cause and effect...

The world is a complex of countless numbers of connected events.

Consequently no absolute single cause can be strictly assigned to any single event.

From the fact that however far we attempt to trace back to a first cause of the universe,

we find every so called cause itself to have its origin in a preceding cause,

and that the latter is in its turn the effect produced by a previous cause,

it is right and reasonable to infer that there is no beginning in the universe and consequently there can be no end.

This means that the process of ever becoming is an eternal one and is the very law of the universe’s own being.

For no particular thing is a cause alone or an effect alone but must always be both at the same time.



The Wisdom of the Overself, Chapter III, The Birth of the Universe.
Paul Brunton