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A STUDY IN KARMA
result of an experiment might be a useful product, or it might be ihe reduction of the experimenter into fragments. Roger Bacon set going causes which cost him an eye and a finger, and occasionally stretched him senseless on the floor of his cell ; outside our knowledge we are in peril, and any cause we set going may wreck us, for we are mostly Roger Bacons in the mental and moral.worlds; inside our knowledge we may move with freedom and safety, as the well-trained chemist moves to-day. It is true in all the three worlds in which we live, that the more we know, the more can we foresee and control. Because law is inviolable and changeless, therefore knowledge is the condition of freedom. Let us then study karma, and apply our knowledge to the guidance of our lives. So many people say: “Oh! how I wish I were good," and do not use the law to create the
