The Supreme Doctrine - neo-alchemist

LIBERTY AS ‘TOTAL DETERMINISM’
The laws of partial determinism operate only on the concrete plane,
temporal and spatial. Each particular manifestation of these laws operating in
the partial is apparently disordered. This man, for example, has an unhappy
destiny during the whole of his existence, while that other man has a happy
destiny. The partial determinism, operating in appearance; appears to be
unbalanced, unjust, disordered.
The law of total determinism operates not only on the plane of
particular phenomena, but in the universal. We can only conceive this
determinism as perfectly ordered. The totality of positive phenomena is
exactly balanced by the totality of negative phenomena. Each phenomenon is
integrated in a totality in which it is counter-balanced by a phenomenon that
is exactly complementary.
The partial determinism, phenomenal, apparent, visible, disordered, is
not 'real' since it is partial (and there can only be Reality which includes
totality). But the ignorant man takes the visible for the real; also he believes
in the unique reality of this partial determinism; and this is revealed by the
fact that he calls it 'determinism'. Besides, this man has a certain innate
intuition of Reality, that is to say of the Supreme Principle, which he
conceives as endowed, among other attributes, with liberty. Since, for him,
determinism only exists at the partial level, and since he does not conceive
total determinism as operating at the level of the Supreme Principle, he
opposes the only determinism that he knows to the liberty of the Supreme
Principle. Thus he finishes up with the opposition between 'determinism and
liberty'. In reality this opposition is illusory. What is not illusory is the
distinction between 'partial determinism and total determinism', a distinction
which is not at all an opposition, but which expresses two different views,
one at the individual level, the other at the universal level, of one and the
same Causal Reality.
The natural egotistical man desires to be free, unconditioned, while
thinking of himself as a distinct individual. I can envisage myself thus as a
distinct individual, as a psycho-somatic organism, but I ought then to
understand my liberation from partial determinism as a passing-beyond, an
accomplishment of this partial determinism in the total determinism of the
Supreme Principle. When I have attained Realisation my psycho-somatic
organism will no longer be governed only by the apparently disordered laws
of partial determinism but by the total law of universal and cosmic
equilibrium, a law rigorously ordered which is the principle of all the
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