stanza 6, sloka 4

Stanza VI
4. He builds them in the likeness of older wheels, placing them on the Imperishable Centres.

How does Fohat build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus acts Fohat from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.”

 
“Mr. Yates:  How far does the collective Karma control the individual beyond his own actions? Can an individual receive results he does not deserve, which are forced upon him by the Karma of the race?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  I suppose I do understand you, but it seems to me that the Karma of everyone and everything affects you just the same. You may be an excellent man and not deserve to have the measles, but if you go near a person who has it, you may have it, too.

 
Mr. Yates:  How far the Karma of another may affect it is what I wished to know.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  You cannot touch pitch without being black. You cannot come into rapport with a person that can give you some disease without catching it. You will be rewarded for that injustice and the other man may not be punished, because it is not his fault.

 
You see, the Karma is a question of such difficulty; it is such an abstruse thing that if we begin talking about Karma, we must not ask other questions. It is too abstruse, Karma.

 
Mr. Mead:  Then that question with regard to the first Monads that come in?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  You will find it there.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  There are some questions on that subject. Keep your question clear in your head to the end, and if it is not answered then, you might mention it.

 
Question 9 (a). Will a Monad belonging to one particular class always belong to that class?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  Certainly not. How can it be that? Because, if nature were stationary and never moved, it would be a different thing; but how can it be in this case? Because, there would be neither progress nor Karma nor anything, if it were such a thing as that.

 
Mr. Mead:  I suppose that question means, would a Monad go on evolving in its own class?

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  That, I think, is a fair question – whether a Monad in its evolution would remain together with the other Monads that formed the same class, or is it free to get ahead of the others or drop behind them?

 
Mr. Kingsland:  Only during one cycle.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  If not, what law determines his rate of evolution, or the length of time he remains in that class?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  Again, Karma. I cannot answer you anything more. His own actions and previous existence; the collective existences of nations and races, of persons that are around – of everything.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky