Karma and Rebirth

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

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KARMIC AGENTS -are 'Messengers ' in the sense only that they are the agents of Cosmic or Karmic Laws. They vary infinitely in their respective degrees of consciousness and intelligence. ... Each of these Beings was, or prepares to become, a man.1 Such are the Buddhist Avalokiteshvara and Amitabha, and the four 'Regents of the Earth' who appear in many mythologies, and the Thrones, Dominions and Powers” of Christianity. But there is an ancient tradition that by reason of their own past Karına certain human beings act in a given life as focal points for mighty happenings, lightning conductors, as it were, through whom the Karmic force is 'carthed'. These are men to whom and about whom things of wide importance are always happening, whether they be at the head of a nation or a factory, but they are quite unconscious of their special, selfattracted function. Only a genuine Adept, one who has attained Enlightenment, can consciously control the forces of mass Karma, and so be a conscious agent of the Law. Incidentally, somewhere in this esoteric aspect of Karma must be incorporated the ' archetypal images' of Jung's discovery, but this, though a fruitful field for later research and consideration, is beyond the scope of the present volume. Karmic Responsibilities
It would scem that man is responsible only for such acts as are generated in the mind. He is not, in other words, responsible for actions where the thought or intent did not run with the deed. If, for example, in turning quickly on a station platforın someone bumps into a person standing close behind him, and so tips him on to the line in front of a train, he would not be responsible for a death which he never intended. Here the Law would seem to be the above' of which our English law is the reflected, though unconsciously reflected 'below.' For in English law there must, to constitute responsibility, not only be an actus reus, the wrongful deed, but also a mens rea,
1 The Secret Doctrine, H. P. Blavatsky.
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