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  Speaker 1: Preface and section one of Karma by Annie Bessant. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Karma by Annie Bessant. Preface. Few words
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  Speaker 1: are needed in sending this little book out into the world.
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  Speaker 1: It is the fourth of a series of manuals designed
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  Speaker 1: to meet the public demand for a simple exposition of
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  Speaker 1: Theosophical teachings. Some have complained that our literature is at
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  Speaker 1: once too abstruse, too technical, and too expensive for the
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  Speaker 1: ordinary reader, and it is our hope that the present
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  Speaker 1: series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want.
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  Speaker 1: Theosophy is not only for the learned, it is for all.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps among those who, in these little books catch their
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  Speaker 1: first glimpse of its teachings, there may be a few
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  Speaker 1: who will be led by them to penetrate more deeply
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  Speaker 1: into its philosophy, its science, and its religion. Facing its
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  Speaker 1: abstruser problems with the students zeal and the neophyte's ardor
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  Speaker 1: But these manuals are not written for the eager student,
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  Speaker 1: whom no initial difficulties can daunt. They are written for
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  Speaker 1: the busy men and women of the workaday world, and
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  Speaker 1: seek to make plains some of the great truths that
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  Speaker 1: render life easier to bear and death easier to face.
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  Speaker 1: Written by servants of the Masters, who are the elder
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  Speaker 1: brothers of our race. They can have no other object
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  Speaker 1: than to serve our fellow men Karma. Every thought of man,
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  Speaker 1: upon being evolved, passes into the inner world and becomes
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  Speaker 1: an active entity. By associating itself coalescing, we might term
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  Speaker 1: it with an elemental that is to say, with one
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  Speaker 1: of the semi intelligent forces of the kingdoms. It survives
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  Speaker 1: as an active intelligence, a creature of the mind, sp
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  Speaker 1: getting for a longer or shorter period proportionate with the
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  Speaker 1: original intensity of the cerebral action which generated it. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: a good thought is perpetuated as an active beneficent power,
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  Speaker 1: an evil one as a moleficent demon. And so man
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  Speaker 1: is continually peopling his current in space with a world
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  Speaker 1: of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses,
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  Speaker 1: and passions. A current which reacts upon any sensitive or
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  Speaker 1: nervous organization which comes in contact with it in proportion
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  Speaker 1: to its dynamic intensity. The Buddhist calls it his skanda.
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  Speaker 1: The Hindu gives it the name of Karma. The adept
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  Speaker 1: evolves these shapes consciously. Other men throw them off unconsciously
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  Speaker 1: from the occult world. Page eighty nine, ninety fourth Edition.
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  Speaker 1: Poor graphic picture of the essential nature of Karma has
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  Speaker 1: ever been given than in these words, taken from one
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  Speaker 1: of the early letters of Master k h. If these
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  Speaker 1: are clearly understood, with all their implications, the perplexities which
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  Speaker 1: surround the subject will for the most part disappear, and
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  Speaker 1: the main principal underlying karmic action will be grasped. They
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  Speaker 1: will therefore be taken as indicating the best line of study,
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  Speaker 1: and we shall begin by considering the creative powers of man.
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  Speaker 1: All we need as preface is a clear conception of
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  Speaker 1: the invariability of law and of the great plains in nature.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one. The invariability of law, that we live in
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  Speaker 1: a realm of law, that we are surrounded by laws
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  Speaker 1: that we cannot break. This is a truism. Yet, when
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  Speaker 1: the fact is recognized in a real and vital way,
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  Speaker 1: and when it is seen to be a fact in
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  Speaker 1: the mental and moral world as much as in the
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  Speaker 1: physical a certain sense of helplessness is apt to overpower us,
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  Speaker 1: as though we felt ourselves in the grip of some
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  Speaker 1: mighty power that, seizing us whirls us away whither it will.
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  Speaker 1: The very reverse of this is, in reality the case,
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  Speaker 1: for the mighty power, when it is understood, will obediently
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  Speaker 1: carry us whither we will. All forces in nature can
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  Speaker 1: be used in proportion as they are understood. Quote. Nature
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  Speaker 1: is conquered by obedience end quote, and her resistless energies
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  Speaker 1: are at our bidding. As soon as we by knowledge
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  Speaker 1: to work with them and not against them. We can
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  Speaker 1: choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve
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  Speaker 1: our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and
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  Speaker 1: their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success. On
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  Speaker 1: the invariability of life, law, depend the security of scientific experiment,
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  Speaker 1: and all power of planning a result and of predicting
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  Speaker 1: the future. On this, the chemist rests sure that nature
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  Speaker 1: will ever respond in the same way. If he be
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  Speaker 1: precise in putting his questions. A variation in his results
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  Speaker 1: is taken by him as implying a change in his procedure,
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  Speaker 1: not a change in nature. And so with all human
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  Speaker 1: action the more it is based on knowledge, the more
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  Speaker 1: secure it is in its forecastings. For all quote, accident
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  Speaker 1: is the result of ignorance and is due to the
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  Speaker 1: working of laws whose presence was unknown or overlooked. In
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  Speaker 1: the mental and moral worlds, as much as in the physical,
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  Speaker 1: results can be foreseen, planned for, calculated on nature never
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  Speaker 1: betrays us. We are betrayed by our own blindness. In
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  Speaker 1: all worlds, increasing knowledge means increasing power, and omniscience and
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  Speaker 1: omnipotence are one That law should be as invariable in
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  Speaker 1: the mental and moral worlds as in the physical is
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  Speaker 1: to be expected, since the universe is the emanation of
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  Speaker 1: the One, and what we call law is but the
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  Speaker 1: expression of the divine nature. As there is one life
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  Speaker 1: emanating all, so there is one law sustaining all the
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  Speaker 1: world's rest on this rock of the divine Nature, as
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  Speaker 1: on a secure, immutable foundation. End of preface and Section one,
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  Speaker 1: Section two of Karma by Annie Bessant. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain the planes of Nature. To
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  Speaker 1: study the workings of Karma on the line suggested by
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  Speaker 1: the Master, we must gain a clear conception of the
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  Speaker 1: three lower place planes or regions of the universe and
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  Speaker 1: of the principles related to them. The names given to
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  Speaker 1: them indicate the state of the consciousness working on them.
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  Speaker 1: In this a diagram may help us, showing the planes
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  Speaker 1: with the principles related to them and the vehicles in
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  Speaker 1: which a conscious entity may visit them. Diagram shashuptik plane principle,
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  Speaker 1: booty vehicle, spiritual body, devachonic plane principle, manas vehicles one
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  Speaker 1: mind body, two causal body, psychic or astral plane principles,
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  Speaker 1: higher psychic comma, manas lower psychic comma vehicle, subtle body,
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  Speaker 1: physical plane principle, linga, sharira stula, sharira vehicle, gross body,
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  Speaker 1: and diagram. In practical occultism, the student learns to visit
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  Speaker 1: these planes and by his own investigations to transform theory
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  Speaker 1: into knowledge. The lowest vehicle, the gross body, serves the
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  Speaker 1: consciousness for its work on the physical plane, and in
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  Speaker 1: this the consciousness is limited within the capacities of the brain.
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  Speaker 1: The term subtle body covers a variety of astrobodies, respectively,
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  Speaker 1: suitable to the varying conditions of the very complicated region
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  Speaker 1: indicated by the name psychic plane. On the deevichonic plane,
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  Speaker 1: there are two well defined levels, the form level and
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  Speaker 1: the formless level. On the lower consciousness uses an artificial body,
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  Speaker 1: the Maya varupa, but the term mind body seems suitable
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  Speaker 1: as indicating that the matter of which it is composed
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  Speaker 1: belongs to the plane of Manas on the formless level,
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  Speaker 1: the causal body must be used of the Buddhic plane.
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  Speaker 1: It is needless to speak now the matter on these
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  Speaker 1: plains is not the same, and speaking generally, the matter
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  Speaker 1: of each plane is denser than that of the one
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  Speaker 1: above it. This is according to the analogy of nature,
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  Speaker 1: for evolution in its downward course, is from rare to dense,
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  Speaker 1: from subtle to gross. Further, vast hierarchies of beings inhabit
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  Speaker 1: these plains, ranging from the lofty intelligences of the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: region to the lowest subconscious elementals of the physical world.
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  Speaker 1: On every plane, spirit and matter are conjoined in every particle,
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  Speaker 1: every particle having matter as its body, spirit as its life,
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  Speaker 1: and all independent aggregations of particles. All separated forms of
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  Speaker 1: every kind of every type are insold by these living beings,
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  Speaker 1: varying in their grade. According to the grade of the form.
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  Speaker 1: No form exists which is not and sold. But the
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  Speaker 1: informing entity may be the loftiest intelligence, the lowest elemental,
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  Speaker 1: or any of the countless hosts that range between. The
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  Speaker 1: entities with which we shall presently be concerned, are chiefly
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  Speaker 1: those of the psychic plane. For these give to man
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  Speaker 1: his body of desire Comma rupa, his body of sensation,
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  Speaker 1: as it is often called, are indeed built into its
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  Speaker 1: astral matrix, and vivify his astral senses. They are, to
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  Speaker 1: use the technical name the form elementals rupa devatas of
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  Speaker 1: the animal world, and are the agents of the changes
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  Speaker 1: which transmute vibrations into sensations. The most salient characteristic of
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  Speaker 1: the comic elementals is sensation, the power of not only
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  Speaker 1: answering to vibrations, but of feeling them. And the psychic
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  Speaker 1: plane is crowded with these entities of varying degrees of consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: who receive impacts of every kind and combine them into sensations.
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  Speaker 1: Any being who possesses, then a body into which these
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  Speaker 1: elementals are built, is capable of feeling, and man feels
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  Speaker 1: through such a body. A man is not conscious in
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  Speaker 1: the particles of his body, or even in its cells.
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  Speaker 1: They have a consciousness of their own, and by this
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  Speaker 1: carry on the various processes of his vegetative life. But
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  Speaker 1: the man whose body they form does not share their consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: does not consciously help or hinder them as they select, assimilate,
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  Speaker 1: secrete builds up, and could not, at any moment so
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  Speaker 1: put his consciousness into rapport with the consciousness of a
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  Speaker 1: cell in his heart as to say exactly what it
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  Speaker 1: was doing. His consciousness functions normally on the psychic plane,
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  Speaker 1: and even in the higher psychic regions where mind is working,
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  Speaker 1: it is mind intermingled with comma pure mind not functioning
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  Speaker 1: on this astroplane. The astraplane is thronged with elementals, similar
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  Speaker 1: to those which enter into the desire body of man,
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  Speaker 1: and which also form the simpler desire body of the
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  Speaker 1: lower animal. By this department of his nature, man comes
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  Speaker 1: into immediate relations with these elementals, and by them he
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  Speaker 1: forms links with all the objects around him that are
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  Speaker 1: either attractive or repulsive to him. By his will, by
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  Speaker 1: his emotions, by his desires, he influences these countless beings,
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  Speaker 1: which sensitively respond to all the thrills of feeling that
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  Speaker 1: he sends out in every direction. His own desire. Body
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  Speaker 1: acts as the apparatus, and just as it combines the
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  Speaker 1: vibrations that come from without into feelings, so does it
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  Speaker 1: dissociate the feelings that arise within into vibrations. End of
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  Speaker 1: Section two Section three of Karma by Annie Bessant. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording in the public domain the generation of thought forms.
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  Speaker 1: We are now in a position to more clearly understand
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  Speaker 1: the master's words. The mind, working in its own region,
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  Speaker 1: in the subtle matter of the higher psychic plane, generates
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  Speaker 1: images thought forms. Imagination has very accurately been called the
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  Speaker 1: creative faculty of the mind, and it is so in
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  Speaker 1: a more literal sense than many may suppose who use
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  Speaker 1: the phrase. This image making capacity is the characteristic power
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  Speaker 1: of the mind, and a word is only a clumsy
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  Speaker 1: attempt to partially represent a mental picture, an idea. A
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  Speaker 1: mental image is a complicated thing and needs perhaps a
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  Speaker 1: whole sentence to describe it accurately. So a salient incident
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  Speaker 1: in it is seized, and the word naming this incident
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  Speaker 1: imperfectly represents the whole. We say, try triangle, and the
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  Speaker 1: word calls up in the hearer's mind a picture which
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  Speaker 1: would need a long description if fully conveyed in words.
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  Speaker 1: We do our best thinking in symbols, and then laboriously
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  Speaker 1: and imperfectly summarize our symbols into words. In regions where
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  Speaker 1: mind speaks to mind, there is perfect expression, far beyond
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  Speaker 1: anything words may convey. Even in thought transference of a
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  Speaker 1: limited kind. It is not words that are sent, but ideas.
