The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 133

to fall other than it did, under
the same circumstances and at
the same time. Given the same
causes, the same results will
follow. There is always a
"cause" and a "because" to
every event. Nothing ever
"happens" without a cause, or
rather a chain of causes.
Some confusion has arisen in
the minds of persons
considering this Principle,
from the fact that they were
unable to explain how one
thing could cause another
thing, that is, be the "creator"
of the second thing. As a
matter of fact, no "thing" ever
causes or "creates" another
"thing." Cause and Effect deals
merely with "events." An
"event" is "that which comes,
arrives or happens, as a result
or consequent of some
preceding event." No event
"creates" another event, but is
merely a preceding link in the
great orderly chain of events
flowing from the creative
energy of THE ALL.
There is a continuity between
all events precedent,
consequent and subsequent.
There is a relation existing
between everything that has

gone before and everything
that follows.
A stone is dislodged from a
mountain side and crashes
through a roof of a cottage in
the valley below.
At first sight we regard this as
a chance effect, but when we
examine the matter we find a
great chain of causes behind
it. In the first place there was
the rain which softened the
earth supporting the stone and
which allowed it to fall; then
back of that was the influence
of the sun, other rains, etc,
which gradually disintegrated
the piece of rock from a larger
piece, then there were the
causes which led to the
formation of the mountain and
its upheaval by convulsions of
nature and so on ad infinitum.
Then we might follow up the
causes behind the rain, etc.
Then we might consider the
existence of the roof In short,
we would soon find ourselves
involved in a mesh of cause
and effect from which we
would soon strive to extricate
ourselves.
Just as a man has two parents
and four grandparents and
eight great-grandparents and