KARMA
A Study in Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in 1917
Causation
The idea of causation has been challenged in modern
times, Huxley, for instance, contending, in the Contemporary Review, that we
only knew sequence, not causation; he said that if a ball moved after it was
hit by a bat, you should not say that the blow of the bat caused the movement,
but only that it was followed by the movement. This extreme scepticism came out
strongly in some of the great men of the nineteenth century, a reaction from
the ready credulity and many unproved assumptions of the Middle Ages. The
reaction had its use, but is now gradually passing away, as extremes ever do.
The idea of causation arises naturally in the human
mind, though unprovable by the senses; when a phenomenon has been invariably
followed by another phenomenon for long periods of time, the two become linked
together in our minds, and when
one appears, the mind, by association of ideas,
expects the second; thus the fact that night has been followed by day from time
immemorial gives us a firm conviction that the sun will rise tomorrow as on
countless yesterdays.
Succession alone, however, does not necessarily imply
causation; we do not regard day as the cause of night, nor night as the cause
of day, because they invariably succeed each other. To assert causation, we
need more than invariable succession; we need that the reason shall see that
which the senses are unable
to discern – a relation between the two things which
brings about the appearance of the second when the first appears. The
succession of day and night is not caused by either; both are caused by the
relation of the earth to the sun; that relation is a true cause, recognised as
such by the reason, and as long as the
relation exists unchanged, day and night will be its
effect. In order to see one thing as the cause of another, the reason must
establish a relation between them which is sufficient for the production of one
by the other; then, and then only, can we rightly assert causation. The links
between phenomena that are never broken, and that are recognised by the reason
as an active relation, bringing into manifestation the second phenomenon
whenever the first is manifested, we call causation.
They are the shadows of inter-relations existing in
the Eternal,
outside space and time, and they extend over the life
of a universe, wherever the conditions exist for their manifestation. Causation
is an expression of the nature of the LOGOS, an Emanation of the eternal
Reality; wherever there is
interrelation in the Eternal which demands succession
for its manifestation in time, there is causation.
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Theosophy and the Masters General Principles
The Earth Chain Body and Astral Body Kama – Desire
Manas Of Reincarnation Reincarnation Continued
Karma Kama Loka
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Differentiation Of Species Missing Links
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The Start of the Theosophical Society
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Elementary Theosophy Who is the Man? Body and Soul
Body, Soul and Spirit Reincarnation Karma
A Study in Karma
Annie Besant
Karma Fundamental Principles
Laws: Natural and Man-Made
The Law of Laws The Eternal Now Succession Causation
The Laws of Nature A Lesson of The Law
Karma Does Not Crush Apply This Law
Man in The Three Worlds
Understand The Truth
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The Pair of Triplets Thought, The Builder
Practical Meditation Will and Desire
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Our Environment Our Kith and Kin Our Nation
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