Power of Karma

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

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CHAPTER V
VIBRATIONS AND RAYS
EVERY day we hear of some new discovery in connection with rays of one kind or another. Science tells us that we pass our lives in a world of vibrations and rays, of waves and wavelengths. A writer in The Evening News (Sept. 30th, 1935), Mr. W. Shepherd, points out that though we may not all be "little rays of sunshine," every one of us is certainly a little bundle of rays of something.
From distant ages astrologers have insisted that planetary rays are accountable for many things which happen to the earth and its inhabitants, for wars and earthquakes, prosperity and adversity, and the incidents and accidents of mortal life. Now we find that even more powerful than any solar, lunar, or planetary rays, are the universal cosmic rays which act upon us continually from the depths of space.
The cosmic rays are thirty-six times as powerful as X-rays, and constitute one-tenth of all the radiation which falls on the earth, excepting that
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