Karma & More

2009-7-14 01:45:00

Jim Nickles wrotes:

"If we 'cannot step into the same river twice' because it is always flowing and thus the composition of said river changes from micro-second to micro-second, how can karma or sin stick to an individual who also is flowing from micro-second to micro-second? We pollute ourselves with the bad things we dump into ourselves, and just like rivers that are muddied, if we stop the dumping, it runs clear. To defeat karma or sin, just give up the bad things you do and stop thinking about them."

JJ:

Karma is not composed of the moving drops in a stream but is the direction of the stream. If you alter its direction then it doesn't matter how many times the original water changes, the direction will continue until another change occurs.

If you cut your finger off the effect will stay for many years until you die even though the elements that compose your body will change several times.

Jesus said:

"Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." (Matt 5:26)

Even so, the last farthing of Karma must be paid before the pilgrim obtains liberation.

Here is a quote from Archived Article #558:

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We know that if we cause money to be put in the bank we will have the effect of available money (good Karma). We also agree that if you cause a loan to be made at the bank that you will then owe some money (bad Karma).

To say that there is no bad Karma is to say that there are no negative effects. Therefore if there were no such thing as bad (or negative) Karma is the same as saying that when you take out a loan from the bank that you will owe no debt. In this case if negative Karma is denied long enough you will awaken to reality when you watch the bill collectors haul your car off.

To say there is no bad Karma is the same as saying that when you drive over a cliff that only good things will happen. I think here we all will agree that when we create a cause in this life that an effect will follow.

Now perhaps some think that when we die all of our causes die with us and we carry no effects into the next life, but in principle a cause always is followed by an effect, and they are carried over into future lives.

(End of Quote)

Ruth writes:

"JJ, did you have a study of "Percival's" face and eyes? I do not particularly like the feel of this man's eyes and face, he reminds me of someone, but I will try and read his book, just in case my first impression of his vibration is not correct."

JJ:

The only picture I can find of him is low quality and isn't really enough for me to go by. My main point of judgement is always a person's words and works. I do not find anything harmful in the book. I wouldn't consider him a great Light or Initiate, but I think he was sensitive, intelligent and attempting to do his best.

He dictated the whole book in a normal voice to a scribe while he was fully conscious in a meditative state. Reminds one a bit of Joseph Smith.

He believed in overcoming death while in the physical body and wrote a lot of details as to how that is supposed to happen. Unfortunately he wasn't able to make it happen. He died of natural causes at age 85.

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)