Karma and Rebirth

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

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FORETELLING
Even in peace we are causing war.
In our daily life we are competitive, aggressive, nationalistic, vengeful and self-seeking, which inevitably culminates in war. Intellectually and emotionally we are influenced and limited by the past, which produces the present reaction of hate, antagonism and conflict. Until our own lives are no longer aggressive and greedy, and psychologically we cease from seeking security, and so breaking up the world into different classes, races, nationalities and religions, there cannot be peace.1
THE FUTURE
The cause of war, therefore, is the individual mind which, in its ignorance of man's essential unity, wants everything for itself and therefore hates and fears its fellow men. But this war is an everlasting war within, and until each human being has slain the foc within he will not find peace "The without. man who wars against himself and wins the battle can do it only when he knows that in that war he is doing the one thing which is worth doing." 2
Foretelling the Future
If the future is the past and present not yet come, then it should be as possible to predict the future as it is to predict the future weather, providing, and it is a very large proviso, that all the causal factors are known. But just as a meteorologist can only predict from his known facts, and there are usually factors of which he has no information, so the fortune-teller, whether he be an astrologer dealing in world astrology or some other type considering the affairs of an individual, can only calculate from known factors to the resultant effect which is not yet manifest. If a single factor is missing the whole calculation is worthless. Much fortune-telling, however, is the work of persons whose psychic faculties, though quite untrained, are more awake than is usual in the Western world. They 'feel', by means of cards or other devices for concentrating their faculties, the cloud of unexpended Karma in the aura, or
1 Krishnamurti. Notes of a Talk in America. & Practical Occultism, H. P. Blavatsky.
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