Reincarnation FAQ According to Theosophy
Bianca:
Our future friends or enemies, then, are those who are with us and to be with us in the
present. If they are those who now seem inimical, we make a grave mistake and only put
off the day of reconciliation three more lives if we allow ourselves today to be deficient in
charity for them. We are annoyed and hindered by those who actively oppose, as well as
others whose mere looks, temperament, and unconscious action fret and disturb us.
Our code of justice to ourselves, often but petty personality, incites us to rebuke them, to
criticise, to attack. It is a mistake for us to so act. Could we but glance ahead to next life,
we would see these for whom we now have but scant charity crossing the plain of that life
with ourselves and ever in our way, always hiding the light from us.
But change our present attitude, and that new life to come would show these bores and
partial enemies and obstructors helping us,
aiding our every effort. For Karma may give them then greater opportunities than ourselves
and better capacity.
Is any Theosophist, who reflects on this, so foolish as to continue now, if he has the power
to alter himself, a course that will breed a crop of thorns for his next lifes reaping? We should
continue our charity and kindness to our friends whom it is easy to wish to help, but for those
whom we naturally dislike, who are our bores now, we ought to take especial pains to aid and
carefully toward them cultivate a feeling of love and charity.
This adds interest to our Karmic investment. The opposite course, as surely as sun rises and
water runs down hill, strikes interest from the account and enters a heavy item on the wrong
side of life's ledger.
Bianca:
And especially should the whole Theosophical organization act on the lines laid down by St. Paul
and The Voice of the Silence.
For Karmic tendency is an unswerving law.
It compels us to go on in this movement of thought and doctrine; it will bring back to reincarnat-
ion all in it now. Sentiment cannot move the law one inch; and though that emotion might seek
to rid us of the presence of these men and women we presently do not fancy or approve--and
there are many such in our ranks for every one--the law will place us again in company with
friendly tendency increased or hostile feeling diminished, just as we now create the one or pre-
vent the other. It was the aim of the founders of the Society to arouse tendency to future
friendship; it ought to be the object of all our members.
What will you have? In the future life, enemies or friends?
EUSEBIO URBAN
Path, January, 1893
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