Karma

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

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57 build the mould that limits, choose the environment, and generally adapt and adjust, in order that the good law may find its unerring expression despite the clashing wills of men.
Facing Karınic Results
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Sometimes people feel, on first recognizing the existence of karma, that if all be the working out of Law they are but helpless slaves of destiny. Before considering how the Law may be utilized for the control of destiny, let us study for a few moments a typical case, and see how necessity and freewill—to use the accepted terms—are both at work, and at work in
harmony.
A man comes into the world with certain inborn mental faculties, let us say of an average type, with a passional nature that shows definite characteristics, some good, some bad; with an etheric double and physical body fairly well-formed and healthy, but of no specially splendid character. These are his limitations, clearly marked out for him, and he finds himself when he reaches manhood with this mental, passional, astral, physical “ stock-in-hand", and he has to do the best he can with it. There are many mental heights