Book Title: Study in Karma
Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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________________ NATIONAL KARMA 101 Where the .family karma is bad the individual born into it suffers, as in the former case he profits, and the collective karma hinders, as in the former instance it promoted, his welfare. In both cases the individual will usually have built up in himself characteristics which demand for their full exercise the environment provided by the family. But a very strong personal tie, or unusual service, might, without this, draw a man into a family wherein was his beneficiary, and so give him an opportunity which, generally, he had not deserved, but had won by this special act of his past. von NATIONAL KARMA Let us think on the collective karma of a nation. Face to face with this, the individual is comparatively helpless, for nothing he can do can free him

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