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  Speaker 1: A speaker puts into words such part of his mental
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  Speaker 1: pictures as he can, and these words call up in
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  Speaker 1: the hearer's mind pictures corresponding to those in the mind
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  Speaker 1: of the speaker. The mind deals with the pictures, the images,
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  Speaker 1: not with the words, and half the controversies and misunderstandings
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  Speaker 1: that arise come about because people attach different images to
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  Speaker 1: the same words, or use different words to represent the
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  Speaker 1: same images. A thought form, then, is a mental image
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  Speaker 1: created or molded by the mind out of the subtle
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  Speaker 1: matter of the higher psychic plane in which, as above
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  Speaker 1: said it works. This form, composed of the rapidly vibrating
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  Speaker 1: atoms of the matter of that region, sets up vibrations
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  Speaker 1: all around it. These vibrations will give rise to sensations
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  Speaker 1: of sound and color in any entities adapted to translate them. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: and as the thought form passes outward or sinks downward,
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  Speaker 1: whichever expression may be preferred to express the transition into
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  Speaker 1: the denser matter of the lower psychic regions. These vibrations
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  Speaker 1: thrill out as a singing color in every direction and
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  Speaker 1: call to the thought form. Whence they proceed the elementals
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  Speaker 1: belonging to that color. All elementals, like all things else
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  Speaker 1: in the universe, belong to one or other of the
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  Speaker 1: seven primary rays, the seven primeval suns of light. The
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  Speaker 1: white light breaks forth from the third lowe, the manifested
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  Speaker 1: divine mind in the seven rays. The quote seven spirits
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  Speaker 1: that are before the throne end quote. And each of
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  Speaker 1: these rays has its seven subrays, and so onwards insequential subdivisions. Hence,
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  Speaker 1: amid the endless differentiations that make up a universe, there
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  Speaker 1: are elementals belonging to the various subdivisions, and they are
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  Speaker 1: communicated with in a color language grounded on the color
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  Speaker 1: to which they belong. This is why the real knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of sounds and colors and numbers number underlying both sound
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  Speaker 1: and color has ever been so carefully guarded, for the
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  Speaker 1: will speaks to the elementals by these, and knowledge gives
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  Speaker 1: power to control Master K. H. Speaks very plainly on
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  Speaker 1: this color language. He says, quote, how could you make
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  Speaker 1: yourself understood? Command? In fact, those semi intelligent forces whose
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  Speaker 1: means of communicating with us are not through spoken words,
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  Speaker 1: but through sounds and colors, in correlations between the vibrations
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  Speaker 1: of the two. For sound, light and color are the
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  Speaker 1: main factors informing those grades of intelligences, these beings of
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  Speaker 1: whose very existence you have no conception, nor are you
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  Speaker 1: allowed to believe in them. Atheists and Christians, materialists and spiritualists,
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  Speaker 1: all bringing forward their respective arguments against such a belief,
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  Speaker 1: Science objecting stronger than either of these, to such a
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  Speaker 1: degrading superstition. End Occult World, page one hundred. Students of
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  Speaker 1: the past may remember obscure allusions now and again made
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  Speaker 1: to a language of colors. They may recall the fact
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  Speaker 1: that in ancient Egypt, sacred manuscripts were written in colors,
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  Speaker 1: and that mistake made in the copying were punished with death.
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  Speaker 1: But I must not run down this fascinating byway. We
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  Speaker 1: are only concerned with the fact that elementals are addressed
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  Speaker 1: by colors, and that color words are as intelligible to
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  Speaker 1: them as spoken words are to men. The hue of
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  Speaker 1: the singing color depends on the nature of the motive
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  Speaker 1: inspiring the generator of the thought form. If the motive
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  Speaker 1: be pure, loving, beneficent in its character, the color produced
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  Speaker 1: will summon to the thought form an elemental, which will
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  Speaker 1: take on the characteristics impressed on the form by the
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  Speaker 1: motive and act along the line thus traced. This elemental
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  Speaker 1: enters into the thought form, playing to it the part
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  Speaker 1: of a soul, and thus an independent entity is made
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  Speaker 1: in the astral world, an entity of a beneficent character.
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  Speaker 1: If the motive, on the other hand, be impure, revengeful,
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  Speaker 1: moleficent in its character, the color produced will summon to
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  Speaker 1: the thought form an elemental, which will equally take on
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  Speaker 1: the characteristics impressed on the form by the motive and
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  Speaker 1: act along the line thus traced. In this case, also
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  Speaker 1: the elemental enters into the thought form, playing to it
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  Speaker 1: the part of a soul, and thus making an independent
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  Speaker 1: entity in the astral world an entity of a maleficent character.
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  Speaker 1: For example, an angry thought will cause a flash of red,
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  Speaker 1: the thought form vibrating so as to produce red. That
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  Speaker 1: flash of red is a summons to the elementals, and
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  Speaker 1: they sweep in the direction of the summoner, and one
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  Speaker 1: of them enters into the thought form, which gives it
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  Speaker 1: an independent activity of a destructive, disintegrating type. Men are
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  Speaker 1: continually talking in this color language, quite unconsciously, and thus
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  Speaker 1: calling round them these swarms of elementals, who take up
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  Speaker 1: their abodes in the various thought forms provided. Thus it
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  Speaker 1: is that a man peoples his current in space with
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  Speaker 1: a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of
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  Speaker 1: his fancies, desires, impulses and passions, Angels and demons of
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  Speaker 1: our own, creating throng round us on every side, makers
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  Speaker 1: of weal and woe to others, bringers of weal and
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  Speaker 1: woe to ourselves. Verily, a karmic host. Clairvoyance can see
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  Speaker 1: flashes of color constantly changing in the aura that surrounds
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  Speaker 1: every person, each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in
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  Speaker 1: the astral world visible to the astral sight. Persons somewhat
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  Speaker 1: more developed than the ordinary clairvoyant can also see the
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  Speaker 1: thought forms and can see the effects produced by the
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  Speaker 1: flashes of color among the hordes of elementals. End of
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  Speaker 1: section three, Section four of Karma by Antibescent. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain activity of thought forms.
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  Speaker 1: The life period of these insult thought forms depends first
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  Speaker 1: on their initial intensity, on the energy bestowed upon them
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  Speaker 1: by their human progenitor, and secondly on the nutriment supplied
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  Speaker 1: to them after their generation by the repetition of the thought,
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  Speaker 1: either by him or by others. Their life may be
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  Speaker 1: continually reinforced by this repetition, and a thought which is
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  Speaker 1: brooded over which forms the subject of repeated meditation, acquires
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  Speaker 1: great stability of form on the psychic plane. So again,
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  Speaker 1: thought forms of a similar character are attracted to each
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  Speaker 1: other and mutually strengthen each other, making a form of
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  Speaker 1: great energy and intensity active. In this astral world, thought
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  Speaker 1: forms are connected with their progenitor by what, for want
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  Speaker 1: of a better phrase, we must call a magnetic tie.
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  Speaker 1: They react upon him, producing an impression which leads to
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  Speaker 1: their reproduction. And in the case mentioned above, where a
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  Speaker 1: thought form is reinforced by repetition, a very definite habit
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  Speaker 1: of thought may be set up. A mold may be
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  Speaker 1: formed into which thought will readily flow, helpful if it
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  Speaker 1: be of a very lofty character, as a noble ideal,
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  Speaker 1: but for the most part cramping in a hindrance to
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  Speaker 1: mental growth. We may pause for a moment on this
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  Speaker 1: formation of habit, as it shows in miniature in a
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  Speaker 1: very helpful way, the working of karma. Let us suppose
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  Speaker 1: we could take ready made a mind with no past
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  Speaker 1: activity behind it. An impossible thing, of course, but the
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  Speaker 1: supposition will bring out the special point needed. Such a
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  Speaker 1: mind might be imagined to work with perfect freedom and spontaneity,
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  Speaker 1: and to produce a thought form. It proceeds to repeat
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  Speaker 1: this many times until a habit of thought is made
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  Speaker 1: a definite habit, so that the mind will unconsciously slip
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  Speaker 1: into that thought. Its energies will flow into it without
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  Speaker 1: any consciously selective action of the will. Let us further
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  Speaker 1: suppose that the mind comes to disapprove this habit of
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  Speaker 1: thought and finds it a clog on its progress. Originally
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  Speaker 1: due to the spontaneous action of the mind and facilitating
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  Speaker 1: the outpouring of mental energy by providing for it a
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  Speaker 1: ready made channel, it has now become a limitation. But
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  Speaker 1: if it is to be gotten rid of, it can
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  Speaker 1: only be by the renewed spontaneous action of the mind
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  Speaker 1: directed to the exhaustion and final destruction of this living fetter.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Here we have a little ideal karmic cycle rapidly run through.
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  Speaker 1: The free mind makes a habit, and is then obliged
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  Speaker 1: to work within that limitation. But it retains its freedom
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  Speaker 1: within the limitation, and can work against it from within
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  Speaker 1: till it wears it out. Of course, we never find
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  Speaker 1: ourselves initially free, for we come into the world encumbered
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  Speaker 1: with these fetters of our own past making. But the process,
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  Speaker 1: as regards each separate fetter, runs the above round. The
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  Speaker 1: mind forges it, wears it, and while wearing it, can
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  Speaker 1: file it through. Thought forms may also be directed by
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  Speaker 1: their progenitor towards particular persons who may be helped or
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  Speaker 1: injured by them. According to the nature of the insoling elemental,
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  Speaker 1: it is no mere poetic fancy that good wishes, prayers,
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  Speaker 1: and loving thoughts are of value to those to whom
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  Speaker 1: they are sent. They form a protective host, encircling the
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  Speaker 1: beloved and ward off many an evil influence and danger.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Not only does a man generate and send forth his
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  Speaker 1: own thought form, but he also serves as a magnet
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  Speaker 1: to draw towards himself the thought forms of others from
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  Speaker 1: the astroplane around him of the classes to which his
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  Speaker 1: own and sold thought forms belong. He may thus attract
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  Speaker 1: to himself large reinforcements of energy from outside, and it
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  Speaker 1: lies within himself. Whether these forces that he draws into
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  Speaker 1: his own being from the external world shall be of
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  Speaker 1: a good or of an evil kind. If a man's
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are pure and noble, he will attract around him
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  Speaker 1: hosts of beneficent entities, and may sometimes wonder whence comes
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  Speaker 1: to him the power for achievement that seems, and truly
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  Speaker 1: seems to be so much beyond his own. Similarly, a
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  Speaker 1: man of foul and base thoughts attracts to himself hosts
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  Speaker 1: of maleficent entities, and by this added energy for evil
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  Speaker 1: commits crimes that astonish him. In the retrospect. Some devil
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  Speaker 1: must have tempted me, he will cry, And truly these
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  Speaker 1: demoniac forces called to him by his own evil, adds
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  Speaker 1: strength to it from without. The elementals in soling thought forms,
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  Speaker 1: whether these be good or bad, link themselves to the
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  Speaker 1: elementals in the man's desired body, into those in soling
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  Speaker 1: his own thought forms, and thus work in him, though
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  Speaker 1: coming from without. But for this they must find entities
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  Speaker 1: of their own kind with which to link themselves, else
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  Speaker 1: they can exercise no power, and further elementals in an
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  Speaker 1: opposite kind of thought form will repel them, and the
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  Speaker 1: good man will drive back by his very atmosphere, his aura,
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  Speaker 1: all that is foul and cruel. It surrounds him as
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  Speaker 1: a protective wall and keeps evil away from him. There
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  Speaker 1: is another form of elemental activity that brings about widespread
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  Speaker 1: results and cannot therefore be excluded from this preliminary survey
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  Speaker 1: of the forces that go to make up karma, like
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  Speaker 1: those just dealt with. This is included in the statement
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  Speaker 1: that these thought forms people the current which reacts upon
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  Speaker 1: any sensitive or nervous organization which comes in contact with it,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in proportion to its dynamic intensity, to some extent, it
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: must effect almost everyone, though the more sensitive the organization,
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  Speaker 1: the greater the effect. Elementals have a tendency to be
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: attracted towards others of a similar kind, aggregating together in classes,
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  Speaker 1: being in a sense gregarious on their own account. And
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  Speaker 1: when a man sends out a thought form, it not
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  Speaker 1: only keeps up a magnetic link with him, but is
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  Speaker 1: drawn towards other thought forms of a similar type, and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: these congregating together on the astroplane form a good or
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: evil force, as the case, may be embodied in a
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  Speaker 1: kind of collective entity to These aggregations of similar thought
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  Speaker 1: forms are due to characteristics often strongly marked of family, local,
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  Speaker 1: and national opinion, form a kind of astral atmosphere through
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  Speaker 1: which everything is seen and which colors that to which
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  Speaker 1: the gaze is directed, and they react on the desire
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  Speaker 1: bodies of the persons included in the group concerned, setting
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  Speaker 1: up in them responsive vibrations. Such family, local, or national
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  Speaker 1: karmic surroundings largely modify the individual's activity and limit, to
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  Speaker 1: a very great extent, his power of expressing the capacities
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  Speaker 1: he may possess. Suppose an idea should be presented to him,
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  Speaker 1: he can only see it through this atmosphere that surrounds him,
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  Speaker 1: which must color it and may seriously distort. Here, then
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: are karmic limitations of a far reaching kind that will
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  Speaker 1: need further consideration. The influence of these congregated elementals is
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  Speaker 1: not confined to that which they exercise over men through
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  Speaker 1: their desire bodies. When this collective entity, as I have
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  Speaker 1: called it, is made up of thought forms of a
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  Speaker 1: destructive type, the elementals in soling These act as a
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  Speaker 1: disruptive energy, and they often work much havoc on the
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  Speaker 1: physical plane, a vortex of disintegrating energies. They are the
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  Speaker 1: fruitful sources of quote unquote accidents of natural convulsions, of storms, cyclones, hurricanes, earthquakes, bloods.
