Papus makes a man's Necessity the sum of his past acts, "de ce que les Indous appellent son Karma", and adds that the "idée est aussi celle de Pythagore". The proof is a juxtaposition: Blavatsky's Isis on Upādāna and Karma, then a passage of Fabre d'Olivet's commentary on the Golden Verses, whose footnote Papus heads with the word Karma. Fabre's book, published in 1813 and on this shelf in Redfield's English, speaks of Providence, Destiny and the Will of man, and of a future composed of the past; the word Karma does not occur in it. The equation of Pythagorean Necessity with Karma is made by Papus's arrangement of the two quotations, and is then reported as the doctrine of the ancient sanctuaries.
cites The Golden Verses of Pythagoras — with commentary (1917)