Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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which it was planted-up in the astral somewhere.
do the reaping where the sowing has been done.
We
And
we do the sowing, where we expect to reap.
But here some one says, "That law if it does hold good
on all planes is not discernible in many cases." For
example, we often see the young and innocent suffer
and die young, before they have come to the years of
accountability, and the orthodox teachers will tell you
that God's ways are past finding out. But the Christ
said in speaking of his attainments, and of his knowledge
of the workings of God's laws, "These things
shall ye do and greater." If his words are true then we
should know why these laws obtain. Why some apparently
reap what they do not sow, while others sow what
they do not reap, in the face of that decided declaration
of Paul; for if we are to become as Gods, it will never
be from blind faith only, but because we understand
God's
laws.
But this question of reaping and sowing can never be
decided by the orthodox views.
The question, "Did this
man sin or his parents that he was born blind?" implies
that the questioners understood that the man had lived
before, for how could a man sin before he was born, and
the fact that the Christ answered the question as a
rational one shows that he believed both in reincarnation
and karma. And the answer shows that not the present
man as he stood before them blind, but the man of a
previous incarnation had sowed the seed of blindness on
the earth, and on the earth must that seed be reaped, in
order that the works of God might be made manifest,-
that the cause and the effect both might be made manifest
on the earth.
One
need never fear that there can be any mistake
made on the spirit-side, for God's laws are immutable.
There is no kind of business on the earth that one can