Karmic Laws: The Esoteric Philosophy of Disease and Rebirth

Each human life is the result of a unique set of causes and effects—a condensation, as it were, of past actions. some of which stretch back over many lifetimes. For the occultist, our bodies—both inner and outer—are receptacles for creative as well as destructive energies and are the product of those cosmic laws of cause and effect known as karma.

Karma is in no sense of the word Fatalism on the one hand, nor what is popularly known as ‘Chance’ on the other. It is essentially a doctrine of Free Will, for naturally the entity which initiates a movement or action–spiritual, mental, psychological, physical or other is responsible thereafter in the shape of consequences and effects that flow therefrom, and sooner or later recoil upon the actor or prime mover. Karma is better understood if it is accepted that Man is linked to and responds to the Universe itself. Karma is one of the laws governing the universe; therefore, this law must also govern Man who is a unit of consciousness in that universe.

This book explains the fundamental concept of karma and examines the way karmic consequences manifest in a variety of physical diseases, ranging from arthritis to schizophrenia and alcoholism. In Esoteric Healing, psychotherapy is never complete without the matter of Karma being dealt with generally and specifically by the healer. It is not possible to understand Karma without knowing something of the totality of man.

The doctrine is extremely comforting to human minds, inasmuch as Man may carve his own destiny and, indeed, must do so. He can form it or deform it, shape it or mis-shape it, as he wills; and by acting with Nature’s own great and underlying energies, he puts himself in unison or harmony therewith and therefore becomes a co-worker with Nature as the Gods are.