would be enough to stagger the imagination were it not for our old friends, the Law and the Word. But these will always accompany us, and we may rely upon them in all worlds and under all conditions.

The Law of Continuity

This Law of Unity is what in natural science is known as the Law of Continuity, and the Ancient Wisdom has embodied it in the Hermetic Axiom Sicut superius, sicut inferius; sicut inferius, sicut superius --- "As above, so below; as below, so above". It leads us on from stage to stage, unfolding as it goes; and to this unfolding there is no end, for it is the Eternal Life finding ever fuller expression as it can find more and more suitable channels through which to express itself. It can no more come to an end than numbers can come to an end.

But it must find suitable channels. Let there be no mistake about this. Perhaps someone may say: Cannot it make suitable channels for any sort of expression that it needs? The answer is that it can, and it does so up to a certain point. As we have seen, the Word, Thought, or Initial Impulse of the Ever-Living Spirit starts a centre of cosmic activity in which the mathematical element of Law at once asserts itself; thenceforward everything