Study in Karma

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

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KARMA DOES NOT CRUSH 31
I break no law when I put forth muscular force, and walk upstairs.
The inviolability of Law does not bind-it frees. It makes Science possible, and rationalises human effort. In a lawless universe, effort would be futile, reason would be useless. We should be savages, trembling in the grip of forces, strange, incalculable, terrible. Imagine a chemist in a laboratory where nitrogen was now inert, now explosive, where oxygen vivified to-day and stifled to-morrow! In a lawless universe we should not dare to move, not knowing what any action might bring about. We move safely, surely, because of the inviolability of Law.
KARMA DOES NOT CRUSH
Now karma is the great law of nature, with all that that implies. As we are able to move in the physical universe with security, knowing its