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A STUDY IN KARMA
simultaneously out of time and space in the Eternal now, gradually appears in time and space as successive phenomena. The moment you conceive a universe as made up of phenomena, you are obliged to think of these phenomena, successively, one after another ; but in the thought of the "Eternal they always are, and the limitation of succession has there no existence.
Even in the lower · worlds where the measures of time are so different from each other, we catch a glimpse of the increasing limitations of denser matter. Mozart tells us of a state of consciousness in which he received a musical composition as a single impression, although in his waking consciousness he could only reproduce that single impression in a succession of notes. Or again, we may look at a picture, and receive a single mental impression-a landscape, a battle; but an ant, crawling over that picture, would see no whole,
