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THE ETERNAL NOW
into his mind, until it becomes an ever-present part of his mental equipment, and then the universes on the circumference become intelligible, and the universal inter-relation between all things seen from the simultaneity of the centre naturally becomes. cause and effect in the successions on the circumference, It has been said that the Eternal' is as an ocean, which throws up universes .as waves. The ocean symbolises being without form, ever the same. The wave, by virtue of being a part, has form and attributes. The waves rise and fall; they break into foam, and the spray of the waves is as worlds in a universe.
Or we may think of a huge waterfall, like Niagara, where the mass of its torrent is one ere it falls, and then it divides into innumerable drops, which separately reflect the light; and the
i The Hindu name is Brahman, or, more strictly, Nirguna Brahman, the Brahman without attributes,
