“Enq: Then the personal man must always go on suffering blindly the Karmic penalties which the Ego has incurred?
Theo: Not quite so. At the solemn moment of death every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing Ego. But this instant is enough to show him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.
He sees and now understands himself as he is, unadorned by flattery or deception. He reads his life, remaining as a spectator looking down into the arena he is quitting; he feels and knows the justice of all the suffering that has over-taken him.
Enq: Does this happen to everyone?
Theo: Without any exception. Very good and holy men see, we are taught, not only the life they are leaving, but even several preceding lives in which were produced the causes that made them what they were in the life just closing. They recognize the law of Karma in all its majesty and justice.
Enq: Is there anything corresponding to this before rebirth?
Theo: There is. As the man at the moment of death has a retrospective insight into the life he has led, so, at the moment he is reborn on to earth, the Ego, awaking from the state of Devachan, has a prospective vision of the life which awaits him, and realizes all the causes that have led to it.
He realizes them and sees futurity, because it is between Devachan and rebirth that the Ego remains his full manasic consciousness, and rebecomes for a short time the god he was, before, in compliance with Karmic law, he first descended into matter and incarnated in the first man of flesh.
The “golden thread” sees all its “pearls” and misses not one of them.”
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 