Karma and Rebirth

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

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KARMA IN ACTION are his deeds, so does it befall him."1 But between the will to act and the act is thought, the conception within the mind of which the act is the visible expression. It follows that control of thought, with which is included emotion, is a necessary prelude to control of action, for, as a man thinks, so he becomes.
Thus man, as spirit, as the highest self-conscious aspect of the One Life, rules the Universe with the aid of Karma. But once he has created Karma, as he does with every act, he must necessarily bow the knee to the Nemesis of his creation, and it is not for him to complain that Fate, against his will, has bound his actions or decreed an unjust doom. “Karma-Nemesis is no more than the spiritual dynamical cffcct of causes produced and forces awakened into activity by our own actions.” 2 The higher the plane from which the harmony of nature is disturbed, the more powerful the reaction to the act. It is a law of Occult dynamics that a given amount of energy expended on the spiritual or astral planes is productive of far greater results than the same amount expended on the physical, objective plane of existence.3
The Law of Karma, therefore, is utterly impersonal, being the servant of its creator, man, and not the whim of a benevolent or avenging God. It follows that it is useless to attempt to placate it, pray to it, argue with it or defy it ; for “as a man thinks, so he becomes”. Karmic Agents
Yet it is, be it emphasized, supremely intelligent, and it therefore works through intelligent agents. These agents are manifold in kind. The whole Cosmos is guided, controlled and animated by an almost endless series of Hierarchies of sentient Beings, each having a mission to perform, and who-whether we call them Dhyan Chohans or Angels
1 The Brihad Upanishad. 8 Ibid.
: The Secret Doctrine, H. P. Blavatsky.
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