Study in Karma

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

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THE MORE MODERN VIEW
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the evil desire-forms which arise from the evil in others, forms of thoughts and desires which float in the air around, and cannot wholly be shut out-save by occult means, unknown to the ordinary educationalist.
THE MORE MODERN VIEW
The more modern scientific view that organism and environment act and react upon each other, each modifying the other, and that from the modifications new actions and re-actions arise, and so on perpetually, takes in that which is true in each of the earlier views; it only needs to be expanded by the recognition of an enduring con-. sciousness, passing from life to life bringing its past with it, ever-growing, ever-evolving, and with its growth and evolution becoming an ever more and more potent factor in the direction and control of its future destiny.