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11. The Ceasing of Karma Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices. How then shall […]

10. Moulding Karma The man who has set himself deliberately to build the future will realize, as his knowledge increases, that he can do more than mould his own character, thus making his future destiny. He begins to understand that he is at the centre of things in a very real sense, a living, active,

9. Building the Future The crowds of souls drift onwards along the sluggish current of time. As the earth rolls, it carries them with it; as globe succeeds globe, they too pass on. But the wisdom religion is proclaimed anew to the world that all who choose may cease to drift, and may learn to

8. Facing Karmic Results Sometimes people feel, on first recognizing the exist­ence of karma, that if all be the working out of Law they are but helpless slaves of destiny. Before consider­ing how the Law may be utilized for the control of destiny, let us study for a few moments a typical case, and see

7. The Working out of Karma When the soul has lived out its devachanic life, and has assimilated all that it can of the material gathered during its last period on earth, it begins to be drawn again towards earth by the links of desire that bind it to material existence. The last stage of

6. The Making of Karma in Detail The soul in man, the ego, the maker of karma, must be recognized by the student as a growing entity, a living individual, who increases in wisdom and in [30] mental stature as he treads the path of his aeonian evolution; and the fundamental identity of the higher

5. The Making of Karma in Principle Having thus realized the relation between man and the elemental kingdom, and the moulding energies of the mind—verily, creative energies, in that they call into being these living forms that have been described—we are in a position to at least partially understand something of the generation and working

4. Activity of Thought-Forms The life-period of these ensouled thought-forms depends first on their initial intensity, on the energy bestowed upon them by their human progenitor; and secondly on the nutriment supplied to them after their generation, by the repetition of the thought either by him or by others. Their life may be continually rein­forced

3. THE GENERATION OF THOUGHT-FORMS We, are now in a position to more clearly understand the Master’s words. The mind, working in its own region, in the subtle matter of the higher psychic plane, [9] generates images, thought-forms. Imagination has very accurately been called the creative faculty of the mind, and it is so in

2. THE PLANES OF NATURE To study the workings of Karma on the line suggested by the Master, we must gain a clear conception of the three lower planes, or regions, of the universe, and of the Principles [See, for these, MANUAL 1] related to them. The names given to them indicate the state of