Chapter 1316

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The cry of despair uttered by Count de Montlosier, in his Mystères de la Vie Humaine (p. 117), is a warrant that the Cause of “excellence and goodness,” supposed by Plato to pervade the Universe is neither his Deity, nor our World. “Au spectacle de tant de grandeur opposé à celui de tant de misère, l’esprit qui se met à observer ce vaste ensemble, se represente je ne sais quelle grande divinité, qu’ une divinité, plus grande et plus pressante encore, aurait comme brisée et mise en pièces en dispersant les débris dans tout l’Univers.” The “still greater and still more exacting divinity” than the God of this world, supposed to be so “good”—is Karma. And this true Divinity shows well that the lesser one, our inner God (personal for the time being), has no power to arrest the mighty hand of this greater Deity—the Cause awakened by our actions generating smaller causes—which is called the Law of Retribution.