Excerpt from The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams:
Imagine then, if you can, he said. Imagine that everything which exists takes part in the movement of a great dance - everything - the electrons, all growing and decaying things, all that seems alive and all that doesn't seem alive, men and beasts, trees and stones, everything that changes - and there is nothing anywhere that does not change. That change - that's what we know of the immortal dance; the law in the nature of things - thats the measure of the dance. Why there is seeming accident and incalculable alteration. Why men hate and love and grow hungry, and cities that have stood for centuries fall in a week. Why the smallest wheel and the mightiest world revolve. Why blood flows and the heart beats and the brain moves, why your body is posed on your ankles and the Himalays are rooted in the earth - quick or slow, measureable or immeasureable, there is nothing at all, anywhere, but the dance. Imagine it - see it all at once and in one.
This is all that there is to learn; our happiest science guesses at the steps of a little of it. It's always perfect because it can't be anything else.
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