This is as true in regard to a people as it is true in regard to a man, a society, an animal, a plant, or a rock. The Law of Karma is an universal law which acts within communities, Yea, even so within solar systems, as it acts in regard to individuals. Man is whatever he makes himself by his thoughts. A people on the whole may be looked upon as a compound individual, made up of a great many personalities, and yet being one entity to which the same law applies. Individuals, as well as communities, grow spirit-ually in proportion as they rise up to a higher ideal.
Heroes are the product of the growth of ideas.
This means that by entering willfully into sexual relations with another being, we be-come attached to it in our will, and a partaker of its future Karma. A woman to whom a man is bound by promise and sexual intercourse, becomes, as it were, a part of the man, and cannot be divorced from him by any ceremony or external separation. They constitute, so to say one mind, and the component part of the mind, which repre-sent the carnal man, are not separated until the time of the second death. Not of the Spiritual Soul, which needs no such union, it being already one with all other such souls in the substance of the Eternal SUN, but a union of that which constitutes the lower Mind of man. In regard to this subject, Paracelsus regards it as danger-ous to give further details.