Power of Karma

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

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KARMA
and results in polarization. In other words, we become positive. The magnetic currents of the polarized human being fall into harmonious adjustment, and the body becomes powerfully charged with a magnetic force which is termed in the New Testament, “Virtue”. The original Greek word for this is dunamis, from which we get dynamo, dynamic, etc. One who has developed a powerful and controlled will may be aptly described as a living dynamo.
I must refer, in closing this chapter, to the story of a woman, recorded by Mark in Chapter v, as it offers a most interesting example both of the action of Karma and of the will. This woman had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered but rather grew worse. The reports of the wonderful power of the Master Jesus had fired her imagination, and she had pictured herself as being cured by His power. She envisaged an ideal of a perfect healthy body, and made a persistent effort of the Will to realize her ideal. Concentrating her mind on this end, she pushed through the crowd, and touched the Master. Her steadfast persistence and the output of energy in her demand for healing evoked a response in correspondence with the
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