“Mr. B. Keightley: But you cannot conceive of a law which does not act.
Mme. Blavatsky: Well, I say it does not act; in my conception, it does not act. Well, Karma does not act any more than water drowns you.
Mr. B. Keightley: But water does drown you.
Mme. Blavatsky: Water does not drown you. You drown yourselves in the water. Don’t go into the water and you won’t get drowned.
Mr. Old: Is it possible to get outside the law of Karma, then?
Mme. Blavatsky: You cannot.
Mr. Old: The analogies scarcely fit.
Mme. Blavatsky: I beg your pardon. It does, as much as it can fit in this world of physical symbols, or whatever you may call them, because it is the way that you act. It is not because you act wickedly or sinfully, or with or without a motive, you produce an effect. You strike a note in the universal.
Mr. Ralph Sneyd: Is not ignorance the cause of all evil action?
Mme. Blavatsky: It is , but Karma does not take stock of it, does not concern itself whether you do it from ignorance or from too much learning. It is simply if you do a certain thing, so the effect will be on a similar line.
For instance, you will strike one note, and you know perfectly well what will be the consequence of that note. That is why I simply wanted to stop Mr. Keightley, because he said it was intelligent and it acted. Certainly we must say that it acts; but, I want you at the same time to understand that in saying it acts, we use the same expression as if we said the sun is setting. The sun does not set at all.
Mr. Burrows: If our action is a note which we strike, that really is the echo of some previous note which has been struck somewhere in the universe.
Mme. Blavatsky: Certainly, it s not the first time that you struck this note. Whether you strike it in the ordinary way, or otherwise, it depends on that whether it will be flat, sharp or something else.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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