What best describes cause and effect?

God does not stand between anyone and joy and peace and happiness, but the evil has been given such licence by the disregarding of His laws during the many centuries of time, which have elapsed that the plans of Love are seriously maltreated before His will is done.

I know to the majority, it sounds curious that evil should have this power, and yet just think for one minute. 

Take the average person, the ordinary, so-called good person, and you will find that even they contribute something to the side of weakness—something, which has to be fought against and overcome, not only by themselves, but by others.

It is by the thought that so much damage is done. 

It is as if a tiny stone obstructed the path of the pilgrims on their way to the better land. And each one—or nearly each one in passing leaves a thought of regret, of rebellion or perhaps of sadness. And on that site is added many other small stones, some so tiny that you would think they were of no importance at all, but collectively, they hang together, and in time to come, instead of a small hillock, which can be stepped over without a second's hesitation, there is a column of stone immovable, which has to be passed one way or another. 

And the path is narrow.

You see how it all happens. 

You cannot lay the blame on this or that generation, far less on this or that person. 

Unconsciously, influenced by what you see with your physical eyes, thoughts are put into action and these thoughts have such power that they become tangible, definite things, which have got to be reckoned with by all who wish to climb.

I just explain this to you because I do want you to try and understand that it is all cause and effect, stretching away back over the centuries and you individually have not only to fight your own thoughts, but in reality are up against the countless thousands, which have been left behind by others. 

And here you get the dangerous element with those who are what you call highly strung or oversensitive. 

You get the signal of danger here because of necessity, no individual can be sensitive to one set of vibrations without responding equally to others of a less favourable kind. 

It can be done, of course. 

When you get a little further on, you are able to shut yourself up in the cabin of the spirit, inside which nothing of the material world can penetrate. But it all takes time.

I want you to try and look at things in an unbiased way. 

You have got to reckon, not only with present conditions, with the power of the shadows, which power is enhanced by your own thoughts, but also, you have got to reckon with all that has gone before. 

And to the uninitiated, it sounds so hopeless a task—so stupendous, so utterly beyond human effort that hope sinks very low indeed.

Do you see you have got away from the simple into the complicated, and the complicated is not only difficult to understand, but very hard to grapple with in a physical sense as well. 

I led you on in imagination because I wanted to show you how easy it is to get off the straight and sunlit path into the mazes of the wood, which lie on either side.

I want you to try and understand that it is all cause and effect.

—Zodiac, the Christ Messenger