Book Title: Study in Karma Author(s): Annie Besant Publisher: Theosophist Office AdyarPage 30
________________ 19 only successive impressions from the parts travelled over. By simile, by analogy, we may gain some idea of the difference of a universe as it appears to the LOGOS and as it appears to us. To Him, a single impression, a perfect whole; to us an immense sequence, slowly unfolding. So what is to Him inter-relation becomes to us succession. Instead of seeing childhood, youth, old age as a whole, we see them successively, day by day, year by year. That which is simultaneous and universal becomes successive and particular to our small minds, crawling over the world as the ant over the picture. Go up a mountain and look down on a town; and you can see how the houses are related to each other in blocks, streets, and so on. You realise them as a whole. But when you go down into the town you must pass from street to street, seeing each SUCCESSIONPage Navigation
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