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THE LAWS OF NATURE
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and then only, can we rightly assert causation. The links between phenomena that are never broken, and that are recognised by the reason as an active relation, bringing into manifestation the second phenomenon whenever the first is manifested, we call causation. · They are the shadows of inter-relations existing in the Eternal, outside space and time, and they extend over the life of a universe, wherever the conditions exist for their manifestation. Causation is an expression of the nature of the LOGOS, an Emanation of the eternal Reality; wherever there is inter-relation in the Eternal which demands succession for its manifestation in time, there is causation.
THE LAWS OF NATURE
Our next step in our study is a consideration of the 'Laws of Nature'. The whole universe is included within
