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A STUDY IN KARMA
of our desires on ourselves is the gaining of opportunities and objects and of power; the reaction of our activities on ourselves is our environment the conditions and circumstances, the friends and enemies, that surround us. The nearest circumstance, the expression of part of our past activities, is our physical body; this is shaped for us by an elemental specially created for the task; our body is nature’s answer to such part of the sum of our past activities as can be expressed in a single material form, and 'nature' is here the Lords of Karma, the mighty Angels of Judgment, the Recorders of the Past. Two parts of karma we bring with us-our thought-nature and our desire-nature, the germinal tendencies we have created in our age-long past; the third part of karma we are born into, that which limits our Selfexpression and constrains us; our past action on the external world reacts upon
