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| publications = [[Lucifer/Vol2|''Lucifer'', vol. 2]], no. 11, July 1888, pp. 415-416 | | publications = [[Lucifer/Vol2|''Lucifer'', vol. 2]], no. 11, July 1888, pp. 415-416 | ||
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{{Style P-Quote|1=Your correspondent, and my critic (or perhaps I should say the critic of the officers of the T. P. S.), should, I think, remember that, unless he is writing with an authority to which I lay no claim, he is using a somewhat strong expression in speaking of my view of the operation of Karma in Re-incarnation as a “glaring error.” | {{Style P-Quote|1=Your correspondent, and my critic (or perhaps I should say the critic of the officers of the T. P. S.), should, I think, remember that, unless he is writing with an authority to which I lay no claim, he is using a somewhat strong expression in speaking of my view of the operation of Karma in Re-incarnation as a “glaring error.” | ||
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If J. C. V. P. will turn to p. 3 of the same paper, he will read in the second paragraph, in reference to the Devachanic state, “It is purely a state of bliss, in which man receives compensation for the undeserved misery of his past life.”<ref name="v2-p415-n1">Quite correct; but it is not the ''injustice'' or ''mistakes'' of Karma which are the causes of such “undeserved misery,” but other causes, independent of the past Karma of either the producer or the innocent victim of their effects, new actions generated by the wickedness of men and circumstances; and which arouse Karmic law to fresh activity, ''i.e.'' the punishment of those who caused these new ''Nidânas'' (or causal connections), and the reward of him who suffered from them undeservedly. – [<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Ed.</span>]</ref> | If J. C. V. P. will turn to p. 3 of the same paper, he will read in the second paragraph, in reference to the Devachanic state, “It is purely a state of bliss, in which man receives compensation for the undeserved misery of his past life.”<ref name="v2-p415-n1">Quite correct; but it is not the ''injustice'' or ''mistakes'' of Karma which are the causes of such “undeserved misery,” but other causes, independent of the past Karma of either the producer or the innocent victim of their effects, new actions generated by the wickedness of men and circumstances; and which arouse Karmic law to fresh activity, ''i.e.'' the punishment of those who caused these new ''Nidânas'' (or causal connections), and the reward of him who suffered from them undeservedly. – [<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Ed.</span>]</ref> | ||
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To be consistent, J. C. V. P. should object to this also, yet I have herein only embodied the idea which I have gathered, and I believe accurately, from one whom I venture to look upon as an authority. I appeal to the Editors of <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Lucifer</span> to uphold me, or to contradict me; in the latter event my whole contention falls to the ground. | To be consistent, J. C. V. P. should object to this also, yet I have herein only embodied the idea which I have gathered, and I believe accurately, from one whom I venture to look upon as an authority. I appeal to the Editors of <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Lucifer</span> to uphold me, or to contradict me; in the latter event my whole contention falls to the ground. | ||