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This Mystery of Existence HAVE you
ever asked yourself why there is this universe at all, at least this earth with
which we are so much concerned and which seems to us so real, so authentic? It
would perhaps be very wise on your part if you did not! I have often spoken to
you of Theon. He was truly a sage in his own way. People used to come to him
and ask questions. Many asked why there was a universe. He would answer,
"But what is that to you?" Some would ask, "Why is the universe
like this?" To that ht would say, "It is what it is, how does it matter?" Others again would remark, "I do
not consider the world a satisfactory affair." There, we begin to come more
to the point. To those who find the world unsatisfactory I would say, "Get
to work, try to change it. Find a way that it may be otherwise, that it may be
made better." Things are what they are, it is no
use speculating over that and getting worried. Seek for the means of remedy, so
that things may be made what they should be. Why are things what they are? Not that one cannot know the reason, although one may not always be
sure of it. The best thing to do is to take whatever is as it is and try
to change it towards that which it ought to be. Now the wonder of it is that if
you are sincere, if you want to know sincerely and work sincerely, you will
come to know why things are what they are – the cause, the origin and the
process, for they are all one. There is one truth at the base of things; if
that were not there, nothing would be. If you seize that truth, you seize at
the same time the origin of the creation and the means of changing it as well.
In other words, if you are in contact with the Divine – for the Divine is that
base – you are in possession of the key to all things, you know the why, the
how and the process for change. One thing to do then is to start doing the
thing.
Page – 309 But you
might say, it is too much, too difficult, too big for you – to work in the
world or for the world. Well then, start with yourself. You are a little mass
of substance, a symbol or representative of the universe. Let your work then be
to form and refashion that particle. Concentrate upon it, go within – even
within that little person of yourself you will find the long looked-for key.
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