Karma and Rebirth

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

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THE ENDING OF KARMA AND REBIRTH reached the end of his own immediate journey and attained his own Release, yet he may not 'interfere ' with another's Karma, nor would it help him if he could. From the beginning to the end of the journey man must travel alone, but he travels guarded, guided and in some way protected from his folly, and it is the aim of the noblest of mankind to add to that Guardian Wall. When the weary but triumphant Pilgrim nears the end of the journey, and the gates of Enlightenment swing wide to receive him with his due reward, Compassion speaks and says: "Can there be bliss when all the world must suffer ? Shalt thou be saved and hear the whole world cry?”1 And he who after a thousand lives of fierce endeavour has achieved self-mastery abandons all that he had striven to obtain, forgoes the guerdon of his efforts, and returns and by his Great Renunciation hastens the liberation of all mankind. Yet this too is the Law, for the Law is Justice, but the Law is also Love.
There are those who seek the Self by learning : those who seek it by devotion to the Beloved Ideal ; those who seek by the way of action. There is the path of Occultism, of the science of the spiritual forces which rule mankind ; there is the way of Mysticism, of a vision of the Goal whereby all else is seen as insignificant ; there is the way of Zen, that thrusts aside all obstacles and marches, not up the gentler paths of slow endeavour, but straightway up the hill. All these are ways within the Way, for the ways to the One are as many as the lives of men”, and each before he treads the Path must in truth become the Path, for the Life and the Truth and the Way are One, even as Karma uses and is used by all impartially. Karma is truth and the way to truth ; Karma is justice and therefore uses the illusion of time. But Karma is also love, for “ Love is the fulfilling of the Law"
1 The Voice of the Silence.
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