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

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________________ A STUDY IN KARMA LAWS: NATURAL AND MAN-MADE Much confusion has arisen in this matter, because, in the West, 'natural' laws have been regarded as apart from mental and moral laws, whereas mentai and moral laws are as much parts of natural law as the laws of electricity, and all laws' are part of the order of nature. Natural law has been, in many minds,' confused with human law, and the arbitrariness of human legislation has been imported into the realm of natural law. Laws affecting physical phenomena have been rescued from this arbitrariness by science, but the mental and moral worlds are still in the chaos of lawlessness. Not a divine cornmand, but the immanence of the divine nature, conditions our existence, and where prophets have laid down moral laws, these have been declarations of inevitable sequences in the moral world,

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