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A STUDY IN KARMA
COLLECTIVE KARMA
Before completing this imperfect study we must consider what is termed Collective Karma, the complex into which are woven the results of the collective thoughts, desires and activities of groups. whether large or small. The principles at work are the same, but the factors are far more numerous, and this multiplicity immensely increases the difficulty of understanding the effects.
The idea of considering a group as ! a larger individual is not alien from modern science, and such larger in. dividuals generate karma along lines similar to those which we have been studying. A family, a nation, a subsace, a race, are all but larger individuals, each having a past behind it, the creator of its present, each with a future ahead of it, now in course of creation. An ego coming into such a larger individual must share in its
