Power of Karma

Author(s): Alexander Cannon
Publisher: Rider and Co

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KARMA appetites and passions such as greed, lust, envy, and hatred. At one end of the scale is perfect love, an expansion of human capacities, and at the other end confirmed hate, a state of contraction of capacity and outlook. Man thus finds himself occupying a middle position between two extremes of development. All that I have written in my popular books, and the narration of my own experiences, is meant to show that at this very moment in the life of my readers the choice lies before them to proceed towards the development of either range of vibrationsthe higher or the lower. Life is synonymous with motion, and there is no possibility of remaining still. By the law of Karma, every moment, every thought, every action produces its own vibration in ourselves and in the Universe of which we are an integral part. Thus, every vibration determines inevitably the thought and action of the next moment, the next day or year or of any other period of time we can imagine. “The man for whom the hour of misfortune has sounded," says Maeterlinck, "is caught up by an invisible whirlwind, and for years back have these powers been combining the innumerable incidents that must bring him to the necessary moment, to the exact spot where tears be in wait for him" ;