KARMA
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
July 1
Just as like attracts like, so like produces like.
This is a cosmic law, which means
that it is universally true
throughout the whole of existence
right up through the higher planes.
As Jesus put it, you do not gather grapes
from thorns or figs from thistles;
and he also said,
“Even so every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit”
Matthew 7:17
So, it is with our thoughts and words and deeds.
As we sow so shall we reap,
sometimes almost immediately,
sometimes after a long interval.
But always, sooner or later like produces like.
Reincarnation also explains the differences in talents
that we find between one man and another.
The born musician is a man
who has studied music in a previous life,
perhaps in several lives,
and has therefore built that faculty into his soul.
He is a talented musician today
because he is reaping what he sowed yesterday.
In the East this law of sowing and reaping
is known as karma and the term is a convenient one.
Note carefully, however, that karma is not punishment.
If you touch a red-hot stove, you will burn your finger.
This will hurt you, but it is not punishment,
only a benign and reformative consequence,
for after one or two such experiences in childhood,
you learn to keep your fingers away from hot iron.
So, it is with all-natural retribution—
you suffer because you have a lesson to learn.
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