A partial analogy may be found in the position of the astronomer with
regard to the stellar universe, or let us say the Milky Way. He can observe
its constituent parts and learn a good deal about them along various lines,
but it is absolutely impossible for him to see it as a whole from outside,
or to form any certain conception of its true shape, and to know what it
really is. Suppose that the universe is, as many of the ancients thought,
some inconceivably vast Being, it is utterly impossible for us, here in the
midst of it, to know what that Being is or is doing, for that would mean
raising ourselves to a height comparable with His; but we may make
extensive and detailed examination of such particles of His body as happen
to be within our reach, for that means only the patient use of powers and
machinery already at our command.
Let it not be supposed that, in thus unfolding a little more of the wonders
of Divine Truth by pushing our investigations to the very farthest point at
present possible to us, we in any way alter or modify all that has been
written in theosophical books of the shape and constitution of the physical
atom, and of the wonderful and orderly arrangements by which it is grouped
into the various chemical molecules; all this remains entirely unaffected.
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