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November 22nd, 2008
One of the harder parts of Blavatsky’s explanation of karma and reincarnation is that she insisted that only the best in people goes on to form part of the divine Ego. That is: a person without a shred of goodness in them will be lost to the higher self. They will have lost the opportunity [...]
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November 19th, 2008
An anonymous reader asks my opinion on the Trans-Himalayan teachings, as they’ve been called, going from H.P. Blavatsky to Mabel Collins Cook to the Temple of the People to Agni Yoga to Alice Bailey etc.
First of all: Mabel Collins wrote during Blavatsky’s life, so it isn’t so much that she replaced Blavatsky as that there [...]
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November 18th, 2008
I find myself writing posts in reverse order: starting with the complicated stuff and ending with the basics. Today’s post is the basics, but it is in some ways also the hardest part of the doctrine of karma.
The doctrine of karma is in Biblical words ‘as you sow, so you will reap’. Contrary to what [...]
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November 17th, 2008
Comments on my posts about group karma have made it clear that not all of my readers are aware of the basics of the doctrine of karma.
The law of karma (a law of nature just like the law of physics) basicly states that all action will have consequences for the person acting. In everyday life [...]
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November 14th, 2008
Group Karma is but the specific working out of a more general aspect of karma that gets ignored or forgotten too easily. In the words of H.P. Blavatsky:
Nor would the ways of Karma be inscrutable were men to work in union and harmony, instead of disunion and strife.
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