The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-29
MRS. THIRDS LECTURE.
LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION
TREATED.
Every Thoght Is Responsible for "A Form
and We Reap Whatsoever We
Have Sown.

ecturess was "Karma, or, in English,
'causs and effect" The speaker con-
tinued for an hour in a very interesting
manner and the lecture was uninter-
rupted to the close.
At 8 o'clock sharp Mrs. Thirds adj
vanced to the front of the table and
said:
The most sorruwful and strangest
thing in the world is injustice. There
is no place and no time at which men
do not suffer and they think unjlstly.
These things have puzzled the world
from time immemorial. After all the
talk, the reasoning, the world is full of
sorrow, of suffering.
And yet if we look out in the universe
everything is law: there is no
chance. All things in this world
grow according to law. No where
do we really investigate and
learn, but we find law. On the mind
plane does the same obtain. In the
mind realm it is now becoming possible
to study something of the mental laws.
Theosophists assert that everything i'll
the universe, every realm of nature,
however obscure, everything acts in
obedience to law.
This is called Karma. That term
means action and also reaction. The
two terms can never be separated in our
life any more than in nature. A force,
which is action, must react. This in
the mind, or thought does not come
like blow. The reaction of feeling
does not so come.
The word Karma is usually applied to
the moral plane, as it is justice. The
word comes to the mind as the law
relating to the moral world. Karma is
not questioned by nations who have
been taught spirit law. In the West
men have operated upon the material
plane. Indeed, we have no psychology
in the Western world, and only in the
East can we hope to gain knowledge OF
Karma.
Man is his own creation. We weave
our own destiny. The thought is a
potent force and photographs itself on
invisible matter. This will be under
stood by those who can see into ether,
or as we say, astral light. Thought
causing form on this plastic substance
is followed by nature, what we call the
monad. From the astral light the
thought is evolved into matter. Every
created thing comes from thought. By
our thoughts we have buided what is
around us. Ii we, by our thoughts, fill
the world with shapes of hatred should
we not suffer by being brought back to
live among them ? Karma is what the
Greeks call Nemesis. In nature there is
no force so great as Karma. 1t is i'm
personal. Man is partial; the gods, the
great forces of nature, are impartial
and bring into the world just what we
have made.
In this path of development we are
frequently unjust to one another. All
and best in the universe belongs to us
ALTO the universal brotherhood. II
there are some who seem above us, then
are there others who are below. We
are all treading the same path. If on,
be rich, another poor, what in thai
should cause distress! Every one viii
| have the same experience, the sam,
hardships and the same joys.
Castles were originally arranged il
India-not according to birth or posses
sions, but character. The highest o
first caste was the Brahmin. They wer
even superior to the pri' SITS, and pos
sessed the spiritual knowledge. Til,
next class was the war class. The,
learned in that class no
to flee from battle. The next cast
was the merchants. Theirs was +
look after the material welfare of tn
country. The lowest class was tn
sulra.
Until we have learned obedience an
service we are Iething. Only he VIII
can teach and command has learned t
obey. The farther we go the NOR
completely do we feel ourselves under
higher power. Thus in India eac
caste endeavored to perform. the dutie
of that class. The lowest possessed tn
same spiritual qualifications of tn
higher, but must needs advance upon tn
different planes to that finer perfection
We must learn the lesson OF love an
charity. Karma brings us into tina
condition where we can develop tn
> trait that is lacking. Ii we refuse t
, help one in distress, that is "a force o
| the moral plane. Being ON a
equilibrium Karma will bring
us that which we have prepared
: In this way is justice done. Ii we set
pitfall for our brother we ourselves sha
TALL into it, if not in this life in anothe
karma will have us reap what we hay
sown. Do what you Will, think WIFI
: YOU will, the result will come as sure ;
the corn springs from the grain OF corr
BY that law we are chained to our ow
creation.
1 What has brought us into this el
vironment? Some do know and ca
map out the processes OF development
Karma has made us what we are. o.
moral rs well as physical condition
T. the result OF our past. You may :,
,. this is fatalism. Not so, Tor we are fir
= agents. Karma gives us our embed
ment, but it leaves the spiritual for
free to act. You can choose the right
the wrong act. We are only imprison
n as regards the past. We can improy
Each day we can SOW fresh seed al
=, each moment we are helping to bui
the house which we shall inhabit. v
are free AT every moment, bound on
to the past.
We must, however, advance or retI
. grade. We can take the next step q
e ward. Therefore, fatalism is n
i Karma. With Karma is progress, b
with fatalsm the world must remain
a standsull. We are apt to look up
life as a time for happiness. So; b
. the world is what we have made
u When we suffer 1t is because we ha
81 done wrong-broken the laws. Truub
m are the lessons of nature. Wishing