Study in Karma

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

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MAN IN THE THREE WORLDS
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and mental, is put into contact with each by a body formed of its type of matter, and acts in each through the appropriate body. He therefore creates results in each according to their respective laws and powers, and all these come within the all-embracing law of karma. During his daily life in waking consciousness, he is creating 'karma,' i.l., results, in these three worlds, by action, desire ånd thought. While his physical body is asleep, he is creating karma in two worlds—the emotional and the mental, the amount of karma then created by him depending on the stage he has reached in evolution.
We may confine ourselves to these three worlds, for those above them are not inhabited consciously by the average man; but we should, none the less, remember that we are like trees, the roots of which are fixed in the higher worlds, and their branches spread in he three lower worlds in which dwell