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  Speaker 1: These karmic results will also need some further consideration. End
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  Speaker 1: of section four, Section five of Karma by anibscent. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain the making of
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  Speaker 1: karma in principle. Having thus realized the relation between man
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  Speaker 1: and the elemental kingdom and the molding energies of the
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  Speaker 1: mind verily creative energies in that they call into being
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  Speaker 1: these living forms that have been described, we are in
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  Speaker 1: a position to at LEAs please partially understand something of
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  Speaker 1: the generation and working out of karma during a single
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  Speaker 1: life period. A life period I say, rather than a life,
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  Speaker 1: because a life means too little if it be used
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  Speaker 1: in the ordinary sense of a single incarnation, and it
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  Speaker 1: means too much if it be used for the whole life,
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  Speaker 1: made up of many stages in the physical body and
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  Speaker 1: of many stages without it. By life period I mean
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  Speaker 1: a little cycle of human existence with its physical astral
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  Speaker 1: and devotonic experiences, including its return to the threshold of
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  Speaker 1: the physical the four distinct stages through which the soul
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  Speaker 1: passes in order to complete its cycle. These stages are
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  Speaker 1: retrodden over and over again during the journey of the
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  Speaker 1: eternal pilgrim through our present humanity, and however much the
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  Speaker 1: experiences in each such period may vary both as to
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  Speaker 1: quantity and quality, the period will include these four stages
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  Speaker 1: for the average human being and none. It is important
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  Speaker 1: to realize that the residence outside the physical body is
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  Speaker 1: far more prolonged than the residence in it, and the
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  Speaker 1: workings of karmic law will be but poorly understood unless
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  Speaker 1: the activity of the soul in the non physical condition
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  Speaker 1: be studied. Let us recall the words of a master
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  Speaker 1: pointing out that the life out of the body is
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  Speaker 1: the real one quote the vedantins acknowledging two kinds of
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  Speaker 1: conscious existence, the terrestrial and the spiritual, point only to
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  Speaker 1: the latter as an undoubted actuality. As to the terrestrial life,
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  Speaker 1: owing to its changeability and shortness, it is nothing but
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  Speaker 1: an illusion of our senses. Our life and the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: spheres must be thought in actuality because it is there
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  Speaker 1: that lives our endless, never changing immortal eye, the Sutratma.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we call the posthumous life the only
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  Speaker 1: reality and the terrestrial one, including the personality itself only
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  Speaker 1: imaginary Lucifer, October eighteen ninety two. Life and death during
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  Speaker 1: earth life. The activity of the soul is most directly
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  Speaker 1: manifested in the creation of the thought forms already described.
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  Speaker 1: But in order to follow out with any approach to
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  Speaker 1: exactitude the workings of karma, we must now analyze further
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  Speaker 1: the term thought form and add some considerations necessarily omitted
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  Speaker 1: in the general conception first presented. The soul working as
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  Speaker 1: mind creates a mental image, the primary thought form. Let
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  Speaker 1: us take the term mental image to mean exclusively this
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  Speaker 1: immediate creation of the mind, and henceforth restrict this term
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  Speaker 1: to this initial stage of what is generally and broadly
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  Speaker 1: spoken of as a thought form. This mental image means
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  Speaker 1: attached to its creator, part of the content of his consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: It is a living, vibrating form of subtle matter, the
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  Speaker 1: word thought but not yet spoken, conceived but not yet
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  Speaker 1: made flesh. Let the reader concentrate his mind for a
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  Speaker 1: few moments on this mental image and obtain a distinct
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  Speaker 1: notion of it, isolated from all else, apart from all
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  Speaker 1: the results it is going to produce on other planes
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  Speaker 1: than its own. It forms, as just said, part of
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  Speaker 1: the content of the consciousness of its creator, part of
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  Speaker 1: his inalienable property. It cannot be separated from him. He
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  Speaker 1: carries it with him during his earthly life, carries it
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  Speaker 1: with him through the gateway of death, carries it with
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  Speaker 1: him in the regions beyond death. And if during his
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  Speaker 1: upward traveling through those regions he himself passes into air
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  Speaker 1: too rarefied for it to endure behind the denser matter
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  Speaker 1: built into it, carrying on the mental matrix the essential form.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: On his return to the grosser region, the matter of
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  Speaker 1: that plane is again built into the mental matrix, and
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  Speaker 1: the appropriate denser form is reproduced. This mental image may
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  Speaker 1: remain sleeping as it were for long periods, but it
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  Speaker 1: may be reawakened and revivified every fresh impulse from its
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  Speaker 1: creator from its progeny dealt with below from entities of
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the same type. As its progeny increases its life energy
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  Speaker 1: and modifies its form, it evolves, as we shall see,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: according to definite laws and the aggregation of these mental
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: images makes the character the outer mirrors the inner, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: as cells aggregate into the tissues of the body and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: are often much modified in the process, so do these
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: mental images aggregate into the characteristic of the mind and
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  Speaker 1: often undergo much modification. The study of the working out
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  Speaker 1: of karma will throw much light on these changes. Many
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  Speaker 1: materials may enter into the making of these mental images
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  Speaker 1: by the creative powers of the soul. It may be
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  Speaker 1: stimulated into activity by desire comma, and may shape the
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  Speaker 1: image according to the promptings of passion or of appetite.
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  Speaker 1: It may be self motivated to a noble ideal and
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: mold the image accordingly. It may be led by purely
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  Speaker 1: intellectual concepts and form the image thereafter. But lofty or base,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: intellectual or passional, serviceable or mischievous, divine or beast steal.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: It is always in man a mental image the product
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  Speaker 1: of the creative soul, and on its existence, individual karma depends.
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  Speaker 1: Without this mental image, there can be no individual karma
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: linking life period to life period. The monostic quality must
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: be present to afford the permanent element in which individual
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: karma can Inhere, the non presence of manus in the mineral,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: vegetable and animal kingdoms has as its corollary the non
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: generation of individual karma, stretching through death to rebirth. Let
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: us now consider the primary thought form in relation to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the secondary thought form, the thought form pure and simple,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: in relation to the insoled thought form, the mental image
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in relation to the astro mental image, or the thought
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: form in the lower astral plane. How is this produced
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and what is it? To use the symbol employed above,
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  Speaker 1: It is produced by the word thought becoming the word outspoken.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: The soul breathes out the thought, and the sound makes
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  Speaker 1: form in astral matter. As the ideas in the universal
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: mind become the manifested universe when they are outbreathed, so
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: do these mental images in the human mind, when outbreathed,
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  Speaker 1: become the manifested universe of their creator. He peoples his
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: current in space with a world of his own. The
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: vibrations of the mental image set up similar vibrations in
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  Speaker 1: the denser astral matter, and these cause the secondary thought form,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: what I have called the astro mental image. The mental
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: image itself remains, as has been already said, in the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: consciousness of its creator, but its vibrations passing outside that
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: consciousness reproduce its form in the denser matter of the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: lower astral plane. This is the form that affords the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: casing for a portion of elemental energy, specializing it for
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the time that the form persists. Since the manassic element
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: in the form gives a touch of individuality to that
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  Speaker 1: which insuls it, how marvelous and how illuminating are the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: correspondences in nature. This is the active entity spoken of
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: in the Master's description, and it is this astro mental
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: image that ranges over the astral plane, keeping up with
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: its progenitor, the magnetic tie spoken of, reacting on its parent,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the mental image, and acting also on others. The life
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: period of an astromenttal image may be long or short
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: according to circumstances, and its perishing does not affect the
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: persistence of its parent. Any fresh impulse given to the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: latter will cause it to generate afresh its astral counterpart.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: As each repetition of a word produces a new form.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: The vibrations of the mental image do not only pass
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: downwards to the lower astral plane, but they pass upwards
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: also into the spiritual plane above it. Footnote these words
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: downwards and upwards are very misleading. The planes, of course,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: interpenetrate each other end footnote. And as the vibrations cause
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: a denser form on the lower plane, so do they
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: generate a far subtler form. Dare I call it form?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: It is no form to us on the higher In
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the Akasha the world stuff emanated from the logos itself.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: The Akasha is the storehouse of all forms, the treasure
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: house whereinto are poured from the infinite wealth of the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: universal mind, the rich stores of all the ideas that
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: are to be bodied forth in a given cosmos. Therein
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: too also enter the vibrations from the cosmos, from all
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the thoughts of all intelligences, from all the desires of
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: all comic entities, from all the actions performed on every
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: plane by all all these make their respective impressions be
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: to us formless, but to lofty spiritual intelligences the formed
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: images of all happenings. And these akashak images, as we
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: will henceforth call them, abide forevermore and are the true
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Karmic records, the book of the Lapeika that may be
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: read by any who possess the quote opened eye of
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Dongma secret doctrine. It is the reflection of these acacic
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: images that may be thrown upon the screen of astral
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: matter by the action of the trained attention, as a
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: picture may be thrown on a screen from a slide
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: in a magic lantern, so that a scene from the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: past may be reproduced in all its living reality, correct
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: in every detail of its far off happening. For in
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the akashak records it exists imprinted there once for all,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: and a fleeting living picture of any page of these
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: records can be made at pleasure, dramatized on the astral plane,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: and lived in by the trained seer. If this imperfect
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: description be followed by the reader, he will be able
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to form for himself some faint idea of karma in
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: its aspect. As cause in the Akasha will be pictured
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the mental image created by a soul inseparable from it,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: then the astromntal image produced by it, the active and
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: souled creature, ranging the astroplane and producing innumerable effects, all
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: accurately pictured in connection with it, and therefore traceable to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: it and through it to its parent. Each such thread
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: spun as it were, out of its own substance by
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: the astro mental image, as a spider spins its web,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: being recognizable by its own shade of color. And however
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: many such threads may be woven into an effect, each
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: thread is distinguishable and is traceable to its original fourth giver,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the soul that generated the mental image. Thus, for our clumsy,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: earth bound intelligences in miserably inadequate language, we may figure
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: forth the way in which individual responsibility is seen at
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: a glance by the great lords of Karma, the administrators
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: of karmic law, the full responsibility of the soul for
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the mental image it creates, and the partial responsibility for
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: its far reaching effects, greater or less as each effect
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: has other karmic threads entering into its causation. Thus also
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: may be understand why motive plays a part so predominant
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: in the working out of karma, and why actions are
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: so relatively subordinate in their generative energy. Why karma works
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: out on each plane according to its constituents, and yet
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: links the planes together by the continuity of its thread.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: When the illuminating concepts of the Wisdom religion shed their
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: flood of light over the world, dispersing its obscurity and
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: revealing the absolute justice which is working under all the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: apparent incongruities, inequalities, and accidents of life. Is it any
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: wonder that our hearts should go out in gratitude unspeakable
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: to the great ones. Blessed be they who hold up
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the torch of truth in the murky darkness and free
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: us from the tension that was straining us to breaking point,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the helpless agony of witnessing wrongs that seemed irremediable, the
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: hopelessness of justice, the despair of love. Ye are not bound.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: The soul of things is sweet. The heart of being
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: is celestial rest. Stronger than woe is will. That which
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: was good doth pass to better best. Such is the
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: law which moves to righteousness, which none at last can
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: turn aside or stay. The heart of it is love,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: The end of it is peace and consummation sweet obey.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: We may perhaps gain in clearness if we tabulate the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: threefold results of the activity of the soul that go
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: to the making up of karma as cause regarded in
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: principle rather than in detail. Thus we have during a
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: life period table man creates on spiritual plane material akasha
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: result acacic images forming karmic record. Man creates on psychic
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: plane material higher astral result mental images remaining in creator's
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: consciousness material lower astral result, astro mental images, active entities
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: on psychic plane. End table. The results of these will
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: be tendencies, capacities, activities, opportunities, environment, etc. Chiefly in future
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: life periods worked out in accordance with definite laws. End
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: of Section five. Section six of Karma by Anni Bessant.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: The LibriVox recording is in the public domain the making
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: of Karma in detail, the soul in men, the ago.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: The maker of Karma must be recognized by the student
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: as a growing entity, a living individual who increases in
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: wisdom and in mental stature as he treads the path
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: of his Aonian evolution. And the fundamental identity of the
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: higher and lower manas must be constantly kept in mind.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: For convenience sake, we distinguish between them, but the difference
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: is a difference of functioning activity, and not of nature.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: The higher manas is Manus working on the spiritual plane,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: in possession of its full consciousness of its own past.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: The lower monas is manus working on the psychic or
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: astral plane, veiled in astral matter, vehicled in comma, and
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: with all its activities intermingled with and colored by the
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: desired nature. It is to a great extent blinded by
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: the astral matter that veils it, and is in possession
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  Speaker 1: only of a portion of the total monostic consciousness, this
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  Speaker 1: portion consisting for the vast majority of a limited selection
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  Speaker 1: from the more striking experiences of the One incarnation than
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: in progress for the practical pers purposes of life. As
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  Speaker 1: seen by most people, the lower Manas is the eye
