Karma and Rebirth

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

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CHAPTER V
SOME DIFFICULTIES CONSIDERED
MANY persons on being first introduced to Karma demand the precise details of its working, and failing to receive them refuse to accept the Law. It is useful to ask them in reply if they know the nature of electricity. If they are truthful they answer, No. To which one may reply, Nor does one know the nature of Karma but, like our knowledge of electricity, we know just a little how it works. The rest is a matter of research and experience.
It is a strange aberration of the mind that refuses to accept a law of life because it cannot at present grasp its detailed working. We use X-rays, but know very little about them; use wireless and we are only on the fringe of 'how it works', and though we have used the laws of light for three generations we are now discovering that our knowledge, at any rate of the straightness of its rays, was far from full. Karma is true or untruc, and only the individual can decide in which category to place it. But to refuse to accept it on the ground that our knowledge of its working is limited is, to say the least of it, an immodest point of view.
It is sometimes said that Karma is cold, that it is heartless. Karma is neither warm nor cold. It is. But those who are justly fearful of a world. wherein law, as they conceive the term, is paramount, and love excluded from its scope, have nought to fear. If Karma is the Law of Harmony, so is love. Like Karma, "Compassion is no mere attribute. It is the Law of LAWS, eternal Harmony." So runs The Voice of the Silence, which is one of the oldest books in the world. Karma is an aspect of the One, the Unnameable; love is another. If Karma controls the relations of the myriad parts to cach other and the Whole, love is the cement that binds them all in One. He who regards Karma as a Law and his brother as separate from
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