Karma

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

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75 on earth that they wield not; there is no further experience that might enrich their lives; there is nothing that the world can give them, that can draw them back to birth. And yet they come, because a divine compulsion that is from within and from without sends them to the earth—which otherwise they might leave for ever—to help their brethren, to labour century after century, millennium after millennium, for the joy and service that make their love and peace ineffable with nothing that the earth can give them, save the joy of seeing other souls growing into their likeness, beginning to share with them the conscious life of God.
Collective Karma
The gathering together of souls into groups, forming families, castes, nations, races, introduces a new element of perplexity into karmic results, and it is here that room is found for what are called “ accidents ” as well as for the adjustments continually being made by the Lords of Karma. It appears that while nothing can befall a man that is not “in his karma ” as an individual, advantage may be taken of, say, a national or a seismic catastrophe to enable him to work off a piece of bad karma which would not normally have