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: and is what we term the personal Ago. The voice
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: of conscience, vaguely and confusedly regarded as supernatural as the
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  Speaker 1: voice of God, is for them the only manifestation of
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the Higher Manus on the psychic plane, and they quite
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  Speaker 1: rightly regard it as authoritative. However mistaken they may be
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  Speaker 1: as to its nature. But the student must realize that
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: the lower Manas is one with the Higher, as the
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  Speaker 1: ray is one with its sun. The sun Manus shines
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  Speaker 1: ever in the heaven of the spiritual plane. The ray
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Manas penetrates the psychic plane. But if they be regarded
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: as two otherwise than for convenience in distinguishing their functioning,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: hopeless confusion will arise. The Ago, then, is a growing
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: entity and increasing quantity. The ray sent down is like
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  Speaker 1: a hand plunged into water to seize some object, and
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: then withdrawn, holding the object in its grasp. The increase
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: in the ago depends on the value of the objects
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  Speaker 1: gathered by its outstretched hand, and the importance of all
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: its work. When the ray is withdrawn is limited and
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: conditioned by the experience is gathered while that ray has
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: been functioning on the psychic plane. It is as though
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: a laborer when out into a field, toiling in rain
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: and in sunshine, in cold and in heat, returning home
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: at night. But the laborer is also the proprietor, and
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: all the results of his labor fill his own granaries
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  Speaker 1: and enriches own store. Each personal ago is the immediately
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: effective part of the continuing or individual ago, representing it
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: in the lower world, and necessarily more or less developed
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: according to the stage at which the ago as a
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: totality or an individual has arrived. If this be clearly understood,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: the sense of injustice to the personal ago in its
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  Speaker 1: succession to its karmic inheritance, often felt as a difficulty
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  Speaker 1: by the young student of theosophy, will disappear, for it
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  Speaker 1: will be realized that the ago that makes the karma
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  Speaker 1: reaps the karma. The laborer that sowed the seed gathers
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  Speaker 1: in the harvest. Though the clothes in which he worked
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  Speaker 1: as sower may have worn out during the interval between
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  Speaker 1: the sowing and the reaping. The AGO's astral garments have
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  Speaker 1: also fallen to pieces between seed time and harvest, and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: he reaps in a new suit of clothes. But it
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: is he who sowed and who reaps. And if he
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  Speaker 1: sowed but little seed, or seed badly chosen, it is
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: he who will find but a poor harvest. When as
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: reaper he goeth forth in the early stages of the
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: a jago's growth, his progress will be extremely slow, for
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: he will be led hither and thither by desire following
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: attractions on the physical plane, the mental images he generates
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: will be mostly of the passional class, and hence the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: astro mental images will be violent and short lived rather
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  Speaker 1: than strong and far reaching. According as monostic elements enter
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: into the composition of the mental image, will be the
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: endurance of the astromenttal. Steady sustained thought will form clearly
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  Speaker 1: defined mental images and correspondingly strong and enduring astro mental images,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: and there will be a distinct purpose in the life,
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  Speaker 1: a clearly recognized ideal to which the mind is constantly
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: recurring and on which it continually dwells. This mental image
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: will become a dominating influence in the mental life, and
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: the energies of the soul will be largely directed by it.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Let us now study the making of karma by way
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: of the mental image. During a man's life, he forms
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: an innumerable assemblage of mental images. Some are strong, clear,
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  Speaker 1: continually reinforced by repeated mental impulses. Others are weak, vague,
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  Speaker 1: just formed and then, as it were, forsaken by the mind.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: At death, the soul finds it self possessed of myriads
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: of these mental images, and they vary in character as
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: well as in strength and definiteness. Some are of spiritual aspirations,
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  Speaker 1: longings to be of service, gropings after knowledge, vows of
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: self dedication to the higher life. Some are purely intellectual,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: clear gems of thought, receptacles of the results of deep study.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Some are emotional and passional breathing, love, compassion, tenderness, devotion, anger, ambition, pride, greed.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Some are from bodily appetites stimulated by uncurbed desire and
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: represent thoughts of gluttony, drunkenness, sensuality. Each soul has its
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  Speaker 1: own consciousness crowded with these mental images. The outcome of
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: its mental life not one thought, however, fleeting, but is
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  Speaker 1: there represented the astro mental images may in many cases
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  Speaker 1: long have perished, may have had strength enough to endure
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  Speaker 1: but for a few hours, but the mental images remain
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: among the possessions of the soul. Not one is lacking.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: All these mental images the soul carries away with it
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: when it passes through death into the astral world. The
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Kama loca or place of desire is divided into many strata,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: as it were, and the soul just after death is
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: encumbered with its complete body of desire or comma rupa,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: and all the mental images formed by comma manas that
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: are of a gross and animal nature are powerful. On
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: the lowest levels of this astral world. A poorly developed
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: soul will dwell on these images and act them out,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: thus preparing itself to repeat them again physically in its
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: next life. A man who has dwelt on sensual thoughts
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: and made such mental images will not only be drawn
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: to earth scenes connected with sensual gratifications, but will constantly
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: be repeating them as actions in his mind, and so
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: setting up in his nature stronger and stronger impulses towards
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: the future commission of similar offenses. So with other mental
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: images formed from materials supplied by the desired nature that
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: belong to other levels in Kama Loca. As the soul
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: rises from the lower levels to the high, the mental
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: images built from the materials of the lower levels lose
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: these elements, thus becoming latent in consciousness or what H. P.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Bolvotsky used to call privations of matter capable of existing
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: but out of material manifestation. The coma rupic vesture is
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: purified of its grosser elements as the lower ago is
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: drawn upwards or inwards towards the devachonic region, each cast
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: off shell disintegrating in due course until the last is
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: doffed and the ray is completely withdrawn, free from all
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: astral encasement. On the return of the Ago towards earth life,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: these latent images will be thrown outwards and will attract
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: to themselves the appropriate comic materials which make them capable
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: of manifestation on the astral plane, and they will become
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: the appetites, passions, and lower emotions of his decay desire
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: body for his new incarnation. We may remark in passing
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: that some of the mental images encircling the newly arrived
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: soul are the source of much trouble during the earlier
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: stages of the post mortem life. Superstitious beliefs presenting themselves
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: as mental images torture the soul with pictures of horrors
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: that have no place in its real surroundings. Footnote see Astrolplane, c. W. Leadbeater,
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  Speaker 1: page twenty four to twenty five. All the mental images
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  Speaker 1: formed from the passions and appetites are subjected to the
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: process above described to be re manifested by the ago
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: on its return to Earth life. And, as the writer
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: of the Astrolplane says, quote the Lapeika, the great karmic
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: deities of the cosmos weigh the deeds of each personality
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: when the final separation of its principles takes place in Kamuloca, give,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: as it were, the molds of the Linga Sharira exactly
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: suitable to its karma for the man's next birth. Freed
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: for the time from these lower elements, the soul passes
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: on into Devachon, where it spends a time proportionate to
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: the wealth or poverty of its mental images, pure enough
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: to be carried into that region. Here it finds again
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: every one of its loftier efforts, however brief it may
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: have been, however fleeting, and here it works upon them,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: building out of these materials powers for its coming lives.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: The devachanic life is one of assimilation. The experiences collected
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: on Earth have to be worked into the texture of
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: the soul, and it is by these that the ago grows.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Its development depends on the number and variety of the
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: mental images it has formed during its earth life, and
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: transmits into their appropriate and more permanent types. Gathering together
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: all the mental images of a special class, it extracts
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: from them their essence. By meditation, it creates a mental
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: organ and pours into it as faculty the essence it
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: has extracted. For instance, a man has formed many mental
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: images out of aspirations for knowledge and efforts to understand
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: subtle and lofty reasonings. He casts off his body, his
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: mental powers, being of only average kind. In his devichan,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: he works on all these mental images and evolves them
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: into capacity, so that his soul returns to Earth with
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: a higher mental apparatus than it before, possessed with much
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: increased intellectual powers, able to achieve tasks for which before
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: it was utterly inadequate. This is the transformation of the
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: mental images, by which, as mental images, they cease to exist.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: If in later lives the soul would seek to see
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: again these as they were, it must seek them in
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: the Karmic records, where they remain forever as acaucic images.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: By this transformation, they cease to be mental images created
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: and worked on by the soul, and become powers of
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the soul, part of its very nature. If then a
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: man desires to possess higher mental faculties than he at
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: present and joys, he can ensure their development by deliberately
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: willing to acquire them, persistently keeping their acquirement in view.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: For desire and aspiration in one life become faculty in another,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: and the will to perform becomes the capacity to achieve.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: But it must be remembered that the faculty thus builded
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: is strictly limited by the materials supplied to the architect.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: There is no creation out of nothing. And if the
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: soul on earth fail to exercise its powers by sowing
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: the seed of aspiration and desire, the soul and devachan
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: will have but scanty harvest. Mental images which have been
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: constantly repeated, but are not of the aspiring character of
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: the longing to achieve more than the feeble powers of
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the soul permit, become tendencies of thought, grooves into which
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: mental energy runs easily and readily. Hence the importance of
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: not letting the mind drift aimlessly among insignificant objects. Idly
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: creating trivial mental images and letting them dwell in the mind,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: these will persist and form channels for future outpourings of
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: mental force, which will thus be led to meander about
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: on low levels, running into the accustomed grooves as the
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: paths of least resistance. The will or desire to perform
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: a certain action. Such will or desire, having been frustrated
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: not by want of ability, but by want of opportunity,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: or by circumstances forbidding accomplishment, will cause mental images, which,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: if the action be of a high and pure nature,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: will be acted out in the thought on the devachanic plane,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: and will be precipitated as actions on returning to Earth.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: If the mental image was formed out of desire to
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: do beneficent actions, it would give rise to the mental
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: performance of these actions in Devachan, and this performance, the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: reflection of the image itself, would leave it in the
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: ago as an intensified mental image of an action, which
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: would be thrown out onto the physical plane as a
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: physical act. The moment the touch of favorable opportunity precipitated
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: as crystallization of the thought into the act. The physical
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: act is inevitable when the mental image has been realized
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: as action on the devachanic plane. This same law applies
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: to mental images formed out of baser desires, though these
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: never pass into Devachan, but are subjected to the process
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: before described to be reformed on the way back to Earth.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Repeated covetous desires, for instance, out of which mental images
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: are formed, will crystallize out as acts of theft. When
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: circumstances are propitious, the causative karma is complete and the
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: physical act has become its inevitable effect when it has
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: reached the stage at which another repetition of the mental
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: image means its passing into action. It must not be
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: forgotten that repetition of an act tends to make the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: act automatic, and this law works on planes other than
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: the physical. If then an action be constantly repeated on
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: the psychic plane, it will become automatic, and when opportunity offers,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: will automatically be imitated on the physical. How often is
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: it said after a crime it was done before I thought,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: or if I had thought for a moment, I would
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: never have done it. The speaker is quite right in
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: his plea that he was not then moved by a deliberate,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: thought out idea, and he is naturally ignorant as to
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: preceding thoughts the train of causes that led up to
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: the inevitable result. Thus, a saturated solution will solidify if
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: but one more crystal be dropped into it. At the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: mere contact, the whole passes into the solid state. When
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: the aggregation of mental images has reached saturation point, the
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: addition of but one more solidifies them into an act.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: The act again is inevitable, for the freedom of choice
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: has been exhausted in choosing over and over again to
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: make the mental image, and the physical is constrained to
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: obey the mental impulsion. The desire to do in one
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: life reacts as compulsion to do in another, And it
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: seems as though the desire worked as a demand upon nature,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: to which she responds by a affording the opportunity to
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: perform footnotes see the later section on the working out
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: of karma. The mental images stored up by the memory
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: as the experiences through which the soul has passed during
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: its earth life. The exact record of the action upon
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: it of the external world, must also be worked on
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: by the soul. By study of these, by meditation upon them,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the soul learns to see their interrelations, their value, as
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: translations to it of the workings of the universal mind
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: in manifested nature. In a sentence, it extracts from them,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: by patient thought upon them all the lessons they have
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: to teach. Lessons of pleasure and pain, of pleasure breeding pain,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: and pain breeding pleasure, teaching the presence of inviolable laws
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: to which it must learn to conform itself. Lessons of
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: success and failure, of achievement and disappointment of fears, proving
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: groundless of hope's failing, realization of strength, collapsing under trial
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: of fancied knowledge, betraying itself as ignorance of patient endurance,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: wresting victory from apparent defeat, of recklessness, changing into defeat
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: apparent victory. Over all these things, the soul ponders, and
