| BkI:9.IV.2 | Each particle of light, each pure soul, contains in itself the pure potential of divine thought. The part contains the whole. The particle of light is essentially the same as the ray of light that gave it origin, the sun from which it emerged. The drop of crystalline water contains the ocean within itself, because its essence is identical and also different. What is different is still the same and yet not different. This is the audacity, the paradox, of creation—a creation still without planets, Earth, sun, or water. |