Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. NATURE'S POTENTIALITIES. (Illustrated) Plate No. 1 displays a monogram of Nature's Invisible Forces. It represents the Laws, or Principles of Nature as nearly as art can describe them. Each Law is distinct in itself, but ineffectual except as it functions co-jointly with other Laws whereupon they become the cosmic forces of creation. The Laws are fundamental basic potentialities. They are measureless, limitless functions without beginning and without ending. They in fact are the embodiment of their own dimension— the base and encompassment of all creation. They are not THINGS, but the Principles through which all THINGS come into being. Although fixed and motionless they are the source of Energy, States and Planes, measures of Action, Character and Form. In other words, they are the source and base of the Eternal Process from which and through which we (all THINGS) live, move and have our being. First, in order to exist we must consume Time, and although ever so small, must consume Space. In order to do either we must express the Law of Consumination, which is continually consuming without annihilating. To exist we must cross the Numerical bar, be numbered, C 0 N S U M I NAT I 0 N Plate No. 1. registered, characterized and materialized. Thus we are embraced by the Law of Affinity and drawn to the plane of our own activity. To act we express in Time and Space, over the Numerical Law in compound addition and thus embrace the Law of Evolution. Having come into being, our inherent quality is expressed by energy expended and resistance overcome, and we become qualified under the Law of Compensation. Every Character is a matrix or mold through which Nature's Invisible Forces press continually the endless variety of Things we behold. phich, upon the...