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: by its own alchemy it changes all this mixture of
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: experiences into the gold of wisdom, so that it may
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: return to Earth as a wiser soul, bringing to bear
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: on the events which meet it in the new life.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: This result of the experiences of the old Here again
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: the mental images have been transmuted, and no longer exist
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: as mental images. They can only be recovered in their
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: old form from the karmic records. It is from the
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: mental images of experiences, and more especially from those which
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: tell how suffering has been caused by ignorance of law,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: that conscience is born and developed. The soul, during its
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: successive Earth lives is constantly led by desire to rush
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: headlong after some attractive object. In its pursuit, it dashes
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: itself against law and falls bruised and bleeding. Many such
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: experiences teach it that gratifications sought against law are but
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: wombs of pain. And when in some new Earth life
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: the desire body would fain carry the soul into enjoyment,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: which is evil, the memory of past experiences asserts itself
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: as conscience and cries aloud its forbiddence and reins in
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: the hurrying horses of the senses that would plunge heedlessly
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: after the objects of desire. At the present stage of evolution,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: all but the most backward souls have passed through sufficient
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: experiences to recognize the broad outlines of right and wrong,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: i e. Of harmony with the divine nature and of discord.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: And on these main questions of ethics, a wide and
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: long experience enables the soul to speak clearly and definitely.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: But on many higher and subtler questions belonging to the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: present stage of evolution and not to the stages that
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: lie behind us, experience is still so restricted and insufficient
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: that it has not yet been worked up into conscience,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: and the soul may err in its decision, however well intentioned.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Its effort to see clearly and to act rightly. Here
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: its will to obey sets it in line with the
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: divine nature on the higher planes, and its failure to
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: see how to obey on the lower plane will be
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: remedied for the future by the pain it feels as
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: it blunders up against the law. The suffering will teach
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: it what before it knew not, and its sorrowful experiences
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: will be worked into conscience to preserve it from similar
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: pain in the future, to give it the joy a
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: fuller knowledge of God in nature of self conscious accord
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: with the law of life of self conscious cooperation in
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: the work of evolution. Thus far we see as definite
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: principles of Karmic law working with mental images as causes
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: that aspirations and desires become capacities, repeated thoughts become tendencies,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: wills to perform become actions, experiences become wisdom, Painful experiences
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: become conscience. Karmic law working with astro mental images seems
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: better considered under the head of the working out of Karma,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: to which we will now turn. End of Section six.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: Section seven of Karma by Annie Bessant. The sleep Ze
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Rockshire cording is in the public domain the working out
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: of Karma. When the soul has lived out its devachanic
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: life and has assimilated all that it can of the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: material gathered during its last period on earth, it begins
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: to be drawn again towards Earth by the links of
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: desire that bind it to material existence. The last stage
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: of its life period now lies before it, the stage
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: during which it reclothes itself for another experience of earthly life,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: the stage that is closed by the gateway of birth.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: The soul steps over the threshold of Devachan into what
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: has been called the plane of reincarnation, bringing with it
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: the results small or great of its Devachanic work. If
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: it be but a young soul, it will have gained
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: but little progress. In the early stages of soul evolution
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: is slow to an extent scarcely realized by most students,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: and during the babyhood of the soul, life day succeeds
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: life day in wearying succession, each earth life sowing but
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  Speaker 1: little seed, each devachan ripening but little fruit. As faculties develop,
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  Speaker 1: growth quickens at an ever increasing rate, and the soul
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  Speaker 1: that enters Devachan with a large store of material, comes
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  Speaker 1: out of it with a large increase of faculty. Worked
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  Speaker 1: out under the general laws before stated, it issues from Devachan,
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  Speaker 1: clothed only in that body of the soul that endures
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  Speaker 1: and grows throughout the manvantara, surrounded by the aura that
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  Speaker 1: belongs to it as an individual, more or less glorious,
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  Speaker 1: many hued, luminous, definite, and extensive. According to the stage
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  Speaker 1: of evolution reached by the soul. It has been wrought
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  Speaker 1: in the heavenly fire and comes fourth as King Soma
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: note a mystic name full of meaning to the student
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  Speaker 1: who understands the part played by Soma in some ancient mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: Passing on to the astral plane on its earthword journey,
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  Speaker 1: it close itself anew in a body of desire, the
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  Speaker 1: first result of the workings out of its past karma.
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  Speaker 1: The mental images formed during the past from materials supplied
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  Speaker 1: by the desired nature that had become latent in consciousness
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  Speaker 1: or what h. Po Bolvotsky used to call privations of
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  Speaker 1: matter capable of existing but out of material manifestation, are
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  Speaker 1: now thrown outwards by the soul and immediately attracted themselves
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  Speaker 1: from the matter of the astral plane. The comic elements
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  Speaker 1: congenial to their natures and become the appetites, passions, and
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  Speaker 1: lower emotions of his the aego's desire body for his
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  Speaker 1: new incarnation. When this work is accomplished, a work sometimes
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  Speaker 1: very brief, sometimes one that causes long delay, the ago
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  Speaker 1: stands in the karmic vesture he has prepared for himself,
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  Speaker 1: ready to be clothed upon to receive from the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the agents of the great lords of Karma. The
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  Speaker 1: etheric double note hitherto called the linga Sharira a nina
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  Speaker 1: has given rise to much confusion built for him according
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  Speaker 1: to the elements he has himself provided, after which shall
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  Speaker 1: be shaped his physical body, the house which he must
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  Speaker 1: inhabit during his coming physical life. The individual and the
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  Speaker 1: personal ago are thus immediately self built, as it were
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  Speaker 1: what he thought on that he has become, his qualities,
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  Speaker 1: his natural gifts. All these appertained to him as the
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  Speaker 1: direct results of his thinkings. The man is, in very
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  Speaker 1: truth self created, responsible in the fullest sense of the word,
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  Speaker 1: for all that he is. But this man is to
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  Speaker 1: have a physical and etheric body that will largely condition
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  Speaker 1: the exercise of his faculties. He is to live in
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  Speaker 1: some environment, and according to this will be his outward circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: He is to tread a path marked out by the
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  Speaker 1: causes he has set going other than those which appear
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  Speaker 1: as effects in his faculties. He has to meet events
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  Speaker 1: joyful and sorrowful resulting from the forces he has generated.
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  Speaker 1: Something more than his individual and personal nature seems here
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  Speaker 1: to be needed. How is the field to be provided
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  Speaker 1: for its energies. How are the conditioning instruments and the
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: reacting circumstances to be found and adapted. We approach a
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  Speaker 1: region whereof little may be fitly said in that it
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  Speaker 1: is the region of mighty spiritual intelligences, whose nature is
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  Speaker 1: far beyond the scope of our very limited faculties, whose
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  Speaker 1: existence may indeed be known, and whose workings may be traced,
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  Speaker 1: but towards whom we stand much in the position occupied
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  Speaker 1: by one of the least intelligent lower animals towards ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and that it may know that we exist, but can
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  Speaker 1: have no conception of the scope and workings of our consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: These great ones are spoken of as the Lapeka and
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  Speaker 1: the four Maharajahs. How little we can know of the
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  Speaker 1: Llupeka may be seen from the following quote the Lupeka,
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  Speaker 1: a description of whom is given in commentary six of
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  Speaker 1: stands of four are the spirits of the universe. They
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  Speaker 1: belong to the most occult portion of cosmogenesis, which cannot
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  Speaker 1: be given here. Whether the adepts, even the highest know
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  Speaker 1: this angelic order in the completeness of its triple degrees,
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  Speaker 1: or only the lower one connected with the records of
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  Speaker 1: our world is something which the writer is unprepared to say,
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  Speaker 1: and she would rather incline to the latter supposition of
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  Speaker 1: its highest grade. One thing only is taught. The Lapeka
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  Speaker 1: are connected with Karma, being its direct recorders secret doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: They are the second seven, and they keep the astral
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  Speaker 1: records filled with the acacic images before spoken of. They
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  Speaker 1: are connected quote with the destiny of every man and
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  Speaker 1: the birth of every child. They give the mold of
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  Speaker 1: the linga Sharira, which will serve as the type of
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  Speaker 1: the physical body suited for the expression of the mental
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  Speaker 1: and passional faculties evolved by the Ago, that is to
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  Speaker 1: dwell therein. And they give it to the four to
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  Speaker 1: the Maharajahs, who quote are the protectors of mankind and
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  Speaker 1: also the agents of Karma on earth. Secret doctrine of
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: these h P. Bolvotsky writes further, quoting the fifth Stanza
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: of the Book of Jian, four winged wheels at each
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  Speaker 1: corner for the four holy ones and their armies hosts.
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  Speaker 1: These are the four Maharajahs or great kings of the
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  Speaker 1: Jian Chohans, the Devas who preside over each of the
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  Speaker 1: four cardinal points. These beings are also connected with karma,
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  Speaker 1: as the latter needs physical and material agents to carry
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  Speaker 1: out its decrees. Receiving the mold once more the privation
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  Speaker 1: of matter from the lapeka, the Maharajas choose for the
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  Speaker 1: composition of the etheric double the elements suited to the
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  Speaker 1: qualities that are to be expressed through it, and this
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: etheric double thus becomes a fitting karmic instrument for the Ago,
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  Speaker 1: giving it alike the basis for expression of the faculties
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  Speaker 1: it has evolved and the limitations imposed upon it by
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: its own past failures and wasted opportunities. This is guided
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  Speaker 1: by the Maharajas to the country, the race, the family,
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  Speaker 1: the social surroundings which afford the most suitable field for
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  Speaker 1: the working out of the karma allotted to the particular
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  Speaker 1: life span in question, that which the Hindu calls the
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  Speaker 1: Parabhda or beginning karma, i e. That which is to
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  Speaker 1: be worked out in the opening life period. In no
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  Speaker 1: one life can the accumulated karma of the past be
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  Speaker 1: worked out, No one instrument could be formed, no surroundings
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  Speaker 1: could be found suitable for the expression of all the
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  Speaker 1: slowly evolved faculties of the ago, nor affording all the
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  Speaker 1: circumstances necessary for reaping all the harvests sown in the past,
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  Speaker 1: for discharging all the obligations contracted towards other agoes with
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  Speaker 1: whom the incarnating soul has come into contact in the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: course of its long evolution. So much, then of the
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  Speaker 1: total karma as can be arranged for in one life
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  Speaker 1: period has a suitable etheric double provided for it, the
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  Speaker 1: mold of that double being guided to a suitable field.
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  Speaker 1: It is placed where the ago may come into relations
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  Speaker 1: with some of such agoes with whom it has been
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  Speaker 1: related in its past, as are present in or are
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: coming into incarnation during its own life period. A country
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  Speaker 1: is chosen where the religious, political, and social conditions can
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: be found which are suitable to some of its capacities
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: and afford the field for the occurrence of some of
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: the effects has generated. A race is selected, subject of course,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: to the wider laws affecting incarnation. In races into which
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: we cannot here enter, of which the characteristics resemble, some
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  Speaker 1: of the faculties which are ripe for exercise, of which
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  Speaker 1: the type befits the incoming soul, a family is found
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: in which physical heredity has evolved. The kind of physical
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: materials which built into the etheric double will adapt themselves
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: to its constitution. A family of which the general or
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: special physical organization will afford play to the mental and
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: passional natures of the Ago. Out of the manifold qualities
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: existing in the soul, and out of the manifold physical
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: types existing in the world, such can be selected, as
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: are adapted to each other. A suitable casing can be
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  Speaker 1: built for the waiting Ago, an instrument and a field
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: in which some of his karma can be outworked. Fathomless
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: to our short plummet lines as may be that knowledge
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: and the power required for such adaptations, we can yet
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: dimly see that the adaptations can be made, and that
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: perfect justice can be done. The web of a man's
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: destiny may indeed be composed of threads that to us
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: are innumerable, and that may need to be woven into
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: a pattern of to us in conceivable complexity. A thread
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: may disappear it has only passed to the underside to
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: come to the surface again. Presently, a thread may suddenly appear,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: it is only re emerged on the upper side after
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: a long transit underneath, seeing but a fragment of the web.
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  Speaker 1: The pattern may to our short sight be indistinguishable. But
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: as was written by the sage Iamblicus, what appears to
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: us to be an accurate definition of justice does not
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: also appear to be so to the gods. For we,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: looking to that which is most brief, direct our attention
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  Speaker 1: to things present, and to this momentary life and the
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: manner in which it subsists. But the powers that are
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: superior to us know the whole life of the soul
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: and all its former lives on the mysteries. This assurance
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: that perfect justice rules the world finds support from the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: increasing knowledge of the evolving soul. For as it advances
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: and begins to see on higher planes and to transmit
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  Speaker 1: its knowledge to the waking consciousness, we learn with ever
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: growing certainty, and therefore with ever increasing joy, that the
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: good law is working with undeviating accuracy, that its agents
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: apply it everywhere with unerring insight, with unfailing strength, and
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: that all is therefore very well with the world and
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: with its struggling souls. Through the darkness rings out the
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: cry all is well from the watchman's souls who carry
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: the lamp of divine wisdom through the murky ways of
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: our human city. Some of the principles of the working
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: out of the law we can see, and in knowledge
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: of these will help us in the tracing out of
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: causes the understanding of effects. We have already seen that
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: thoughts build character. Let us next realize that actions make environment.
