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spectators, or the readers, who would regard themselves as
different from the actors; and the actors too would regard
themselves as different from the spectators and readers, and
also from each other, and also from the characters whose parts
they were playing. That the play is being enacted 'outside*
Me, and is not all within Me, is the Illusion necessitated by
the 'limitation5 of the This.(1) »

CHAPTER IV
The Story of LiU

[NOTE :—The very instructive, but also at times very
obscure, story, which is here given,, can scarcely be followed
without a few hints.

First, it must be understood that a 'uni verse* exists
only in relation to those who belong- to it, i. d., to those who,
being formed of the same materials as itself, are able to
respond to the vibrations of which it consists. To them the
universe is 'existent' and has 'form.' To all others it is
'non-existent' and 'formless.' Universes interpenetrate
each other, but each is 'enclosed' from all others by virtue of
the limitations of the percipient beings belonging to them.
As all of the physical universe that a man perceives is enclosed
in the small space of his eye, so is the whole physical
universe enclosed within the eye of percipiency common to
all conciousness related to it. The universe of the astral
plane exists and has form for the inhabitants of that plane ;

"to them the universes of the physical and mental planes
are non-existent and formless. So with each plane in relation
to the others. By the highly developed inhabitant of the

(1) See The Science of Pea'ce or The Science of the Self; and the illus-
trations given on pp. 836-842, 374 of The Science of Peace and pp. 411-413
of World War and Its Only Cure—World Order and Keligion.
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