An exceedingly interesting branch of theosophical study, and one dealing with a“The Sanskrit prefix ‘A’ means ‘not’, the negative… More fact which is so obviously manifest in the worlds surrounding us that its existence can hardly be denied, except by the willfully blind, is what may be called the law of cycles, or nature’s repetitive operations.
We find nature repeating herself everywhere, although such repetition of course is not merely a“The Sanskrit prefix ‘A’ means ‘not’, the negative… More running in the same old ruts on each recurrence of the cyclic activity; for each recurrence is of course the expression of a“The Sanskrit prefix ‘A’ means ‘not’, the negative… More modification, more or less great, of what has preceded. Day succeeds night, winter succeeds summer, the planets circulate around the suns in regular and periodical courses; and these are but familiar examples of cyclical activity.

Cycles in nature show the time periods of periodic recurrence along and in which any evolving entity or thing expresses the energies and powers which are itself, so that cycles and evolution are like the two sides of a“The Sanskrit prefix ‘A’ means ‘not’, the negative… More coin: the one shows the time periods or cycles, and the other side manifests the energic or substantial qualities appearing in manifestation according to these cyclical time-periods; but back of this apparently double but actually single process always
lie profound karmic causes.