KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
Old Friendships
Another fact
of the greatest importance is that we are brought by karma in touch with people
whom we have known in the past, to some of whom we owe debts, some of whom owe
debts to us. No man treads his long pilgrimage alone, and the egos to whom he
is linked by many ties in a common past come from all parts of the
world to
surround him in the present. We have known some one in the past who has gone
ahead of us in evolution; perchance we then did him some service, and a karmic
tie was formed. In the present, that tie draws us within the orbit of his
activity, and we receive from outside us a new impulse of force, a power, not
our own,
impelling us to listen and to obey.
Many of such
helpful karmic links have we seen within the Theosophical Society. Long, long
ago, He who is the Master K.H. was taken prisoner in a battle with an Egyptian
army, and was generously befriended and sheltered by an Egyptian of
high rank.
Thousands of years later, help is needed for the nascent Theosophical Society,
and the Master, looking over India for one to aid in this great work, sees His
old friend of the Egyptian and other lives, now Mr. A.P. Sinnett, editing the
leading Anglo-Indian newspaper, The Pioneer. Mr. Sinnett goes, as usual, to
Simla; Mme Blavatsky goes up thither, to form the link; Mr. Sinnett is drawn
within the immediate influence of the Master, receives instruction from Him,
and becomes the author of The Occult World and of Esoteric Buddhism, carrying
to thousands the message of Theosophy. Such rights we win by help given in the
past, the right to help in higher ways and with further reaching effects, while
we ourselves are also helped by the tightening of ancient links of friendship
won by service, royally recompensed by that priceless gift of knowledge, gained
by one and shed abroad for many.
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KARMA
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Preface
Theosophy and the Masters General Principles
The Earth Chain Body and Astral Body Kama – Desire
Manas Of Reincarnation Reincarnation Continued
Karma Kama Loka
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Glossaries of Theosophical Terms
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