"PATE AND DESTINY"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 3

t An exceedingly interesting lecture on "Fate and Destiny" was delivered by Miss Christie on Sunday evening at the Theosophical Society's Hall in Ballancestreet. The lecturer explained that through misuse the terms had become synonymous, but there was a Sanskrit term, "karma," covering both words and meaning still more. There were several kinds of karma— individual, family, national, and racial. Individual karma related to the physical body, and moulded it according ttv what the soul had earned by its past actions. Family karma- was the result of the soul's past love or hatred for other souls, both of which formed powerful ties between individuals, and decided what family the man should reincarnate. Similarly the soul's past relations with nations and races had resulted hi national and racial karma, which decided as to which of these it should belong. Our karma or destiny was not, however, as unalterable as_ many believed. It was continually being modified, and might be entirely altered by our present thoughts and aspirations, desires, and actions. At the most there were in each life only two or three happenings which could not be avoided, but which were as inevitable as that fat* which the Koran told us every man had about his neck.