IDENTICAL CHANGES 



cause of all identical life, shall this, in our concep- 

 tion, lack conscious Identity? 



We may not assign to the infinite either time or 

 place or limitations. We may not determine direc- 

 tion or beginning or end. We may not grasp an 

 infinite consciousness with our own limited con- 

 sciousness, for our limits are material limits. 



Is then the mighty play of momentum in stellar 

 space, in wind and wave and in the still small voice 

 of the growing flower an infinite momentum broken 

 into innumerable pieces, to be reunited or again 

 split up, at the dictates of material identities with 

 occult powers ? 



Or is momentum a mechanical displacement of 

 organized matter, by the power of an unseen dis- 

 placement in void matter? Under this last Hy- 

 pothesis, let the momentum of a pendulum be con- 

 sidered. 



Let B G in figure A represent a pendulum, and 

 for a portion of the string substitute a spring 



ABC 



scale. Then, when the pendulum weight is 

 drawn up to C and released, gravity will tend to 

 draw the weight in the line C D. 



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