Power of Karma

SR No.: 011106
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Alexander Cannon
Publisher: Rider and Co
Total Pages: 191
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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THE POWER OF KARMA away and ejected from the mind, we come into the opposite good. This is in accord with an established divine order.
When we take up into our intellectual consciousness the morbid idea in the mind of the patient, or take upon ourselves intellectually, but not sensationally, his spiritual condition, we vicariously represent him in our own person, and bear that condition away from him, and prepare the soil of his soul for the reception of the seed of healing and saving truth. Thus did Jesus. He bore, or represented in His own person the sins of men. (1 Pet. ii, 24.) He affirms that His works can be repeated by his followers. (John xiv, 12.) In the case of the cure of the paralytic, mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, there are many valuable hints which can be taken advantage of in the psychological method of cure. One is that the remission of sin, or the banishment from the mind of a patient of the error or false idea, of which the disease is the physical counterpart or material expression, is equivalent to the cure of the malady. It is also affirmed that God has given to the “Son of man"-a purely Kabalistic expression for man, as to his soul-principle -power to do this. The spirit is the real man and Son of God. The soul, as being generated by the spirit, is the son or offspring of the real man. This, when pervaded by the life of the spirit, has power on earth to bear away from the mind of another a false idea or sin. This is clearly taught in that remarkable passage in the Gospel of John, which contains a