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A STUDY IN KARMA
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In the earliest stages of savagery, as with the newly-born infant, action is caused by attractions and repulsions. But almost immediately memory comes in, the memory of an attraction, with the wish to re-experience it; the memory of a repulsion, with the wish to avoid it. A thing has given pleasure: it is remembered, ie, thought about, it is desired, action to grasp it follows. The three cannot really be separated. for there is no action which is not preceded by thought and desire, and which does not again set them going. after it is performed. Action is the outer sign of the invisible thought and desire. and in its very accomplishment gives birth , to a fresh thought and desire. The three form a circle, perpetually retraced.
THOUGHT, THE BUILDER
Now thought works on matter; every change in consciousness is answered
