THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Speaking to the Dunedin Lodge of the Thcosophical Society yesterday on “ Fate and Freedom,” Mr J. M. M'Ewan said: “ Fate is the destiny determined by an individual’s actions. Past actions are causes, and conditions in this life are effects.” This law of causation, called in the East “ Karma,” was, he said, a cosmic principle, but it was not merely a mechanical law. Even a mechanical law in Nature was the expression of infinite love and infinite justice. Because of Karma, a man could work out his destiny and become what he willed himself to be. Karma was not only something out of the past coming into the present; it was coming down to us from the future. Coming events east their shadows on the present. If people would bring the Karma - of the future down and let is transmute the Karma from the past, they would gain strength from their future and hasten their freedom. To be master of one’s own fate meant understanding the law, so that one could realise the forces of Nature which hindered, and utilise those which helped to achieve freedom.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 5
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