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Publisher's Notice - The One - Omnipresent Life - The Creative Will - The Unity of Life - The One and the Many - Within the Mind of the One - Cosmic Evolution - The Ascent of Man - Metempsychosis - Spiritual Evolution - The Law of Karma - Occult Miscellany - Contents -

eastern brethren of the fifth race, their Golden and their Iron ages, their period of comparative irresponsibility, or the Satya age of purity, while now several of them have reached their Iron Age, the Kali Yuga, an age black with horrors. This state will last . . . until we begin acting from within instead of ever following impulses from without. Until then the only palliative is union and harmony --- a Brotherhood in actu and altruism not simply in name."

Edwin Arnold, in his wonderful poem, "The Light of Asia," which tells the story of the Buddha, explains the doctrine of Karma from the Buddhist standpoint. We feel that our students should become acquainted with this view, so beautifully expressed, and so we herewith quote the passages referred to:

"Karma --- all that total of a soul
Which is the things it did, the thoughts it had,
The 'self it wove with woof of viewless time
Crossed on the warp invisible of acts.

"What hath been bringeth what shall be, and is,
Worse --- better --- last for first and first for last;
The angels in the heavens of gladness reap
Fruits of a holy past.

"The devils in the underworlds wear out
Deeds that were wicked in an age gone by.
Nothing endures: fair virtues waste with time,
Foul sins grow purged thereby.

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