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The First Cause, which is God’s karma (the ''ca''use of the ''r''ay in ''ma''nifestation) is the descent of the soul with free will. Under that First Cause, obedient to that will, imbued with that wisdom, filled with that Holy-Spirit love, we can manifest God-mastery. Disobedient to it, entering the ignore-ance of the Law and the anti-love synthesis, we set up secondary causes. | The First Cause, which is God’s karma (the ''ca''use of the ''r''ay in ''ma''nifestation) is the descent of the soul with free will. Under that First Cause, obedient to that will, imbued with that wisdom, filled with that Holy-Spirit love, we can manifest God-mastery. Disobedient to it, entering the ignore-ance of the Law and the anti-love synthesis, we set up secondary causes. | ||
Secondary causes are temporarily real. They are real because we sustain them by free will, but they are unreal in the absolute sense and therefore we do not give them power, wisdom or love. We do not feed them energy. We cut them from the vine of life and we put them into the fiery furnace where the tares belong. | Secondary causes are temporarily real. They are real because we sustain them by free will, but they are unreal in the absolute sense and therefore we do not give them [[Power, wisdom and love|power, wisdom or love]]. We do not feed them energy. We cut them from the vine of life and we put them into the fiery furnace where the tares belong. | ||
What is true of the individual is true of civilization. There is First Cause: [[Golden age|golden-age civilizations]], golden-age God-government and economy. There are secondary cause-effect sequences: the karma of society and civilization that is not founded upon the Rock of Christ. | What is true of the individual is true of civilization. There is First Cause: [[Golden age|golden-age civilizations]], golden-age God-government and economy. There are secondary cause-effect sequences: the karma of society and civilization that is not founded upon the Rock of Christ. | ||