Karma and Rebirth

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

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WHAT KARMA EXPLAINS psychic envelope, and try to read it. Being untrained they are seldom accurate, and though palmistry, physiognomy and the like might conceivably, at a later stage in man's evolution, develop into sciences, they are, at our present stage, a poor substitute for knowledge, even assuming that such knowledge is to be desired. But is it? Or does this morbid craving to lift the veil of the future lead but to a weakening of the will ? Certainly it is a miserable substitute for the planned and purposeful development of all one's faculties by the conscious user of the Law. The first type wonders what the future will bring ; the other decides it. Further Advantages
The advantages of working by the Law of Karma have no end. As already explained, the Law provides a graded sanction or reason for right living. At the worst, it is seen that it pays to be good ; higher than this, it proves that men are in essence one, and that any deed which hurts one's neighbour or the commonweal is an injury to oneself; finally, it reveals a world or a plane of consciousness where right becomes the inmost law of being, and a man does right, not because it pays or because it avoids self-injury, but because, beyond all argument, he must.
Karma destroys the cause of envy and jealousy and the consequent ill-will, for your neighbour is more fortunate than you because he has carned a better fortune. It removes impatience, for when there is all but infinite time ahead, why worry the fretful hour ? It largely removes the fear of death, for where there is inner conviction of rebirth and, by the law of affinity, reunion sooner or later with those one loves, why worry that the hour must come for leaving the present robes and resting, ere returning, robed anew, for fresh experience ? Karma and Modern Psychology
Psychology, the Cinderella of Western science, is yet in its infancy, but any doctrine must sooner or later come to terms
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