Karma

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

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the Good Law is working with undeviating accuracy, that its Agents apply it everywhere with unerring insight, with unfailing strength, and that all is therefore very well with the world and with its struggling souls. Through the darkness rings out the cry, “ All is well,” from the watchmen souls who carry the lamp of Divine Wisdom through the murky ways of our human city.
Some of the principles of the working out of the Law we can see, and a knowledge of these will help us in the tracing out of causes, the understanding of effects.
We have already seen that Thoughts build Character; let us next realize that Actions make Environment.
Here we have to do with a general principle of farreaching effect, and it will be well to work it out a little into detail. By his actions man affects his neighbours on the physical plane; he spreads happiness around him, or he causes distress, increasing or diminishing the sum of human welfare. This increase or diminution of happiness may be due to very different motives--good, bad or mixed. A man may do an act that gives widespread enjoyment from sheer benevolence, from a longing to give happiness to his fellow creatures; let us say that from such a motive he