“Mr. B. Keightley: The law of progress is as much a part of the law of Karma. The thing to get out of the idea of Karma is not the idea that you have to sit down and accept things as they are – though you should not resent things – but you should strive your level {best} to make those things right, without the feeling of bitter resentment.
Mr. Burrows: If we try to alter them now, it will be better in the future. It is not selfishness.
Mr. B. Keightley: Then that again is productive of evil.
Mrs. Besant: So that really you strive against the evil.
Mr. B. Keightley: Yes. Without resentment.
Mr. Burrows: That is a very important point, because the tendency now is to get angry and bitter.
Mr. Sneyd: How do you say about free will? How can one prove there is such a thing, when everything is the result of cause and effect? I don’t say that exactly. Well, I can see one thing, I suppose you the cause – the individual himself is the cause.
Mr. B. Keightley: Yes, the primary cause. The conditions under which he operates the Karma, so to speak, that is working out. As an individual, he is a cause.
Mr. Burrows: But would it be right to say that we can really create fresh causes?
Mme. Blavatsky: Most assuredly. Every one of you creates fresh causes from morning to night. That is where the free will comes in, because if there were no free will you would not create causes, you would simply be under the thrashing of this law.
Mr. B. Keightley: Under the blows of the law.
Mr. Gardner: The results of past Karma. If the actions are happening by accident, they are the result of past Karma.
Mme. Blavatsky: The accidents are commas and semicolons, that is all they are.
Mr. B. Keightley: Yes, the accidents are the punctuation of life.
Mr. Old: Things from which we measure off theories.
Mme. Blavatsky: Accidents are not things that are preordained, if you please.
Mr. Old: Then we branch off onto the subject of death.
Mme. Blavatsky: That is why we say we are our own punishers and rewarders and saviors.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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