KARMA (LAW DD 0l
CAUSE AND EFFECT, LAW OF (EP 148)
The Law of Cause and Effect is recognized by
scientists as well as mystics. The Divine Law of growth, harmony and balance,
requires action to result in reaction. Every deed, thought and emotion has a
consequence, either favourable or detrimental. Karma, a term from the East, is
the accumulation of the "effects". Not limited to the gross material
plane, this instructional Law can operate over several lifetimes as well as
within much shorter periods.
DD 0l CAUSE AND
EFFECT, LAW OF (ET 186)
The Law of Cause and Effect is recognized by scientists as well as by mystics. The Divine Law requires every action to result in a reaction. Yet, whereas Eastern religions often teach a deterministic view of this Law - -terming it karma--, we believe that debts can be borne for others or transcended through repentance and reparation. The Law of Cause and Effect operates over several lifetimes as well as within much shorter periods.
REPENTANCE
(ET 195)
The Greek word "metanoia" for repentance signifies primarily a "change of mind" or "change of intellect": not only sorrow, contrition or regret, but more positively and fundamentally the conversion or turning of our whole life toward alignment with Absolute Beingness' Divine Plan.
DD 10 Karma (FH 301)
Karma is
the Law of cause and effect. The sum total of a
person's
action, thoughts and feelings that determine his or
her
successive states of existence. Human beings are fully
responsible
for the creation of their karma, their destiny.
The
attainment of Theosis, God-Realization, implies
transcending
one's karma.
ET 163 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN "THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT"
ET 164 Karma affects the present-day
personality, but never affects the permanent personality. It is in fact, the
permanent personality, who administers the Laws of Cause and Effect upon the
currently projected present-day personality. The permanent personality decides
conditions and circumstances, painful or pleasurable, for the temporary self,
so that the appropriate experience is acquired.
The great Law is within us.
The permanent personality and the Guardian Archangel have the Law as their
nature; "... the work of the Law is written in their hearts, their
conscience bearing witness...." (Romans 2:15).
Our present-day
personalities are like naughty children, whom, periodically, our permanent
personalities and the Guardian Archangels have to shake, in order to make them
see conditions correctly. In truth, our Guardian Archangels are much more
gentle in administering hardships than our permanent personalities. Sometimes
these slaps are very painful, yet they are always deserved and for a good
purpose.
ET 164 The Law of Cause and Effect works
towards evolution, according to the Divine Plan. In this light, we see this Law
as most loving, as it is an indispensable agent in the lifting of consciousness
to ever greater heights.
ET 164 Afflictions, sicknesses and poor
circumstances are the result of actions in this life or in past lives, which
we have yet to resolve. The great goal is to purify our unwholesome energies,
reduce the creation of negative energy, and become masters of good thoughts and
actions. In this way we free our bodies from the weight of past actions and
enjoy health and harmony. We must not allow karmic consequences and
contingencies to control us, since we, blessedly endowed with free will and
reason, are, in truth, their master. We are continually given the
opportunities, and holy Mind, to allow us to break the chains binding us to the
past and move forward freely into the future. If we continue to create negative
energy, we will then have to face it; "All who take the sword die by the
sword" (Matt. 26:52).
Each of us cultivates a
karmic state, which is an exact reflection of the distance we have created
between our existence and our Being; between illusion and truth. This karmic
state is, in effect, the texture of our consciousness. The quality of our
predispositions, beliefs, values, intentions, thoughts and actions are
indicators of our karmic position. Illness, confusion and "bad luck"
are born of disharmonies within the personality, as the expression of our proximity
to truth, love and wisdom. When misfortune arises, either brought with us at
birth or produced as our life proceeds, it is a measure of the friction,
illusion and misunderstanding besetting our existence. Consequently, the
misfortune is in precise proportion to the lesson necessary to learn, in order
to return to relative harmony. We now properly see karma as the gulf between
our existence and our Being, and the Laws of Cause and Effect as the most wise
and loving hand of our Father guiding us home.
ET 166 So karma is not the sadism of a punishing God. Characterizing Absolute Beingness in this manner is bringing the Measureless down to our dimensions and our weaknesses. In Sanskrit, karma is defined simply as "action". We can compare it with the Law of Gravity, which is necessary for the maintenance of order in the cosmos. Nobody can complain if, when he throws a stone in the air, it falls on his own head. The Law of Cause and Effect is order, Absolute Intelligence, and Love expressed.
FH 110 The puzzle of pain and suffering
FH 112 Why is there so much pain in the world?
FH 112 The Christ Logos can absorb and nullify pain of humanity.
FH 129 Karma can't accurately be predicted beyond
two or three
days.
FH 136 More about prediction in the light of Karma and Free Will
FH 193 When you transgress against the law of the
psychic worlds,
you will pay within this world, and when you
have violated
the laws in the material world you will
settle your accounts
there as well.
FH 196 Karma can be transcended
FH 199
How an Austrian
politician in his previous life could
transform his Karma in this life (see page 201 as well) FH 200 You can pay your Karma debts through good deeds.
FH 202
Human Beings can make
the choice how to deal with Karma
before the second death and before their next incarnation.
FH 203 You must pay your Karma either through suffering or through altruistic deeds.
FH 205 When you bear somebody’s burden you carry in reality always your own.
FH 205 Divine Mercy can be compared with a mother who cares for her child.
MS 62 CHAPTER FIVE "KARMA"
MS 62 How Karma was prevented when Jonah predicted the destruction of the City of Nineveh.
MS 66 Karmic debts are your own debts and debts of others you love.
MS 66 Under certain condition the Logos
will assume 90% of the
remaining
debts.
MS 85 Collective
Karma
MS 102 We
should not assume that our experiences are pre-determined.
MS 102 Divine plan means birth & death, everything else is your affair.
MS 160 People who commit suicide are having problems finding rest in the psychic world.
MS 162 Why Karma was overcome (repentant city)
MS 214 Temporary relief
PA 49 The Unforgiving Servant (Matt:18,21-25)- The Law of Karma
PA
105 Every human being coming into the world carries a cross from previous
incarnations. The Hindus call it Karma, we call it
the
Law of Destiny, the Law of Cause and Effect.