Study in Karma

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

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A STUDY IN KARMA
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system, considering all from the standpoint of consciousness, names this rhythmic quality 'cognisability,' that which makes that matter should be known by Spirit. All that is in our consciousness, affecting the environment, and all the environment affected by our consciousness, make up our world. The interrelation between our consciousness and environment is our karma. By these three modes of consciousness we spin our individual karma, the universal inter-relation between Self and NotSelf being specialised by us into this individual inter-relation. As we rise above separateness, the individual again becomes the universal inter-relation, but this universal inter-relation cannot be transcended while manifestation endures. This specialising of the universal, and the later universalising of the special make up the "world's eternal ways"-the Path of Forthgoing to gather experience, the Path of Return, bringing
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