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A VIEW OF A diF F THEOS- THEOS O JY This ThU It Ii the New Kew Religion ReUlon That bat at Ii Ja Real Real- ly 17 Old Old Lived Up to It Would Like All AU Others Earth Into Into a fleaven- fleaven Karma Is a Sanskrit word meaning mean mean- ing lug action whether of thought word or deed Since there are no straight lines Unes In nature every force tends to o return to Its projector Once this law lawIs lawIs lawis is recognized we begin to see the philos philosophy phil phil- os phY underlying that homely adage Curses like Uke chickens come home homo to roost For 1900 years we In the western western west west- ern era world have heard As a man sows saws so shall he reap yet while glibly re reciting reciting reciting re- re citing this we ve sow Canada thistles and then rail at fate because we do not reap California peaches Why Simply Simply Simply Sim Sim- ply because the philosophy underlying this is not understood We Wo fail fall to see in man the master of the cause but the slave of the effect Nature is conquered by obedience to Its Us laws Help Nature and work on with her lier and Nature will regard thee as one of her creatures and will make obeisance obeisance obel- obel sance says the Voice of Silence Karma then is the law which adjusts adjusts adjusts ad ad- justs effects to causes on all planes It ItIs Itis Itis is the ultimate law of the universe In connection with the law of rebirths reincarnation reincarnation-It it explains explaIn the the problems problems lems loins which now are vexing us It ex explains explains explains ex- ex plains the unequal distribution of capItal capItal capital cap cap- ital and labor the distinction of class in society of sex in the affairs of life the apparent injustice of birth one birth one man born horn in a hovel another in a palace one an Imbecile ImbecHe another with witha a vigorous healthy intellect one reaching reaching- the age of fourscore and ten in peace and plenty the other cut offIn off offIn offin In his prime by a violent or accidental tal death All that is due to Karma Karma Karma Kar Kar- ma either racial national or ual Man In his efforts toward the expansion expansion ex ex- of self-consciousness self throws himself out of harmony with cosmic law the result of the discord being what we call pain and suffering So he learns that law has been disregarded disregard disregard- ed and the ultimate result is obedience obedience obedience obedi obedi- ence to law the tendency ever being to restore equilibrium The two doctrines which modern Christianity lacks but which Jesus t taught are reincarnation and Karma the one depending on the other There is no mistaking the words of Christ Christi With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again Another passage teaching both doctrines I is found in Matthew v. v 26 Verily I say unto thee thou shall by no means come out of thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing implying the Karmic ties that draw the soul back to rebirth In Matthew xi 14 the statement is made clearly If ye will receive it this is Elias Ellas which was for forto forto forto to come a positive declaration that Elias Ellas had incarnated in John the Baptist Baptist Bap Bap- When the disciples asked why it was said that Elias Ellas would come before before before be be- fore the Messiah His answer was was- Elias Ellas shall truly come first and restore restore restore re re- re- re store all aU things but I say unto you that Elias is come already and they knew it not When the doctrine of reincarnation was stamped as a heresy at a general council held by the early church after the reign of mental and spiritual darkness darkness darkness dark dark- ness had set in that of Karma went also With what measure ye mete it shall shaU be measured to you again gradually became a dead letter in the church the vicarious atonement wrongly Interpreted seeming to offer offer offer of of- fer an escape and so we have the vanous various various van vari vari- vari ous schemes to enable man to evade the penalty of his own wrong The doctrine of Karma Karma absolute absolute justice jus jus- tice does tice-does does not appeal to weak natures preferring to shift the responsibility of their misdeeds on to the shoulders of their Creator Creator Creator-an an Idea which appears to theosophists little short of blas bIas phemy Let us now take up the law of Karma Karma Karma Kar Kar- ma and try If possible to see how it works Science now acknowledges that thought precedes action that no action is possible without the thought or motive power behind It therefore thoughts are of the most mast Importance Let us analyze this a little ittle Suppose we take a mind with no past activities with nothing to hinder Its perfect freedom freedom freedom free free- dom an Impossibility which some of our scientific psychologists assume Suppose such a mind to evolve a thought This thought repeated many times becomes a habit of mind so that It runs automatically into this particular mold Suppose the growing growing grow grow- ing lug mind now disapproves of this particular particular particular par par- form of thought or thought form form finds finds It a hindrance The will willby willby willby by repeated efforts can change thi this mental tendency and direct the thoughts into other channels Re- Re Repeated Re lIe covetous desires will crystallize into thefts when the opportunity comes Thoughts directed toward helping humanity will crystallize Into deeds of unexpected heroism How often we hear it said If I had stopped to think I should not have done it It The saturated mental solution needed only the additional crystal to solidify solidity Into action As long a as we have the power to stop and think we have not yet reached the danger line we weare weare weare are still master of the cause The liability to stop and think on the theother theother the theother other hand shows that we have become become become be be- come the slave of the effect Thus we find that the mind forges the fetter and wears it and that while wearing it it can file le through it by repeated efforts of the will Here we have an instance of a n small Karmic cycle rt j Further analysis reveals th the fact filet that as repeated repented thoughts become tendencies ten tea so painful experiences become conscious and experiences in the aggregate aggregate aggregate gate become wisdom character t then en being the result of ot the tho aggregate t f mental Images Now we we vre begin to re realize realize Ye- Ye alize the value of right night thinking a point theosophy emphasizes and to see why it is that he ho who succeeds In raising the Ideals of a nation Is its greatest helper We begin also to see seethe seethe seethe the scientific basis of the much and little understood proverb As a aman aman aman man in his heart so is he Our Oriental brother expresses the same ideal Man Is a creature of re re- re- re He lie becomes that upon which he ho reflects Therefore reflect upon Brahma Herbert Spencer puts the same thought into this form Hainan Ilaman Ha Il man inan beings are at the mercy of their associated ideas So after all we see in the law of Karma nothing new new just just what Jesus said With what measure ye mete it shall be m measured to you again but again but the thought gains strength and new beauty In the light thrown upon it Cythe oy Cy oythe oythe the wisdom-religion wisdom theosophy K C. 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