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  Speaker 1: Here we have to do with a general principle of
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: far reaching effect, and it will be well to work
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  Speaker 1: it out a little into detail. By his actions, man
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: affects his neighbors on the physical plane. He spreads happiness
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: around him, or he causes distress, increasing or diminishing the
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: sum of human welfare. This increase or diminution of happiness
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: may be due to very different motives, good, bad, or mixed.
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  Speaker 1: A man may do an act that gives widespread enjoyment
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: from sheer benevolence, from a longing to give happiness to
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  Speaker 1: his fellow creatures. Let us say that from such a
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: motive he presents a park to a town for the
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: free use of its inhabitants. Another may do a similar
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: act from mere ostentation, from desire to attract attention from
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: those who can bestow social honors. Say he might give
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: it as a purchase money for a title. A third
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: may give a park from mixed motives, partly unselfish, partly selfish.
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  Speaker 1: The motives will severally effect these three men's characters in
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: their future incarnations, for improvement, for degradation, for small results.
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  Speaker 1: But the effect of the action in causing happiness to
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: large numbers of people does not depend on a motive
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  Speaker 1: of the giver. The people enjoy the park equally, no
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: matter what may have prompted its gift, and this enjoyment,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: due to the action of the giver, establishes for him
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: a karmic claim on nature, a debt due to him
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: that will be scrupulously paid. He will receive a physically
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: comfortable or luxurious environment, as he has given widespread physical enjoyment,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: and his sacrifice of physical wealth will bring him his
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: due reward, the karmic fruit of his action. This is
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: his right. But the use he makes of his position,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: the happiness he derives from his wealth and his surroundings,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: will depend chiefly on his character. And here again the
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: just reward accrues to him. Each seed bearing its appropriate harvest,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: service rendered to the full measure of opportunity in one
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: life will produce as effect enlarged opportunities of service in another. Thus,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: one who in a very limited sphere helped each who
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: came in the way would in a future life be
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: borne into a position where openings for giving effective help
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: were many in far reaching. Again, wasted opportunities reappear, transmuted
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: as limitations of the instrument and as misfortunes in the environment.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: For instance, the brain of the etheric double will be
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: built defectively, thus bringing about a defective physical brain. The
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: ago will plan, but will find itself lacking in executive ability,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: or will grasp an idea but be unable to impress
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: it distinctly on the brain. The wasted opportunities are transformed
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: into frustrated longings, into desires which fail to find it
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: scns expression into yearnings to help, blocked by the absence
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: of power to render it, whether from defective capacity or
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: from lack of occasion. This same principle is often at
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: work in the cutting away from tender care of some
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: well loved child or idolized youth. If an ago treats
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: unkindly or neglects one to whom he owes affectionate duty
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: and protection or service, of any kind, he will, but
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: too likely again find himself born in close relationship with
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: the neglected one, and perhaps tenderly attached to him, only
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: for early death to snatch him away from the encircling arms.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: The despised poor relation may reappear as the much honored heir,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: the only son. And when the parents find their house
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: left unto them, desolate, they marvel at the unequal ways
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: of providence that deprive them of their only one, on
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: whom all their hopes have been set, and leave untied
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: the many children of their neighbor. Yet are the ways
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: of Karmi equal, though past finding out, save for those
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: whose eyes have been opened. Congenital defects result from a
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: defective etheric double, and are lifelong penalties for serious rebellions
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: against law or for injuries inflicted upon others. All such
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: arise from the working of the lords of Karma, and
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: are the physical manifestation of the deformities necessitated by the
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: errors of the Aego, by his excesses, and defects in
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: the mold of the etheric double made by them. So again,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: from their just administration of the law come the inwrought
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: tendency to reproduce a family disease, the suitable configuration of
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: the etheric double, and the direction of it to a
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: family in which a given disease is hereditary, and which
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: affords the continuous plasm suitable to the development of the
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: appropriate germs. The development of artistic faculties to take another
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: type of qualities will be answered by the lords of
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: Karma by the provision of a mold for the etheric double,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: after which a delicate nervous system can be physically built,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: and often by the guiding of it to a family
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: in whose members the special faculty developed by the ago
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: has found expression, sometimes for many generations. For the expression
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: of such a faculty, as that of music, for instance,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: a peculiar physical body is needed, a delicacy of physical
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: ear and a physical touch, And to such delicacy in
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: appropriate physical heredity would be most conducive. The rendering of
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: service to man collectively, as by some noble book or speech.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: The spreading of elevating ideas by pen or tongue is
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: again a claim upon the law scrupulously discharged by its
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: mighty agents. Such help given comes back as help bestowed
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: on the giver, as mental and spiritual assistance, which is
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: his by right. We thus may grasp the broad principles
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: of karmic working, the respective parts played by the lords
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: of karma and by the Ago itself in the destiny
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: of the individual. The ago supplies all the materials, but
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: the materials are used by the lords or by the Ago, respectively,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: according to their nature. The latter builds up the character
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: gradually evolves itself. The former build the mold that limits,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: choose the environment, and generally adapt and adjust in order
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: that the good law may find its unerring expression despite
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: the clashing wills of men end of section seven Section
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: eight of Karma. By any vessant, this lib ervox recording
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: is in the public domain, facing karmic results. Sometimes people feel,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: on first recognizing the existence of karma, that if all
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: be the working out of law, they are but helpless
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: slaves of destiny. Air Considering how the law may be
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: utilized for the control of destiny, let us study for
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: a few moments a typical case and see how necessity
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: and free will to use the accepted terms are both
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: at work and at work in harmony. A man comes
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: into the world with certain inborn mental faculties. Let us
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: say of an average type, with a passional nature that
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: shows definite characteristics, some good, some bad, with an etheric
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: double and physical body fairly well formed and healthy, but
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: of no specially splendid character. These are his limitations, clearly
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: marked out for him, and he finds himself when he
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: reaches manhood with this mental, passional, astral physical stock in hand,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: and he has to do the best he can with it.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: There are many mental heights that he is definitely unable
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: to climb, mental conceptions which his powers do not permit
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: him to grasp. There are temptations to which his passional
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: nature yields, though he strives against them. There are triumphs
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: of physical strength and skill that he cannot achieve. In fact,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: he finds that he can no more think as a
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: genius thinks, than he can be beautiful as an apollo.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: He is within a limiting ring and cannot pass out
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: of it long as he may for liberty. Moreover, he
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: cannot avoid troubles of many kinds. They strike him, and
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: he can only bear his pain. He cannot escape from it.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: Now these things are so, the man is limited by
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  Speaker 1: his past thoughts, by his wasted opportunities, by his mistaken choices,
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  Speaker 1: by his foolish yieldings. He is bound by his forgotten
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  Speaker 1: desires and chained by his errors of an earlier day.
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  Speaker 1: And yet he is not bound. The real man, he
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  Speaker 1: who made the past that imprisons his present, can work
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  Speaker 1: within the prison house and create a future of liberty. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: let him know that he himself is free, and the
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  Speaker 1: fetters will crumble away from his limbs, and according to
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  Speaker 1: the measure of his knowledge, will be the illusoriness of
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  Speaker 1: his bonds. But for the ordinary man, to whom the
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: knowledge will come as a spark, not as a flame,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: the first step towards freedom will be to accept his
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  Speaker 1: limitations as self made, and proceed to enlarge them. True,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: he cannot think as a genius thinks just yet, But
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: he can think to the very best of his ability,
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  Speaker 1: and by and by he will become a genius. He
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: can make power for the future, and he will. True,
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  Speaker 1: he cannot get rid of his passional follies in a moment,
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  Speaker 1: but he can fight against them, and when he has failed,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: he can fight on certain that presently he will conquer. True,
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  Speaker 1: he has astral and physical weaknesses and uglinesses, but as
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts grow strong and pure and beautiful, and his
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  Speaker 1: work beneficent. He is ensuring for himself more perfect forms
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  Speaker 1: in days to come. He is always himself the free
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  Speaker 1: soul in the midst of his prison house, and he
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  Speaker 1: can hew down the walls he himself builded. He has
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  Speaker 1: no jailer save himself. He can will his freedom, and
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  Speaker 1: in willing it he will achieve. A trouble meets him.
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  Speaker 1: He is bereaved of a friend. He commits a serious fault.
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  Speaker 1: Be it so he sinned as thinker in the past.
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  Speaker 1: He suffers as actor in the present. But his friend
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  Speaker 1: is not lost. He will hold him fast by life,
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  Speaker 1: and in the future he will find him again. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: there are others round him to whom he can give
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  Speaker 1: the services he would have showered on his beloved, And
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  Speaker 1: he will not again neglect the duties that are his,
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  Speaker 1: and so so seed for similar loss in future lives.
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  Speaker 1: He has committed an open wrong and suffers its penalty.
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  Speaker 1: But he thought it in the past, else could he
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  Speaker 1: not have wrought it. Now? He will patiently endure the
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  Speaker 1: penalty he purchased by his thought, and will so think
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  Speaker 1: to day that his morrows shall be free from shame
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  Speaker 1: into what was darkness has come a ray of light,
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  Speaker 1: and the light is singing to him, Ho, ye who suffer, no,
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  Speaker 1: ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels. The law that
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be fetters has become wings, and by it
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  Speaker 1: he can rise to regions of which without it he
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  Speaker 1: could only dream. End of Section eight, Section nine of Karma.
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  Speaker 1: By any lessent, this LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Building the future. The crowds of souls drift onwards along
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: the sluggish current of time. As the earth rolls, it
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: carries them with it. As globe succeeds globe, they two
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  Speaker 1: pass on. But the wisdom religion is a new proclaim
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  Speaker 1: to the world, that all who choose may cease to
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  Speaker 1: drift and may learn to outstrip the slow evolution of
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  Speaker 1: the worlds. The student, when he grasps something of the
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  Speaker 1: meaning of the law, of its absolute certainty, of its
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  Speaker 1: unerring exactitude, begins to take himself in hand, an active
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: to superintend his own evolution. He scrutinizes his own character
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  Speaker 1: and then proceeds to manipulate it, deliberately, practicing mental and
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  Speaker 1: moral qualities, enlarging capacities, strengthening weaknesses, supplying deficiencies, removing excrescences,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: knowing that he becomes that on which he meditates. He
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  Speaker 1: deliberately and regularly meditates on a noble ideal, for he
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  Speaker 1: understands why the great Christian Initiate Paul bade his disciples
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  Speaker 1: think on the things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely,
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  Speaker 1: and of good report. Daily. He will meditate on his
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  Speaker 1: ideal daily, he will strive to live it. And he
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  Speaker 1: will do this persistently and calmly, without haste, without rest,
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  Speaker 1: for he knows he is building on a sure foundation,
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  Speaker 1: on the rock of the eternal law. He appeals to
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: the law. He takes refuge in the law. For such
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: a man failure exists. Not there is no power in
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: heaven or in Earth that can bar his way. During
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  Speaker 1: earth life, he gathers his experiences, utilizing all that comes
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  Speaker 1: in his way. During Devichan, he assimilates them and plans
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: out his future buildings. Herein lies the value of a
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  Speaker 1: true theory of life, even while the theory rests on
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  Speaker 1: the testimony of others and not on individual knowledge. When
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: a man accepts and partially understands the working of karma,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: he can at once begin this building of character, setting
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: each stone with deliberate care, knowing that he is building
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  Speaker 1: for eternity. There is no longer hasty running up and
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: pulling down, working on one plan to day, on another, tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: on none at all the day after. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a drafting of a well thought out scheme of character,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, and then the building according to the scheme.
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  Speaker 1: For the soul becomes an architect as well as a builder,
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  Speaker 1: and wastes no more time in a board of beginnings.
