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1KARMA 63 taught that the first or pre-adamite men, i.e., those of the golden age, were perfect. How, then, did this abominable karma get a start in the world? This question it is our duty to fully explain in the present chapter. We have given a general idea of the Karma of Theosophical Budd¬ hism, and before revealing the origin of this Oriental delusion we will present the Hermetic doctrine of Karma. I. Karma is not an active principle, but, on the contrary, it is crystallized force. It is the picture gallery or cosmic play of Nature. II. Karma constitutes the scenery, essence and mental imagery of a person's past existence. It is a picture of their acts while on earth that become living realities to them in the soul world. III. The karmic sphere of an individual’s existence, exists as the astral life currents along which the soul has traveled and which be¬ come crystallized forms, expressive of the actions and the motives which prompted them. Therefore, our past karma constitutes the soul’s past history in the astral light, and can be deciphered by the properly trained lucid, and even by some mediumistic clairvoyants.
2IV. Karma is the offspring of everything; everything possesses pictorial records of its past evolutions; stones, plants, animals and men. It is by means of this karma that the Psychometric sensitive can read the unwritten past of small karmas. Without karma, the powers of Psychometry would be useless. On a grander scale exists the karma of moons, planets, suns and systems. Races of men, species of animals and classes of plants, also evolve special racial karmas which constitute their astral world. V. The harmonies and discords of cosmic evolution generate their special karma just the same as thoughts and emotions produce cor¬ responding reactions. VI. Karma is absolutely confined to the realms of the astral light, and consequently, is always subjective. Therefore, Karma can exist only as long as the soul, which generates it, is attached to the same planet. When a soul leaves the planet its karma disintegrates. A soul cannot carry its karma around the universe with it, because this astral light differs in quality and degree upon each separate orb. See Chap. II. VII. When a soul enters the spiritual states of the soul world (which Buddhists term Devachan), the power of its earthly karma can never re-attract it to earth; its influence over the soul is forever lost. rv r njt r*nnnlf> Original from Digilized by UHIVER5ITV OF MICHIGAN 64 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3The lower can never control the higher, when once they exist apart. To assert that past fossilized karma can re-attract the soul from the realms of spiritual happiness and re-project it into the mire of earth is to exalt matter to the throne of Deity, and degrade pure spirit to the level of a passive brute substance.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1KARMA 63 taught that the first or pre-adamite men, i.e., those of the golden age, were perfect. How, then, did this abominable karma get a start in the world? This question it is our duty to fully explain in the present chapter. We have given a general idea of the Karma of Theosophical Budd¬ hism, and before revealing the origin of this Oriental delusion we will present the Hermetic doctrine of Karma. I. Karma is not an active principle, but, on the contrary, it is crystallized force. It is the picture gallery or cosmic play of Nature. II. Karma constitutes the scenery, essence and mental imagery of a person's past existence. It is a picture of their acts while on earth that become living realities to them in the soul world. III. The karmic sphere of an individual’s existence, exists as the astral life currents along which the soul has traveled and which be¬ come crystallized forms, expressive of the actions and the motives which prompted them. Therefore, our past karma constitutes the soul’s past history in the astral light, and can be deciphered by the properly trained lucid, and even by some mediumistic clairvoyants.
2IV. Karma is the offspring of everything; everything possesses pictorial records of its past evolutions; stones, plants, animals and men. It is by means of this karma that the Psychometric sensitive can read the unwritten past of small karmas. Without karma, the powers of Psychometry would be useless. On a grander scale exists the karma of moons, planets, suns and systems. Races of men, species of animals and classes of plants, also evolve special racial karmas which constitute their astral world. V. The harmonies and discords of cosmic evolution generate their special karma just the same as thoughts and emotions produce cor¬ responding reactions. VI. Karma is absolutely confined to the realms of the astral light, and consequently, is always subjective. Therefore, Karma can exist only as long as the soul, which generates it, is attached to the same planet. When a soul leaves the planet its karma disintegrates. A soul cannot carry its karma around the universe with it, because this astral light differs in quality and degree upon each separate orb. See Chap. II. VII. When a soul enters the spiritual states of the soul world (which Buddhists term Devachan), the power of its earthly karma can never re-attract it to earth; its influence over the soul is forever lost. rv r njt r*nnnlf> Original from Digilized by UHIVER5ITV OF MICHIGAN 64 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3The lower can never control the higher, when once they exist apart. To assert that past fossilized karma can re-attract the soul from the realms of spiritual happiness and re-project it into the mire of earth is to exalt matter to the throne of Deity, and degrade pure spirit to the level of a passive brute substance.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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