The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 135

Stop to think a moment. If a
certain man had not met a
certain maid, away back in the
dim period of the Stone Age,
you who are now reading these
lines would not now be here.
And if, perhaps, the same
couple had failed to meet, we
who now write these lines
would not now be here. And
the very act of writing, on our
part and the act of reading, on
yours, will affect not only the
respective lives of yourself
and ourselves, but will also
have a direct, or indirect,
affect upon many other people
now living and who will live in
the ages to come.
Every thought we think, every
act we perform has its direct
and indirect results which fit
into the great chain of Cause
and Effect.
We do not wish to enter into a
consideration of Free Will or
Determinism in this work for
various reasons. Among the
many reasons, is the principal
one that neither side of the
controversy is entirely right-in
fact, both sides are partially
right according to the
Hermetic Teachings.
The Principle of Polarity shows
that both are but Half-Truths

the opposing poles of Truth.
The Teachings are that a man
may be both Free and yet
bound by Necessity,
depending upon the meaning
of the terms and the height of
Truth from which the matter is
examined. The ancient writers
express the matter thus, "The
further the creation is from
the Centre, the more it is
bound, the nearer the Centre it
reaches, the nearer Free is it."