Karma and Rebirth

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

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REBIRTH
undo the accumulated merit of many lives preceding, and every conquest made is painfully relative to the distance yet to be run.
Veil after veil will lift—but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
Change of Values
Those who accept or re-accept the Law of Karma will find that the new conception radically alters the prevailing point of view. Parents, for example, are seen with new eyes ; friends are probably old friends, and foes old enemies.' Places and people and even things are 'remembered'. The body is seen as an instrument to be, as a dog or horse, well cared for but well disciplined. The various parts in the drama-comedy of life are seen for what they are, so inany masks assumed for the part, then laid aside when the play is ended. The mental eyes are shortened and yet lengthened in their view. On the one hand, now is the time that matters, now when the lightest act is building the days unborn, here where the effects of every act must be digested, not in a heaven or hell to be known hercafter. On the other hand, death is not the end of the adventure. Infinite time is ours for thc using, and the space available is commensurate with the Universe. And the struggle is worth while.
Yea! whoso, shaking off the yoke of flesh Lives Lord, not servant, of his lusts ; set free From pride, from passion, from the sin of “Sell”, Toucheth tranquillity !...
Live where he will, Die when he may, such passeth from all 'plaining
To blest Nirvana, with the Gods, attaining. And Nirvana is but the death of self', the self that in its piteous pride is unaware that it is of the Essence of Purc Mind.
Yet sooner or later cach incarnation comes to an end. The mask begins to perislı and the actor, laden with new experience received through his senses and his perishable brain, longs for
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