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
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