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. A vice forcibly repressed, unless displaced by a virtue, will accumulate strength until the pent-up force is followed by an explosion. 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 spiritually 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 become 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 represent the carnal man, are not separated until the time of the second death. Man has two spirits, a Divine and an animal spirit. He ought to live according to the life of the Divine Spirit and not according to that of the animal.