THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 68, 18 September 1917, Page 4

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

An address on the subject "War Karma: Past, Present, and Future," was given at the rooms of the Tlieosophical Society on Sunday by Miss C. W. Christie, national lecturer. Miss Christie begun by .giving a definition of karma, which sno said was the law of cause and effect,, •eternal, all-embracing, and unfailing in. its action. All that came to us to-day of pleasure and pain was simply the result of our pa&t activities; No life could be .separate from its preceding life, neither could it be separate from that which fol- . lows. To-da-y Europe was using her scientific and material power in a devastating war. Why should our ' civilisation be brought to such a. terrible state? The reason was not far to seek. We had been unable to understand God's law, the law of His Being. The link of the past was that war which marked the end of a past civilisation and. the loss of all knowledge gathered through the.agee. Our present was linked with the post chiefly in three ways. _ Firstly, by our leaders, who on both sides were the same as in the great war of the past; secondly, by the "camp followers," who were simply working for their own selfish welfare in the world; thirdly, thoßo who with the memory of the past would bring, about the victory of the future. The third link in the karmic chain, the link .of the future, would be made by our actions: in this time, of national trouble,: and these action* would decide our position and work in the new race. It was our duty to crush the power that menaced humanity, but we must bear no hatred.