Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 494
A GAME OF CHESS. OR A GAME OF CHANCE! 'The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes. But Here or There as strikes the Player goes;. And He that toss'd you down into the Field,. He knows about it all—HE knows — HE knows!'' 'But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays. Upon this Chequer-board of Night and Days;. Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,. And one by one back in the Closet lays. , 2. ISUALIZE the drama of life and death as staged, act by act, from the beginning of evolution to the present time. As the curtain lifts, does it lift from the vision of a mindless universe endlessly engaged in the casting of dice, or does it lift from a completely different scenario? The drama, it should be noted, remains the same, as also the actors who play their part. The vision alters only in relation to the viewer. If the viewer sees it through the coloured glass of deep-seated, preconceived, atheistic prejudices then of course he will view nothing but chaos wedded to chaos, giving birth to a brood of meticulously shaped and well-disciplined offspring. This happens generation after generation after generation. Each generation invariably recedes yet again into a world of utter chaos, continuously giving birth to order and discipline without exception, without fail. So the drama of evolution moves on from chaos to order without an orderly disciplined mind to command it. Despite this, however, order always emerges out of disorder, until man 469