The Law of Karma

The Divine Purpose

The Law of Karma should be seen in a greater perspective before its purpose can stand out clearly. In other words, we must ask ourselves this question: What is our Creator's purpose with creation?

According to Alice Bailey , God created this world to express his perfect love in the physical world. One could then ask rhetorically why did our Creator not create a paradise on Earth at once, for to our Creator nothing should be impossible?

But our Creator wanted his sons and daughters created in his own image to recognise their own divine nature. They had to understand their Father's love consciously by getting insight into their own related nature. If God had created everything in perfect harmony, man would forever find himself in a state of innocent child without the ability to defray darkness from light. One has to know darkness to recognise light, and this is why God created man.

At this point it is important to stress that good things and bad things are relative terms. Seen in an evolutionary perspective, selfishness and egoism can be positive traits helping man to integrate his personality and build a strong and independent identity. In the long run, however, egoism will become a hindrance for him to attain his purpose - i.e. to get in touch with his soul and become a creative member of society where interests of the collective become more important than his own interests. No man can, however, contribute with anything if he has got no personal identity upon which to base any creation.

Since the days of creation and through his many past lives, man has left the divine planes to acquire knowledge through discrimination on planet earth. We humans live one life after another to gain experiences based on our choices. From a state of immense ignorance about our divine nature and purpose, we have slowly - through our uncountable civilisations on planet earth - fought our way to acquire a larger and more perfect realisation or knowledge of the meaning of life: the continuous dissemination of love all over the world. Throughout history the many enlightened souls - who have succeeded in being liberated from their egoistic and materialistic nature, thus realising a divine nature - have told us about the path to God. The two greatest figures are Buddha and Christ.

Where Buddha showed us the path of wisdom, Christ showed us that of Love. Besides their teachings of light and love, these great souls also brought us the Law of Cause and Effect, which is a way to ensure that all human beings will be taken to the light in time. The law is the pledge of God saying that all souls will find their way to the home of their Father in time, and that nobody will be left in darkness. He has made sure that everything will be saved through the enfoldment of divine qualities in man and through the lawfulness of man always being faced with the consequences of his actions.