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Karma, The Three Fold Law, & Grace
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"As you sew, so shall ye reap". "What goes around, comes around".
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"Whatever you send out returns three times". These are all sayings
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very familiar to all of us, all of them examples of a supposedly
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Universal Law of cause and effect, action and reaction. Of course many
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of the religious systems try to furnish us with some sort of "escape
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clause" that will allow man to either alleviate suffering fo past
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misdeeds, or to escape responsibility totally. Let us take a little
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closer look at these three ideas and ther inter-reationship.
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It seems that, on one level, we do live in a mechanistic universe,
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one pretty much ruled by cause-and-efect. This Newtonian universe
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seems to react in a very mechanical fashion, i.e. every action
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"produces an equal and opposite reaction". A good analogy for this is
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the example of one billiard ball striking another. The energy from the
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striking billiard ball is transfered to the one struck and is used to
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push against the first, imparting motion in the same direction. This
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brings the second law into play, i.e. an object in motion tends to stay
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until acted upon by an outside force.
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The principle of Karma basically says the same thing; i.e. any
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negative or positive action or thought remains that way, until it
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expends its energy by acting upon the originator. Of course this also
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makes implicit the idea that thoughts or mental energy have a reality
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of their own, one that interacts with the physical universe. If this
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idea is accepted, it then implies the existence of at least one more
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"world" or order of the universe, one with a non physical "reality",
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and one where the basic fundamental rules of physics (as we know them)
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may not truly apply.
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The magician can be described as one who "walks between" these two
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worlds. "Walking between two worlds" implies that an individal is
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connected with both and can move between them at will. The purpose of
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magic is to manipulate one world for the benefit of the other, i.e. to
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manipulate the unseen world for the express purpose of influencing
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events in the physical. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a
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"free ride" anywhere in the universe, and when an individual acquires
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the power to do this, they also aquire a great deal of responsibility!
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By accepting the power to exert "leverage" in the unseen world, an
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individual seems to also accept a multiplied succeptibility to
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influences initiated in that world. This is why negative workings are
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so dangerous! This may also be the reasoning behind the "law of three
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fold return".
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Now comes the hard part! If all of this cause and effect stuff is
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absolute, how can any individual ever hope to "pay off" the debts for
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all of the "stupid" things they have done not only in this lifetime,
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but in many others? Must we "pay off" all past transgressions on a one
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for one basis? Is there no ecape clause in this "contract" we seem to
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have for living in the universe?
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This "escape clause" is called Grace by the Christians and by
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other names in other systems, but it does exist in all. Basically, the
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idea is this: "Once a lesson is completely learned and one grows
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beyond a need for this lesson, it need not be repeated, even if the
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'books' are not balanced". This is the "Enlightenment" sought by the
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Buddhist that allows the "breaking" of the wheel. This is also the
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core principle behind the idea of "Divine" forgiveness, but that is a
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topic for another essay. Paul G. Seynour, SYSOP 1:301/9
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