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THE POWER OF KARMA and in a later passage he observes that "scarcely has the disaster befallen us than we have the strange sensation of having obeyed an eternal law”.*
By observing the operation of this eternal law of Karma we are forced to realize the fact that every experience we encounter, every pleasure, pain, triumph, or disappointmentis the precise result of the cause to which it is due. Voltaire said truly that “Chance is a word devoid of meaning." "There is no such thing as chance," wrote Schiller, "and what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
I wish to impress upon my readers that the law of Karma is not a problematical theory, or a matter of speculation, but a truth above the region of controversy.
In relating his experiences among the Adepts and Mystics of Hindoostan,t Dr. Hensoldt tells of his meeting and conversations with a venerable Adept named Coomra Sami, and known to the shepherds who lived in the valleys of Kashmir in the neighbourhood of his retreat as Samadhi Munshi, "the man who speaks seldom". From this sage, Dr. Hensoldt received
* "The Treasury of the Humble", p. 133. + The Occult Review, Vol. II, Dec. 1905.
