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attention will be directed to the circle first, as the generating
figure, and _then_ to the square as a particular mode of expressing the
same area. If we look at it in this way we shall never mistake the
square for the circle, but we shall see that as the circle grows, the
corresponding square will grow with it. It is this dependence of the
square on the circle that makes all the difference, and makes it a
living, growing square. For the true circle represents Infinitude. It is
not bounded by a limiting circumference as in the merely symbolic
geometrical figure, but is rather represented by the impulse which
generates an ever widening circle of electro-magnetic waves; and when we
realize this, our square becomes a living thing. The "Word" that we
speak with this recognition is no longer ours, but His who sent us--the
expression, on the plane of individuality, of the Thought that sent us
into existence and so it is the "Word of Life." This is the true
Resurrection of the Individual.

CHAPTER VIII

TRANSFERRING THE BURDEN

The more we grow into a clear perception of what is really meant by
"Squaring the Circle," the freer we shall find ourselves from the burden
of anxiety. We shall rise to a larger generalization of the Law of Cause
and Effect. We shall learn in all things to reach out to First Cause as
operating through the channels of secondary causation,--"causa causas"
as producing, and therefore controlling "causa causata"--and so we cease
to worry about secondary causes. On the plane of the lower personality
we see certain facts, and argue that they are bound to produce certain
results, which would be quite true if we really saw _all_ the facts; or,
again, allowing that in any particular case we actually did see all the
facts as they now exist, we can either deny the operation of First
Cause, or recognize its infinite capacity for creating new facts.
Therefore, whatever may be the nature of our anxiety, we should
endeavour to dispel it by the consideration that there may be already
existing other facts we do not know of, which will produce a different
result from the one we fear, and that in any case there is a power which
can produce new facts in answer to our appeal to it.

But I can imagine some one saying to us, "You bumptious little midget,
do you think First Cause is going to trouble Itself about you and your
petty concerns? Do you not know that First Cause works by universal Law,
and makes no