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In The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga, I wrote that the one certain thing about the universe is change. This is because from the moment that Spirit began to go out into seeming time, place, form, relativity, and individual souls, it left behind the infinite stillness of Absolute Being, the motionless Void. The appearances taken could only be fleeting and changing and could only keep this same characteristic until they returned to the still Source. This restlessness was the inevitable consequence of consciousness' becoming immersed in the unconscious, of Reality's becoming the victim of illusion, of the Perfect's becoming shrunk into the imperfection. It can not be content to remain with such limitations. So desire for change begins but is never satisfied, is ever active but is ever changing its objects to new ones.

-- Notebooks Category 26: World-Idea > Chapter 2 : Change As Universal Activity > # 27