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THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN
the relation between God and the world, but the idea of the machine does not figure largely among them. It is a spider and his web, a fire with many sparks, a pool of salt-water in which every particle is penetrated by the salt.
The world is a waking dream, an embodied vision, a mass of knowledge arranged in corporeal appearances expressing so many ideas which are each only a part of one unchanging truth. Everything becomes, nothing is made. Everything is put out from latency, nothing is brought into existence. Only that which was, can be, not that which was not. And that which is, cannot perish ; it can only lose itself. All is eternal in the eternal spirit.
What was from of old ? The Spirit. What is alone ? The Spirit. What shall be for ever? The Spirit. All that is in Space and Time, is He ; and whatever there may be beyond Space and Time, that too is He. Why should we think
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