""The Law Is." In this Aphorism the word "" denotes "present, actual existence." It is as strong a term denoting actual existence as the English language supplies. ... The word "Is" has the significance of the word "Am" in the following quotation from Exodus, iii. 14, in the Hebrew Sacred Books: "And God said unto Moses, ' That '; and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: hath sent me unto you." This then is the sense in which the Arcane Aphorism employs the term ""—in the sense of Absolute Existence."
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William Walker Atkinson: The Arcane Teaching, ch. 2, "Absolute Law", pp. 15–16. YOGeBooks (2010). ISBN 978‑1‑61183‑088‑0.
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