Theosophy: Introduction to the First Section of the Second Main Level of the Asiatic Brethren

of things.

This answer can be suitably and unhesitatingly presumed for the time being, and we may proceed with the instruction.

Q. But, my dear friend, in the case of a chance of the second kind, could the reduction of things not also be taken into consideration as a sort of accident?

Ans. I will concede this to you as well. But if your insight is sufficiently qualified to penetrate with foresight that, after this concession, in the natural course of the nature

of things only three cases can be established: for either everything must, from its inception, henceforth worsen and hasten toward its end—which must absolutely be annihilation total destruction—or it will indeed not worsen, but also nothing will improve, and it will remain standing where and how chance has cast it, and still casts it in actu in reality; or, 3rd, everything would necessarily have to improve from its inception henceforth.

Let us now dissect these three specified