Power of Karma

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

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THE POWER OF KARMA a medium, or any intermediary, may interest my readers. I was sitting in my room one night, alone. The silence could be felt to an almost uncanny degree. I had just finished preparing a lecture on psychology to be delivered next day. It was nearing the hour of midnight, when I heard a knock on the door of my room : Taptap-tap. Rap-tap-tap-tap. I called out, “Come in,” thinking it was one of my colleagues coming to discuss some problem or other. The door opened slowly, but I could see no one. I got up to close the door, when I was startled by a voice : “Don't you trouble, Brother, I'll close it.” There was no question of hallucination or a trick of the imagination. I could compare the voice with the loudness of a clock which was ticking in the room. The door closed; then the voice said, "Put those lights out, and you'll see me.” I did so, and there before my eyes I clearly saw the form of a sage; whereupon the sage explained that he could control the physical through the astral plane, and recalled an occasion known to me when I was on the Western front. Smiling benevolently on me, he continued, "I am the ghost of the castle; I remember you in the days of the War; you did not see me, but I was the invisible power that lit a light in E- Castle every night when there was not