Karma and Rebirth

Author(s): Christmas Humphereys
Publisher: Albemarle Street London

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THE LAW OF KARMA The Ultimate Principle, which all the capital letters in the alphabet can never describe, is the Parabrahman of the Hindus, the Adi Buddha of the Mahayana Buddhists, thc Fana-al-Fana of the Sufis, and the Tao, in its highest sense, of the Taoists. It is, in the words of The Secret Doctrine, an Omnipresent, Etemal, Boundless and Immutable PRINCIPLE, on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception and can only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude. It is beyond the range and reach of thought. It is, as the writer later says, “ Be-ness ” rather than Being, and many prefer to consider it as the ultimate Namelessness. It is important to note further that “its impersonality is the fundamental conception of the System", and that it is therefore utterly beyond the limited and limiting belief in a personal God." It is latent in every atom of the Universe, and is the Universe itself.”
But “Be-ness,” to be cognizable to itself, must manifest, and the manifested Universe is the field of Becoming whereon the One unrolls into the Many and returns again. This periodic 'rolling and unrolling', as the Buddhist Scriptures call it, occupies immense though not, it is said, incalculable periods of time. It demonstrates the universality of that law of periodicity of flux and reflux, ebb and flow, which physical science has observed and recorded in all departments of nature ", and which is contained in the Buddhist doctrine of anicca, ceaseless change. The Universe when manifest is but of relative Reality, or Maya, yet deep in the heart of each of the Many is a fragment or ray of the One, and each human mind is an aspect or ray of the Universal Mind--the “ Essence of Mind” of the Sutra of Wei Lang-which is the 'appcarance of the Namelessness. Within this Field of Becoming the one has become Two. But no two things are cognizable without relationship, and with this relationship the Two become Three.
From Three in turn comes Scven, and from the Seven come
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