Study in Karma

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

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48 A STUDY IN KARMA of affecting that outside world is Activity. This action is inevitably followed by a re-action from the outside world-karma. The inner cause of the re-action is Will; the nature of the re-action is due to Cognition; the immediate provoker of the re-action is Activity. These spin the three threads of the karmic rope.
THE THREE FATES
“God created man in His own image," says a Hebrew Scripture, and the trinities of the great religions are the symbols of the three aspects of the divine consciousness, reflected in the triplicity of the human. The First Logos of the Theosophist, the Mahadeva of the Hindu, the Father of the Christians, has Will as predominant, and shows forth the power of sovereignty, the Law by which the Universe is built. The Second Logos, Vishnu, the