THE ONE.

Quite naturally, your intellect has taken it for granted that nothing can be "uncaused"—that nothing can exist without a preceding cause. And the intellect is perfectly correct as far as "things" are concerned, for all things are relative and are therefore caused. But behind all caused things must lie THAT which is the Great Cause of All Things original: "Great Causer of Things". Because this is not a "thing" itself, it cannot have been caused; it cannot be the effect of a preceding cause.

Your minds struggle when you try to form a mental image of something that has had no cause, because you have had no experience with such a concept in the world of the senses original: "sense world". Therefore, you fail to form the image. It is outside of your experience, and you cannot create a mental picture of it. Yet, your mind is forced to believe that there must have been an Original One that could not have had a cause. This is a difficult task for the intellect, but in time, it comes to see exactly where the trouble lies and stops raising objections to the voice of the higher parts of the self.

The intellect experiences a similar difficulty when it tries to think of the Eternal—that which is above and outside of Time. We see time in operation everywhere and take it for granted that time is a reality—an actual, objective thing. But this is a mistake of the senses. In reality, there is no such thing as time. Time exists solely in our minds. It is merely a form of perception by which we express our awareness of the Change in Things.

We cannot think of time except in connection with a succession of changes of things within our consciousness.