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And why? Because the Gods have made Time as a circular sea around which the island of Reality forever floats; or else, perchance, the river Time meanders in the same round course through the land of Reality, always passing again through the same landscape. The Gods alone know which of these two things it is.
As the whole then bears the impress of this foible of the Gods, each part will bear it also, thus flashing back in myriad ways the great original plan. System, star, planet and satellite move there in ordered paths whose course marks in the trackless heavens the same shape.
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