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that law is possible only within this conditioned · universe; 'beyond that there cannot be any law.
When we speak of this universe; we only mean that portion of existence which is limited by our mind; the universe of the senses, that which we can see, feel, touch, hear, think of, imagine ; that universe alone is under law; but, beyond that, existence cannot be subject to law, because causation does not extend beyond the world of our minds. · Anything beyond the range of our mind and our senses is not bound by the law of causation, as there is no mental association of things in the region beyond the senses, and no causation without association of ideas. It is only when “ being" or existence gets moulded into name and form that it obeys the law of causation, and is said to be under law; because all law has its 'essence in causation. Therefore, we see at
once that there cannot be any such thing as free · will; the very words are a contradiction, because
will is" what we know, and everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within
