Divine Grace

[Stranger]

The confusion in the above has to do with its ignorance of the existence of higher and lower laws. As Patrick and I have both pointed out, the law of love/forgiveness breaks the cycle of the law of karma, which Laurency mistakenly seems to consider to be absolute and inviolable.

The other, more subtle error in his thought is the idea that the Universe is mechanical and therefore the laws are mechanical. I really do consider this idea of "mechanicity" of the Universe to be the fundamental spiritual fallacy of human beings.

Yes there are laws, but they are created and enforced by Consciousness. In our every thought, impulse and action, we are interacting with a multitude of conscious beings - whether they are parts of ourselves (eg, where do you think your sudden insights and impulses come from?) or external entities. We tend to use the phrases like "I thought that ..." and "The thought occurred to me that ..." interchangeably; and most of the time, the former is actually a false statement, and the latter a true statement.

With the Universe being far more Consciousness than we can imagine, therefore, there is a lot of freedom inherent in how the laws are applied.