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SUCCESSION
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The inviolability of natural law rests on its universality, and a breach of law in any part would mean universal chaos.
SuccESSION
We have seen that as the manifestation of a universe implies succession of phenomena, so the universal interrelation becomes the sequence of cause and effect. But each effect becomes in turn a cause, and so on endlessly, the difference between cause and effect not being one of nature but of relation. The inter-relations which exist in the thought of the Eternal become the inter-relations between phenomena in the manifested universe--the portion of the thought put forth as a universe. Before the manifestation of any special universe, there will be, in the Eternal, the thought of the universe which is to be, and its inter-relations. That which exists
