The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-02-03
THE LAW OF KARMA.
VIEW OF a DISCIPLE OF THEos-
OPHY.
This IL the New Religion That l. Res
~ Oid-Llyed Up to Il Would, Like
All Others, Transform Earth Into a
Heaven.

lines in nature. every force tends q
return TO Us protector Once this law
Is recognized. we begin to see the phil
osophy underlying that homely adage
Curses. like chickens. come home TO
roost.' For 1900 years we In the west
ern world have heard "As a man SONS,
80 shall he reap" yet while glibly re-
citing this. we SOW Canada thistles and
then rail at fate because We do not
reap California peaches. Why? Sim
ply because the philosophy underlying
this Is not understood. We fail 10
see In man the master Of the cause
but the slave OF the effect Nature Is
conquered by obedience 10 It's laws.
Help Nature and work on with her.
and Nature will regard thee az one Of
her creatures and will make obel-
sance," says the Voice OF silence.
Karma. then. is the law which ad-
iusts effects 10 causes on all planes. II
Is the ultimate Law OF the universe. In
connection with the law Of rebirths--
reincarnatlon-it explains the prob
lens which now are vexing rs. Il eX-
plains the unequal distribution Of cap
ltal and labor. the distinction Of class
In society. Of sex Ia the affairs Of life,
the apparent injustice Of birth-one
man born In a hoycl. another In a
palace. one an imbecile another with
a vigorous, healthy intellect, one
reaching the age of fourscore and ten
In peace and plenty. the other cut OF
In his prime by a violent or "acclden-
tai death All that r. due 20 Kar-
ma. either racial national or indiyid-
ual. Man In his efforts toward the OK
panslon Of seli-Consciousness throws
himself out Of harmony with eosmic
law. the result OF the discord being
what We call pain aud suffering So
he learns that law has been disregard
ed. and the ultimate result l. obedi-
ence 70 law. the tendency ever being
10 restore equilibrium.
The two doctrines which modern
Christianity lacks tbut which Jesus
taught. are reincarnation and Karma.
the one depending on the other There
Is no mistaklng the words Of Christ.
with what measure ye mete It shall
be measured 10 you again Another
passage teaching both doctrines Il
found In Matthew v, &c. Verify ! say
unto thee. thou shalt by no means
come out Of thence TN thou hast paid
the uttermost farthing." implying the
Karmic ties that draw the soul back
20 rebirth In Matthew A., IA. the
statement l. mace clearly. II ye will
receive u. this Is Elias. which was fos
TO come a positive declaration that
Elias had incarnated In John the Bap.
list When the disciples asked why
Il was said that Elias would come be-
fore the Messiah. His answer was
Elias shall truly come first and re-
store all things. but say unto you
that Elias Is come already and they
knew Il not"
when the doctrine Of reincarnatlon
was stamped as a heresy at n general
council held by the early church after
the reign OF mental and spiritual dark
ness had set In that Of Karma went
also. with what measure ye mete
Il shall be measured 10 you again
gradually became a dead letter In the
church, the vlcarlous atonement
wrongly Interpreted seeming TO OF
Ter an escape. and 80 We have the VAR
Gus schemes TO enable man TO evade
the penalty OF his own wrong-doing.
The doctrine Of karma-absolute jus
tice-does not appeal 10 weak natures,
preierrlng TO shift the responsibility Of
their mlsdeeds on 10 the shoulders OF
their Creator-an idea which appears
TO theosophlsis little short OF bias.
phemy.
let us now take up the law Of Kar-
ma and try u possible TO see how Il
works. Science now Acknowledges
that thought precedes action, that no
action l. possible without the thought
or motive power behind Il; therefore.
thoughts are OF the most importance.
let as analyle this a little. Suppose
We take a mind with no past activities.
with nothing TO hinder ne perfect free
dom tan impossibIllty which some Of
our scientific Psychologists assumel
Suppose such mind 20 evolve a
thought. This thought. repeated many
times. becomes n habit OF mind" SO
that Il runs automatically into this
particular mold. suppose the grow.
Ing mind now disapproves Of this par
ucular form % thought tor Thought
form finds % a hlndauce. The will
by repeated efforts can change thl.
mental tendency and direct "a,
thoughts into other chan,els Re-.
peated coye,ous desires will crysialliE,
into thefts when the opportunity
comes. Thoughts directed toward
helping humanity will crystalline into
deeds OF unexpected horoim How
often We hear 10 said ~ had stopped
20 think I should not have done &c.
| The saturated mental solution needed
only the additional crystal 90 s0lldily
into action. As Ions as we have th,
| power 90 stop and think" We hay,
not yet reached ih, dlurgr line. ~,
are s,ill 'mlster of tho cause The
| liability Co stop and think on th
other hand shows tha, We have be
come the slave 20 the effect" Thus
We hud that the mind FORCES the feueI
and wears 10. and that while wearing
% @ can de through % by rcp,a,C
efforts Of the WILL Here we have ar
Instance OF small Karmlc cycle.
! Further analysis reveals the fac
that as repeated thoughts become ten.
denotes so painful experiences becom,
conscious and experiences In the aggre