Karma

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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idea should be presented to him, he can only see it through this atmosphere that surrounds him, which must colour it and may seriously distort. Here, then, are karmic limitations of a far-reaching kind, that will need further consideration.
The influence of these congregated elementals is not confined to that which they exercise over men through their desire bodies. When this collective entity, as I have called it, is made up of thought-forms of a destructive type, the elementals ensouling these act as a disruptive energy and they often work much havoc on the physical plane. A vortex of disintegrating energies, they are the fruitful sources of “accidents”, of natural convulsions, of storms, cyclones, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods. These karmic results will also need some further consideration. The Making of Karma in Principle PI
Having thus realized the relation between man and the elemental kingdom, and the moulding energies of the mind—verily, creative energies, in that they call into being these living forms that have been described -we are in a position to at least partially understand something of the generation and working out of karma during a single life-period. A “life-period”,