Random Bibliomancy Reading with The Kybalion
This oracle points to a randomly selected passage from one of the books in our bibliomancy library. You have randomly pulled The Kybalion off the shelf. The text near your passage is included below for context.
Your line is from CHAPTER XII - CAUSATION.
This is the operation of the law of average.
For context:
CHAPTER XII - CAUSATION
But when the matter is closely examined, it is seen that there is no chance whatsoever about the fall of the dice.
Each time a die falls, and displays a certain number, it obeys a law as infallible as that which governs the revolution of the planets around the sun.
Back of the fall of the die are causes, or chains of causes, running back further than the mind can follow.
The position of the die in the box; the amount of muscular energy expended in the throw; the condition of the table, etc., etc., all are causes, the effect of which may be seen.
But back of these seen causes there are chains of unseen preceding causes, all of which had a bearing upon the number of the die which fell uppermost.
If a die be cast a great number of times, it will be found that the numbers shown will be about equal, that is, there will be an equal number of one-spot, two-spot, etc., coming uppermost.
Toss a penny in the air, and it may come down either "heads" or "tails"; but make a sufficient number of tosses, and the heads and tails will about even up.
This is the operation of the law of average.
But both the average and the single toss come under the Law of Cause and Effect, and if we were able to examine into the preceding causes, it would be clearly seen that it was simply impossible for the die to fall other than it did, under the same circumstances and at the same time.
Given the same causes, the same results will follow.
There is always a "cause" and a "because" to every event.
Nothing ever "happens" without a cause, or rather a chain of causes.
Some confusion has arisen in the minds of persons considering this Principle, from the fact that they were unable to explain how one thing could cause another thing--that is, be the "creator" of the second thing.
As a matter of fact, no "thing" ever causes or "creates" another "thing."
Cause and Effect deals merely with "events."
