Study in Karma

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

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A STUDY IN KARMA
The developed man is able to draw his energies together and to fuse them into one, ready to go forth from him, and to cause action. This concentration of his energies into a single force, held in suspense' within him, in leash 'ready for outrush, is Will; it is an interior concentration, one mode of the triple Self-expression. In the sub-human kingdoms, and in the lower divisions of the human,' the pleasuregiving and pain-giving objects around the living creature draw out its energies, and we call these multifarious energies brought out by external objects its desires, whether of attraction or replusion. Only when these are all drawn in, united and pointed towards a single aim, can we term this single energy, ready to go forth, the Will. This Will is Self-expression, .e., it is directed by the Self; the Self determines the line to be taken, basing its determination on previous experience. In the