Karma

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

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causes long delay-the Ego stands in the karmic vesture he has prepared for himself, ready to be "clothed upon ", to receive from the hands of the agents of the great Lords of Karma the etheric double built for him according to the elements he has himself provided, after which shall be shaped his physical body, the house which he must inhabit during his coming physical life. The individual and the personal Ego are thus immediately self-built, as it were what he thought on, that he has become; his qualities, his "natural gifts ", all these appertain to him as the direct results of his thinking; the man is in very truth self-created, responsible, in the fullest sense of the word, for all that he is.
But this man is to have a physical and etheric body that will largely condition the exercise of his faculties; he is to live in some environment, and according to this will be his outward circumstances; he is to tread a path marked out by the causes he has set going, other than those which appear as effects in his faculties; he has to meet events joyful and sorrowful, resulting from the forces he has generated. Something more than his individual and personal nature
1 Formerly called the Linga Sharira, a name that gave rise to much confusion.