Last year I wrote weekly pieces keeping you all up to date on my learnings and doings, something I dropped after a while. It came to mind during my studies today, so I thought it right to give it another try!
Today I read through “Reincarnation and Karma” a Theosophical pamphlet, and an eternal favorite, Thomas Keightley’s Fairy Mythology. Here are some things that struck me.
Karma
William Q. Judge, acolyte of Helena Blavatsky writes that according to the laws of Karma:
Each act contains within itself the past and future.
I found this extremely significant, I had written about this notion as “temporality” and the synchronistic web of meaning that action takes place within, a web made up of what we could call “energy”, Tao, Orgone, libido, etc, and what is put very well by Judge as “Desire”:
“The basis of every act is desire. The plane of desire or egotism is itself action and the matrix of every act. This plane may be considered as non-manifest, yet having a dual manifestation in what we call cause and effect, that is the act and its consequences. In reality, both the act and its consequences are the effect, the cause being on the plane of desire. Desire is therefore the basis of action in its first manifestation on the physical plane, and desire determines the continuation of the act in its karmic relation to the individual.”
This plane of desire, which exists outside of linear time is obvious to us as the Unconscious! What is called Karma, or perhaps incorrectly “Fate”, is the Unconscious.
Jung said it well: Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.