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the Universe, as interpreted by our Physical Ego, we find 

 phenomena ranging themselves under the form of positive and 

 negative, the Eeal and the Unreal. 



The Good ... making manifest its negative ... the Evil. 



but the negatives have no real existence. As in the case of 

 Light we see that the shadow is only the absence of light, so the 

 negative of Goodness, i.e., Evil, may in reality be looked upon 

 as folly or wasting of opportunity for exercising the Good, but 

 owing to their limitations our thoughts are based upon 

 relativity, and it is hardly thinkable that we could, under our 

 present conditions, have any cognizance of the positive without 

 its negative, and it is therefore by the examining of the 

 Physical, the negative or shadow, that we can best gain a 

 knowledge of the Spiritual, the positive or real. 



It is between the Spiritual and the Physical, the Eeal and 

 its Image, Good and Evil, the Knowledge and Ignorance of the 

 Good, Beautiful and True, that Freewill has to choose. Let us 

 try to get a clearer understanding of this, First let us clearly 

 recognize that it is not we (the Physical Egos) who are looking 

 out upon N'ature, but that it is the Keality or Spiritual which 

 is ever trying to enter and come into touch with us through 

 our senses, and is persistently trying to waken within us 

 the sublimest truths ; it is difficult to realize this as from 

 infancy we have been accustomed to confine our attention 

 wholly upon the objective, believing that to be the reality ; 

 in the sense of Sight we have no knowledge of the only 

 impression made upon our bodies, namely the image itself 

 formed upon our retina, nor have we any cognizance of the 

 separate Electro-magnetic rills which, reflected from all parts 

 of the object, fall upon the eye at different angles constituting 

 form, and at different frequencies giving colours to tliat image ; 

 that image is only formed when we turn our eyes in the right 

 direction to allow those rills to enter, whereas those rills are 

 incessantly beating on the outside of our sense organ, when the 

 eyelid is closed, and can make no image on the retina, unless 

 we allow them to enter by raising that shutter ; it is not then 

 any volition from within that goes out to seize upon and grasp 

 the truths of Nature, but the phenomena are, as it were, forcing 



The Beautiful 

 The True ... 



.. the Ugly. 

 . the False. 

 . Ignorance. 

 . Darkness. 

 Cold. 



Knowledge... 



Light 

 Heat 



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