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general karmą; his own special karma has brought him into it, and must be worked out within it, the larger karma often offering conditions which enable the smaller to act.
FAMILY KARMA
FAMILY KARMA
Let us consider the collective karma of a family. The family has a thoughtatmosphere of its own, into the colouring of which enter family traditions and customs, family ways of regarding the external world, family pride in the past, a strong sense of family honour. All the thought-forms of a member of the family will be influenced by these conditions, built up perhaps through hundreds of years, and shaping, moulding, colouring, all the thoughts, desires and activities of the individual newly born into it. Tendencies in him. that conflict with family traditions will be suppressed, all unconsciously to him;
