Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

CHAPTER TWENTY
I received a letter with some questions which may be of
universal interest. One question is about cats and karma. Well,
cats have a different sort of karma from humans, because they
are exempt from many of the karmic influences through being
‘the eyes of the Gods’. That is, a cat is an entirely strange
creature placed down on this earth to report on things, to act
as—let us say—remote television cameras, so that the Gar-
deners of the Earth know what's going on, and sometimes they
have to do a thing which normally would incur karma, but in
this particular instance the karma is annulled because they are
working for the Gods.
Another matter which seems to puzzle people immensely is
reincarnation. Now, humans never become animals—but of
course humans are animals, aren't they, but let's call them
humans instead—and animals never become humans. People
have the idea that humans are the Gods on earth, whereas
animals are just creatures there to be kicked around as the
humans feel like doing. That is completely wrong—humans
and animals can be of equal value in the higher community
beyond the earth, and in some conditions an animal may be
much more valuable to the Gardeners of the Earth than a
human; it depends on the circumstances, but never think that
an animal is going to be ‘elevated’ to human status. The
animal might think that would be a down-grading instead.
. Humans commit a grave, grave crime against the whole of
nature when they use animals for vivisection or experiments.
After all, how absolutely absurd it is for a pharmaceutical
representative to say that his product is worth so many mouse-
units. A mouse isn't a man—and if humans want to experi-
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