September 5: A person's power is limited to

A person's power is limited to, and their blessedness or misery is determined by, their own conduct. Life may be likened to a sum in arithmetic. It is bewilderingly difficult and complex to the pupil who has not yet grasped the key to its correct solution, but once this is perceived and laid hold of, it becomes as astonishingly simple as it was formerly profoundly perplexing.

Some idea of this relative simplicity and complexity of life may be grasped by fully recognising and realising that, while there are scores, and perhaps hundreds, of ways in which a sum may be done wrong, there is only one way by which it can be done right, and that when the right way is found, the pupil knows it to be right; their perplexity vanishes, and they know that they have mastered the problem.

In life there can be no falsifying of results; the eye of the Great Law reveals and exposes.