Book Title: Power of Karma
Author(s): Alexander Cannon
Publisher: Rider and Co

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________________ 162 THE POWER OF KARMA midday heat, the Guru pointed to a pool where the lotus blossoms bloomed, and said to her : “Mud, water, sunshine, and lo, the miracle of the lotus Canst thou read me the riddle, O Chela ?” "If I have rightly heard thy teaching, Master,” she replied, "man is the flower of light growing upwards through the mud of the body and the water of the soul, into the sunlit ether of the spirit; and only when he attains the third and perfect state will he know that flower and stalk and root are one eternal substance.” “Thou hast well answered. ... Let it be granted that wise men represent the stalk in the lotus of humanity, and they must yearn with all their might from the mud of the root if mankind is ever to pass beyond the swaying of the shadowy waters, and know the glory of the light.” “And has this lotus never bloomed ?” “Once, in Christ." “What of his brethren, who went before ?” “They were as the ever-growing fullness of the bud, whose sweetness in Sakhya Muni thrilled the world, but the Christ was the open flower, the perfect cup, for He only conquered death, and realized in His own flesh the unity of the spirit, which is the resurrection and the life of the body.” This story annuls the statement that Life is short, and substitutes for it, “Life is eternal”.

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