Study in Karma

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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of his facts, he acts with indubitable assurance, and nature, without shadow of turning, rewards his rational certainty with success.
Out of this assurance grows sublime patience of the investigator Luther Burbank, in California, will sow millions of seeds, select some thousands of plants, pair a few hundreds, and patiently march to his end; he can trust the laws of nature, and, if he fails, he knows that the error lies with him, not with them.
There is a law of nature that masses of matter tend to move towards the earth. Shall I then say: "I cannot walk up the stairs; I cannot' fly in the air"? Nay, there are other ' laws. I pit against the force that holds me on the ground, another force stored in my muscles, and I raise my body by means of it. A person with muscles weak from fever may have to stay on the ground-floor, helpless; but
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