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  Speaker 1: Hence the speed with which the later stages of evolution
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  Speaker 1: are accomplished, the striking, almost incredible advances made by the
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: strong soul in its manhood. End of section nine, Section
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  Speaker 1: ten of Karma by any bessant, This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Molding Karma, the man who has
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: set himself deliberately to build the future will realize as
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: his knowledge increases, that he can do more than mold
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: his own character, thus making his future destiny. He begins
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: to understand that he is at the center of things
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: in a very real sense, a living, active, self determining being,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: and that he can act upon circumstances as well as
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: upon himself. He has long been accustoming himself to follow
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: the great ethical laws laid down for the guidance of
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  Speaker 1: humanity by the divine teachers who have been born from
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: age to age, And he now grasps the fact that
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: these laws are based on fundamental principles in nature, and
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: that morality is science applied to conduct. He sees that
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: in his daily life he can neutralize the ill results
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: that would follow from some ill deed by bringing to
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: bear upon the same point a corresponding force for good.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: A man sends against him an evil thought, he might
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: meet it with another of its own kind, and then
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: the two thought forms, running together like two drops of water,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: would be reinforce forced, strengthened each by each. But this
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  Speaker 1: one against whom the evil thought is flying, is a
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  Speaker 1: knower of karma, and he meets the malignant form with
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: the force of compassion and shatters it. The broken form
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: can no longer be insold with elemental life. The life
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: melts back to its own, the form disintegrates. Its power
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: for evil is thus destroyed by compassion, and hatred ceases
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: by love. Delusive forms of falsehood go forth into the
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: astral world. The man of knowledge sends against them forms
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: of truth. Purity breaks up foulness and charity selfish greed.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: As knowledge increases, this action becomes direct and purposive. The
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: thought is aimed with definite intent, winged with potent will.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Thus evil karma is checked in its very inception, and
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: naught is left to make a karmic tie between the
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: one who shot a shaft of injury and the one
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: who burned it up by pardon. The divine teachers, who
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: spake as men having authority on the duty of overcoming
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: evil with good, base their precepts on their knowledge of
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: the law. Their followers, who obey without fully seeing the
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: scientific foundation of the precept, lessen the heavy karma that
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: would be generated if they answered hate with hate. But
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: men of knowledge deliberately destroy the evil forms, understanding the
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: facts on which the teaching of the masters has ever
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: been based, and sterilizing the seed of evil, they prevent
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: a future harvest of pain at a stage which is
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: comparatively advanced in comparison with that of the slowly drifting
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: average humanity. A man will not only build his own
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: character and work with deliberate intent on the thoughtful that
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: come in his way, but he will begin to see
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: the past, and thus more accurately to gauge the present.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: Tracing karmic causes onwards to their effects, he becomes able
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  Speaker 1: to modify the future by consciously setting forces to work
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: designed to interact with others already in motion. Knowledge enables
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: him to utilize law with the same certainty with which
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: scientists utilize it in every department of nature. Let us
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: pause for a moment to consider the laws of motion.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: A body has been set in motion and is moving
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  Speaker 1: along a definite line. If another force be brought to
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  Speaker 1: bear upon it, differing in direction from the one that
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  Speaker 1: gave it its initial impulse, the body will move along
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  Speaker 1: another line, a line compounded of the two impulses. No
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: energy will be lost, but part of the force which
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: gave the initial impulse will be used up in partially
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: counteracting the new and the resultant direction along which the
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: body will move will be that neither of the first
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: force nor of the second, but of the interplay of
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  Speaker 1: the two. A physicist can calculate exactly at what angle
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: he must strike a moving body in order to cause
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: it to move in a desired direction, And although the
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: body itself may be beyond his immediate reach, he can
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  Speaker 1: send after it a force of calculated velocity to strike
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  Speaker 1: it at a definite angle, thus deflecting it from its
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: previous course and impelling it along a new line. In
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: this there is no violation of law, no interference with law,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: only the utilization of law by knowledge, the bending of
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: natural forces to accomplish the purpose of the human will.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: If we apply this principle to the molding of karma,
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: we shall readily see, apart from the fact that law
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: is inviolable, that there is no interference with karma. When
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: we modify its action by knowledge, we are using karmaic
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: force to affect karmic results, and once more we conquer
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: nature by obedience. Let us now suppose that the advanced student,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: glancing backwards over the past, sees lines of past karma
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: converging to a point of action of an undesirable kind.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: He can introduce a new force among these converging energies
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: and so modify the event, which must be the resultant
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: of all the forces concerned in its generation and ripening.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: For such action, he requires knowledge, not only the power
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: to see the past and to trace the lines which
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: connect it with the present, but also to calculate exactly
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: the influence that the force he introduces will exercise as
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: modifying the resultant, and further the effects that will flow
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: from this resultant considered as cause. In this way he
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: may lessen or destroy the results of evil wrought by
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: himself in the past by the good forces he pours
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: forth into his karmic stream. He cannot undo the past,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: he cannot destroy it, but so far as its effects
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: are still in the future, he can modify them or
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: reverse them by the new forces he brings to bear
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  Speaker 1: as causes, taking part in their production. In all this
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: he is merely utilizing the law, and he works with
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: the certainty of the scientist who balances one force against another,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: and unable to destroy a unit of energy, can yet
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: make a body move as he will by a calculation
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  Speaker 1: of angles and of moments. Similarly, karma may be accelerated
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: or delayed, and thus again will undergo modification by the
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: action of the surroundings amid which it is worked out.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: Let us put the same thing again a little differently,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: For the conception is an important and a fruitful one.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: As knowledge grows, it becomes easier and easier to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the karma of the past, inasmuch as causes
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  Speaker 1: which are working out to their accomplishment all come within
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  Speaker 1: the sight of the soul, which is approaching its liberation.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: As it looks back over past lives, as it glances
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: down the vista of centuries along which it has been
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: slowly climbing, it is able to see there the way
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  Speaker 1: in which its bonds were made, the causes which have
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: set in motion. It is able to see how many
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: of those causes have worked themselves out and are exhausted,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: how many of those causes are still working themselves out.
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  Speaker 1: It is able not only to look backwards, but also
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: to look forwards and see the effects these causes will produce,
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  Speaker 1: so that glancing in front, the effects that will be
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: produced are seen, and glancing behind, the causes that will
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: bring about these effects are also visible. There is no
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: difficulty in the supposition that, just as you can find
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: in ordinary physical nature, that knowledge of certain laws enables
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: us to predict a result and to see the law
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: that brings that result about. So we can transfer this
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: idea onto a higher plane and can imagine a condition
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  Speaker 1: of the developed soul in which it is able to
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: see the karmic causes that it has set going behind it,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: and also the karmic effects through which it has to
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: work in the future. With such a knowledge of causes
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: and a vision of their working out, it is possible
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: to introduce fresh causes to neutralize these effects. And by
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: utilizing the law, and by relying absolutely on its unchanging
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: and unvarying character, and by a careful calculation of the
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: forces set going to make the effects in the future
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  Speaker 1: those which we desire. That is a mere matter of calculation.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: Suppose vibrations of hatred have been set going in the past.
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  Speaker 1: We can deliberately set to work to quench these vibrations
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: and to prevent their working out into the present and future,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: by setting up against them vibrations of love, just in
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: the same way as we can take a wave of
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: sound and then a second wave, in setting the two
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: going one slightly after the other, so that the vibrations
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: of the denser part of the one shall correspond to
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: the rarer part of the other, And thus out of
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: sounds we can make silence by interference. So in the
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: higher regions it is possible by love and hate vibrations
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  Speaker 1: used by knowledge and controlled by will, to bring karmic
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  Speaker 1: causes to an ending, and so to reach equilibrium, which
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  Speaker 1: is another word for liberation. That knowledge is beyond the
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  Speaker 1: reach of the enormous majority. What the majority can do
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  Speaker 1: is this, if they choose to utilize the science of
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: the soul, they may take the evidence of experts on
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: this subject. They may take the moral precepts of the
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  Speaker 1: great religious teachers of the world, and, by obedience to
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: these precepts to which their intuition responds, although they may
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: not understand the method of their working, they may affect
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: in the doing that which also may be affected by
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: distinct and deliberate knowledge. So devotion and obedience to a
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: teacher may work towards liberation as knowledge might otherwise do.
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  Speaker 1: Applying these principles in every direction, the student will begin
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: to realize how man is handicapped by ignorance, and how
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: great is the part played by knowledge and human evolution.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: Men drift because they do not know. They are helpless
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: because they are blind. The man who would finish his
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: course more rapidly than will the common mass of men,
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  Speaker 1: who would leave the slothful crowd behind. As the racer
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: leaves the hack, he needs wisdom as well as love,
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  Speaker 1: knowledge as well as devotion. There is no need for
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: him to wear out slowly the links of chains forged
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  Speaker 1: long ago. He can file them swiftly through and be
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: rid of them as effectively as though they slowly rusted away,
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: to set him free. End of Section ten, Section eleven
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: of Karma. By any bessant, this LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain the ceasing of karma. Karma brings us
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  Speaker 1: ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: births and deaths. Good karma drags us back as relentlessly
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  Speaker 1: as bad. And the chain which is wrought out of
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: our virtues holds us firmly and as closely as that
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  Speaker 1: forged from our vices. How then, shall the weaving of
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: the chain be put an end to? Since man must
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: think and feel as long as he lives, and thought
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: and feelings are ever generating karma. The answer to this
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  Speaker 1: is the great lesson of the Bagavagida, the lesson taught
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  Speaker 1: to the warrior prince. Neither to hermit nor to student.
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  Speaker 1: Was that lesson given but to the warrior striving for victory.
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  Speaker 1: The prince immersed in the duties of his state, not
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  Speaker 1: in action, but in desire not in action, but in
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  Speaker 1: attachment to its fruit lies the binding force of action.
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  Speaker 1: In action is performed with desire to enjoy its fruit.
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  Speaker 1: A course is adopted with desire to obtain its results.
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  Speaker 1: The soul is expectant and nature must reply to it.
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  Speaker 1: It has demanded and nature must award to every cause.
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  Speaker 1: Is bound its effect to every action, Its fruit and
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  Speaker 1: desire is the cord that links them together, the thread
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  Speaker 1: that runs between. If this could be burned up, the
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  Speaker 1: connection would cease. And when all the bonds of the
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  Speaker 1: heart are broken, the soul is free. Karma can then
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: no longer hold it. Karma can then no longer bind it.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: The wheel of cause and effect may continue to turn,
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: but the soul has become the liberated life. Quote without attachment.
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  Speaker 1: To constantly perform action, which is duty. For performing action
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: without attachment, man verily reaches the supreme bagavagita. To perform
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: this karma yoga yoga of action, as it is called,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: man must perform every action merely as duty, doing all
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: in harmony with the law, seeking to conform to the
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: law on any plane of being on which he is busied.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: He aims at becoming a force working with the divine
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: will for evolution, and yields a perfect obedience in every
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  Speaker 1: phase of his activity. Thus, all his actions partake of
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  Speaker 1: the nature of sacrifice, and are offered for the turning
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  Speaker 1: of the wheel of the law, not for any fruit
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  Speaker 1: that they may bring. The action is performed as duty.
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  Speaker 1: The fruit is joyfully given for the helping of men.
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  Speaker 1: He has no concern with it. It belongs to the law,
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  Speaker 1: and to the law he leaves it for distribution. And
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  Speaker 1: so we read quote. Whose works are all free from
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  Speaker 1: the molding of desire, whose actions are burned up by
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  Speaker 1: the fire of wisdom, he is called a sage by
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  Speaker 1: the spiritually wise, having abandoned all attachment to the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of action, always content seeking refuge in none. Although doing actions,
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  Speaker 1: he is not doing anything free from desire, his thoughts
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  Speaker 1: controlled by the self. Having abandoned all attachment, performing action
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  Speaker 1: by by the body alone, he doth not commit sin.
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  Speaker 1: Content with whatsoever he receiveth free from the pairs of opposites,
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  Speaker 1: without envy, balanced in success and failure. Though he hath acted,
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  Speaker 1: he is not bound for with attachment, dead harmonious, his
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  Speaker 1: thoughts established in wisdom, his works sacrifices all his action
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  Speaker 1: melts away end bagavad Gita. Body and mind work out
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  Speaker 1: their full activities with the body all bodily. Action is
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  Speaker 1: performed with the mind, all mental. But the self remains serene, untroubled,
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  Speaker 1: lending not of its eternal essence to forge the chains
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  Speaker 1: of time right. Action is never neglected, but is faithfully
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  Speaker 1: performed to the limit of the available powers. Denunciation of
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  Speaker 1: attachment to the fruit, not implying any sloth or carelessness
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  Speaker 1: in acting. Quote. As the ignorant act from attachment to action,
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  Speaker 1: oh barrata, so should the wise act without attachment, desiring
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  Speaker 1: the maintenance of mankind. Let no wise man unsettle the
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  Speaker 1: mind of ignorant people attached to action, but acting in
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  Speaker 1: harmony with me. Let him render all action attractive en Bagavagita.
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  Speaker 1: The man who reaches this state of inaction in action
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  Speaker 1: has learned the secret of the ceasing of karma. He
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  Speaker 1: destroys by knowledge the action he has generated in the past.
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  Speaker 1: He burns up the action of the present by devotion.
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  Speaker 1: Then it is that he attains the state spoken of
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  Speaker 1: by John the divine in the real, in which the
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  Speaker 1: man goeth no more out of the temple for the
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  Speaker 1: soul goes out of the temple many and many a
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  Speaker 1: time into the plains of life. But the time arrives
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  Speaker 1: when he becomes a pillar, a pillar in the temple
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  Speaker 1: of my God. That temple is the universe of liberated souls,
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  Speaker 1: and only those who are bound to nothing for themselves
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  Speaker 1: can be bound to everyone in the name of the
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  Speaker 1: one life. These bonds of desire, then, of personal desire, nay,
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  Speaker 1: of individual desire, must be broken. We can see how
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  Speaker 1: the breaking will begin, and here comes in a mistake
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  Speaker 1: which many young students are apt to fall into, a
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  Speaker 1: mistake so natural and easy that it is constantly occurring.
