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The Eleventh Lesson: The Law of Karma.877
The Eleventh Lesson: The Law of Karma.
arma” is a Sanscrit term for that great Law known to Western thinkers
“K as Spiritual Cause and Effect, or Causation. It relates to the complicated
affinities for either good or evil that have been acquired by the soul
throughout its many incarnations. These affinities manifest as characteristics
enduring from one incarnation to another, being added to here, softened or
altered there, but always pressing forward for expression and manifestation.
And, so, it follows that what each one of us is in this life depends upon is
what we have been and how we have acted in our past lives.
Throughout the operations of the Law of Karma the manifestation of
Perfect Justice is apparent. We are not punished for our sins, as the current
beliefs have it, but instead we are punished by our sins. We are not rewarded
for our good acts, but we received our reward through and by characteristics,
qualities, affinities, etc., acquired by reason of our having performed these
good acts in previous lives. We are our own judges and executioners. In
our present lives we are storing up good or bad Karma which will stick to
us closely, and which will demand expression and manifestation in lives to
come. When we fasten around ourselves the evil of bad Karma, we have
taken to shelter a monster which will gnaw into our very vitals until we shake
him off by developing opposite qualities. And when we draw to ourselves