"One link in a chain explains the infinite chain."
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"Everything has a cause."
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"As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form."
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"Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation."
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"All law has its essence in causation."
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"There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future."
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"The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form"
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"The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects."
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"The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause."
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"The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result."
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"Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing."
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"All is bound by the law of causation"
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"What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state."
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"And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature."
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"This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness."
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"The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion."
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"It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world."
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"Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced."
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"No effect of work can be eternal."
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"Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form."
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