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  Speaker 1: We do not break the bonds of the heart by
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill the heart. We do not break the
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  Speaker 1: bonds of desire by trying to turn our into stones
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  Speaker 1: or pieces of metal. Unable to feel, the disciple becomes
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  Speaker 1: more sensitive, not less so as he nears his liberation,
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  Speaker 1: he becomes more tender and not more hard. For the
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  Speaker 1: perfect disciple, who is as the master, is the one
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  Speaker 1: who answers to every thrill in the outside universe, who
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  Speaker 1: is touched by and responds to everything, who feels and
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  Speaker 1: answers to everything, who just because he desires nothing for
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  Speaker 1: himself is able to give everything to all. Such a
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  Speaker 1: one cannot be held by karma. He forges no bonds
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  Speaker 1: to bind the soul. As the disciple becomes more and
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  Speaker 1: more a channel of divine life to the world, he
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  Speaker 1: asks nothing save to be a channel with wider and
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  Speaker 1: wider bed along which the great life may flow. His
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  Speaker 1: only wish is that he may become a larger vessel,
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  Speaker 1: with less of obstacle in him, lid self to hinder
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  Speaker 1: the outward pouring of the life, working for nothing save
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  Speaker 1: to be of service. That is the life of discipleship,
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  Speaker 1: in which the bonds that bind are broken. But there
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  Speaker 1: is one bond that breaks not ever, the bond of
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  Speaker 1: that real unity, which is no bond, for I cannot
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  Speaker 1: be distinguished as separate that which unites the one to
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  Speaker 1: the all, the disciple to the Master, the Master to
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  Speaker 1: his disciple, the divine life which draws us ever onwards
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  Speaker 1: and upwards, but binds us not to the wheel of
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  Speaker 1: birth and death. We are drawn back to Earth, first
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  Speaker 1: by desire for what we enjoy there, then by higher
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  Speaker 1: and higher desires, which still have Earth for their region
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  Speaker 1: of fulfillment, for spiritual knowledge, spiritual growth, spiritual devotion. What
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  Speaker 1: is it when all is accomplished, that still binds the
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  Speaker 1: masters to the world of men? Not anything that the
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  Speaker 1: world can offer them. There is no knowledge on earth
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  Speaker 1: they have not. There is no power on earth that
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  Speaker 1: they willed not. There is no further experience that might
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  Speaker 1: enrich their lives. There is nothing that the world can
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  Speaker 1: give them that can draw them back to birth. And
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  Speaker 1: yet they come because a divine compulsion that is from
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  Speaker 1: within and not from without, sends them to the earth,
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  Speaker 1: which otherwise they might leave forever to help their brethren
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  Speaker 1: to labor century after century, millennium after millennium for the
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  Speaker 1: joy and service that make their love and peace ineffable,
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  Speaker 1: with nothing that the earth can give them, save the
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  Speaker 1: joy of seeing other souls growing into their likeness, beginning
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  Speaker 1: to share with them the conscious life of God. End
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  Speaker 1: of Section eleven twelve and conclusion of Karma by any vessent.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Collective karma,
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  Speaker 1: the gathering together of souls into groups, forming families, castes, nations, races,
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  Speaker 1: introduces a new element of perplexity into karmic results, and
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  Speaker 1: it is here that room is found for what are
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  Speaker 1: called accidents, as well as for the adjustments continually being
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  Speaker 1: made by the lords of karma. It appears that while
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  Speaker 1: nothing can befall a man that is not in his
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  Speaker 1: karma as an individual, advantage may be taken of, say
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  Speaker 1: a national or a seismic catastrophe, to enable him to
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  Speaker 1: work off a piece of bad karma which would not
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  Speaker 1: normally have fallen into the lifespan through which he is passing.
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  Speaker 1: It appears I can only speak here on speculatively, not
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  Speaker 1: having definite knowledge on this point, as though sudden death
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  Speaker 1: could not strike off a man's body unless he owed
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  Speaker 1: such a death to the law, no matter into what
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  Speaker 1: whirl of catastrophic disaster he may be hurled, he would
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  Speaker 1: be what is called miraculously preserved amid the death and
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  Speaker 1: ruin that swept away his neighbors and emerge unharmed from
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  Speaker 1: tempest or fiery outbreak. But if he owed a life
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  Speaker 1: and were drawn by his national or family karma within
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  Speaker 1: the area of such a disturbance, then although such sudden
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  Speaker 1: death had not been woven into his linga sharira for
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  Speaker 1: that special life, no active interference might be made for
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  Speaker 1: his preservation. Special care would be taken of him afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: that he might not suffer unduly from his sudden snatching
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  Speaker 1: out of earth life, but he would be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: pay his debt on the arising of such an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: brought within his reach by the wider sweep of the law,
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  Speaker 1: by the collective karma that involves him. Similarly, benefits may
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  Speaker 1: accrue to him by this indirect action of the law,
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  Speaker 1: as when he belongs to a nation that is enjoying
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  Speaker 1: the fruit of some good national karma, and he may
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  Speaker 1: thus receive some debt owed to him by nature, the
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  Speaker 1: payment of which would not have fallen within his present
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  Speaker 1: lot had only his individual karma been concerned. A man's
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  Speaker 1: birth in a particular nation is influenced by certain general
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  Speaker 1: principles of evolution, as well as by his immediate characteristics.
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  Speaker 1: The soul, in its slow development, has not only to
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  Speaker 1: pass through the seven root races of a globe I
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  Speaker 1: deal with the normal evolution of humanity, but also through
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  Speaker 1: the sub races. This necessity imposes certain conditions to which
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  Speaker 1: the individual karma must adapt itself, and a nation belonging
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  Speaker 1: to the sub race through which the soul has to
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  Speaker 1: pass will offer the area within us which the more
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  Speaker 1: special conditions needed must be found where a long series
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  Speaker 1: of incarnations have been followed. It has been found that
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  Speaker 1: some individuals progress from sub race to sub race very regularly,
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  Speaker 1: whereas others are more erratic, taking repeated incarnations perhaps in
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  Speaker 1: one sub race. Within the limits of the sub race,
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  Speaker 1: the individual characteristics of the man will draw him towards
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  Speaker 1: one nation or another, and we may notice dominant national
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  Speaker 1: characteristics re emerging on the stage of history and block
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  Speaker 1: after the normal interval of fifteen hundred years. Thus, crowds
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  Speaker 1: of Romans reincarnate as Englishmen, the enterprising, colonizing, conquering, imperial
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  Speaker 1: instincts reappearing as national attributes. A man in whom such
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  Speaker 1: national characteristics were strongly marked, and whose time for rebirth
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  Speaker 1: had come, would be drafted into the England nation by
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  Speaker 1: his karma, and would then share the national destiny for
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  Speaker 1: good or for evil, so far as that destiny affected
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  Speaker 1: the fate of an individual. The family tie is naturally
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  Speaker 1: of a more personal character than is the national and
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  Speaker 1: those who weave bonds of close affection in one life
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: tend to be drawn together again as members of the
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  Speaker 1: same family. Sometimes these ties recur very persistently life after life,
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  Speaker 1: and the destinies of two individuals are very intimately interwoven
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  Speaker 1: in successive incarnations, sometimes in consequence of the different lengths
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  Speaker 1: of the devachans necessitated by differences of intellectual and spiritual
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: activity during the earth lives spent together, members of a
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  Speaker 1: family may be scattered and may not meet again until
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  Speaker 1: after several incarnations. Speaking generally, the more close the tie
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  Speaker 1: in the higher regions of life, the greater the likelihood
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  Speaker 1: of rebirth in a family group. Here again, the karma
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  Speaker 1: of the individual is affected by the interlinked karmas of
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  Speaker 1: his family, and he may enjoy or suffer through these
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  Speaker 1: in a way not inherent in his own life karma,
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  Speaker 1: and so receive or pay karmic debts out of date,
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  Speaker 1: as we may say, so far as the personality is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: this seems to bring with it a certain balancing up
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  Speaker 1: or compensation in kama, loca and devachan, in order that
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  Speaker 1: complete justice may be done even to the fleeting personality.
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  Speaker 1: The working out in detail of collective karma would carry
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: us far beyond the limits of such an elementary work
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: as the present, and far beyond the knowledge of the writer.
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  Speaker 1: Only these fragmentary hints can at present be offered to
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  Speaker 1: the student. For precise understanding, a long study of individual
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  Speaker 1: cases would be necessary, traced through many thousands of years.
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  Speaker 1: Speculation on these matters is idle. It is patient observation
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  Speaker 1: that is needed. There is, however, one other aspect of
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  Speaker 1: collective karma, on which some word may fitly be said,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: the relation between men's thoughts and deeds and the aspects
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: of external nature. On this obscure subject, Madame Blavotsky has
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: the following following Plato Aristotle explained that the term elements
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: was understood only as meaning the incorporeal principles placed at
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: each of the four great divisions of our cosmical world
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  Speaker 1: to supervise them. Thus, no more than Christians to pagans
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  Speaker 1: adore and worship the elements and the imaginary cardinal points,
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  Speaker 1: but the gods that respectively rule over them. For the Church,
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: there are two kinds of sadeial beings, angels and devils.
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  Speaker 1: For the kabba zaalist and the occultists there is one class,
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  Speaker 1: and neither occultist nor cabalist makes any difference between the
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: rectors of light and the rectorous tenebraum or cosmocraturus, whom
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: the Roman Church imagines and discovers in the Rectors of Light.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: As soon as any one of them is called by
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: another name than the one she addresses him by. It
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: is not the rector or Maharajah who punishes or rewards
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: with or without God's permission or order, but man himself,
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  Speaker 1: his deeds or karma, attracting individually and collectively, as in
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: the case of whole nations. Sometimes every kind of evil
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: and calamity we produce causes, and these awaken the corresponding
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: powers in the sidereal world, which are magnetically and irresistibly
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: attracted to and react upon those who produce such causes,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: whether such per since are practically the evildoers or simply
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: thinkers who brewed mischief. For thought is matter, we are
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: taught by modern science, and every particle of the existing
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: matter must be a register of all that has happened,
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: As Messrs Jevins and Babbage, in their Principles of Science
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: tell the profane, modern science is every day drawn more
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: into the maelstrom of occultism, unconsciously, no doubt, still, very sensibly,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: thought is matter, not, of course, however, in the sense
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: of the German materialists Mahlshot, who assures us that thought
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: is the movement of matter, a statement of almost unparalleled absurdity.
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  Speaker 1: Mental states and bodily states are utterly contrasted as such,
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  Speaker 1: but that does not affect the position that every thought,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: in addition to its physical accompaniment brain change, exist bibbets
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: in objective though to us superstensuously objective aspect on the
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: astral plane end the secret doctrine. It seems that when
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: men generate a large number of malignant thought forms of
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: a destructive character, and when these congregate in huge masses
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: on the astral plane, their energy may be and is
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: precipitated on the physical plane, stirring up wars, revolutions, and
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: social disturbances and upheavals of every kind, falling as collective
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: karma on their progenitors and affecting widespread ruin. Thus, then,
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: collectively also man is the master of his destiny, and
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: his world is molded by his creative action. Epidemics of
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: crime and disease cycles of accidents have a similar explanation.
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: Thought forms of anger aid in the perpetration of a murder.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: These elementals are nourished by the crime and the result
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: of the crime. The hatred and the revengeful thoughts of
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: those who loved the victim, The fierce resentment of the criminal,
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: his baffled fury, when violently sent out of the world,
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: still further reinforce their host with many malignant forms. These,
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: again from the astral plane, impel an evil man to
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: fresh crime, and again the circle of new impulses is trodden,
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  Speaker 1: and we have an epidemic of violent deeds. Diseases spread,
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: and the thoughts of fear which follow their progress act
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: directly as strengtheners of the power of the disease. Magnetic
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: disturbances are set up and propagated and react on the
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: magnetic spheres of people within the affected area in every direction.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: In endless fashions do men's evil thoughts play havoc, as
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: he who should have been a divine co builder in
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: the universe, uses his creator of power to destroy conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Such is an outline of the great law of Karma
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  Speaker 1: and of its workings. By a knowledge of which a
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: man may accelerate his evolution, by the utilization of which
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: a man may free himself from bondage and become long ere.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: His race has trod in its course one of the
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: helpers and saviors of the world. A deep and steady
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: conviction of the truth of this law gives to life
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  Speaker 1: in a movable serenity and a perfect fearlessness. Nothing can
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: touch us that we have not wrought, nothing can injure
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: us that we have not merited. And as everything that
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: we have sown must ripen into harvest in due season
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  Speaker 1: and must be reaped, it is idle to lament over
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: the reaping. When it is painful. It may as well
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: be done now as at any future time, since it
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: cannot be evaded, and one once done, it cannot return
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  Speaker 1: to trouble us again. Painful karma may therefore well be
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: faced with a joyful heart, as a thing to be
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  Speaker 1: gladly worked through and done with. It is better to
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: have it behind us than before us, and every debt
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  Speaker 1: paid leaves us with less to pay. Would that the
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: world knew and could feel the strength that comes from
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: this resting on the law. Unfortunately, to most in the
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: Western world it is a mere chimera, and even among Theosophists,
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: belief in karma is more an intellectual assent than a
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: living and fruitful conviction, in the light of which the
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: life is lived. The strength of a belief, says Professor Baine,
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: is measured by its influence on conduct and belief in
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: Karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad.
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: Only our own deeds can hinder us. Only our own
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: will confetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, truth,
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  Speaker 1: and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: uses both in love. End of Section twelve and conclusion
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  Speaker 1: End of Karma by Annie Bessant