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fere when we have knowledge, for we canhot annihilate any natural force, nor prevent it from acting. But we can neutralise, we can turn aside, its action if we have at command another sufficient force, and while it will never abate for us one jot of its activity, it can be held up, opposed, circumvented, exactly according to our knowledge of its nature and working, and the forces. at our disposal. Karma is no more 'sacred' than any other natural law; all laws of nature are expressions of the divine nature, and we live and move within them; but they are not mandatory; they are forces which set up conditions amid which we live, and which work in us as well as outside of us; we can manipulate them as we understand them, and as our intelligence unfolds we become more and more their masters, until the man becomes super-man, and material nature becomes his servant.
