KARMA
A Study in
Karma
by
Annie Besant
Published in
1917
Causation
The idea of causation
has been challenged in modern times, Huxley, for instance, contending, in the
Contemporary Review, that we only knew sequence, not causation; he said that if
a ball moved after it was hit by a bat, you should not say that the blow of the
bat caused the movement, but only that it was followed by the movement. This
extreme scepticism came out strongly in some of the great men of the nineteenth
century, a reaction from the ready credulity and many unproved assumptions of
the Middle Ages. The reaction had its use, but is now gradually passing away,
as extremes ever do.
The idea of
causation arises naturally in the human mind, though unprovable by the senses;
when a phenomenon has been invariably followed by another phenomenon for long
periods of time, the two become linked together in our minds, and when
one appears,
the mind, by association of ideas, expects the second; thus the fact that night
has been followed by day from time immemorial gives us a firm conviction that
the sun will rise tomorrow as on countless yesterdays.
Succession
alone, however, does not necessarily imply causation; we do not regard day as
the cause of night, nor night as the cause of day, because they invariably
succeed each other. To assert causation, we need more than invariable
succession; we need that the reason shall see that which the senses are unable
to discern –
a relation between the two things which brings about the appearance of the
second when the first appears. The succession of day and night is not caused by
either; both are caused by the relation of the earth to the sun; that relation
is a true cause, recognised as such by the reason, and as long as the
relation
exists unchanged, day and night will be its effect. In order to see one thing as
the cause of another, the reason must establish a relation between them which
is sufficient for the production of one by the other; then, and then only, can
we rightly assert causation. The links between phenomena that are never broken,
and that are recognised by the reason as an active relation, bringing into
manifestation the second phenomenon whenever the first is manifested, we call
causation.
They are the
shadows of inter-relations existing in the Eternal,
outside space
and time, and they extend over the life of a universe, wherever the conditions
exist for their manifestation. Causation is an expression of the nature of the
LOGOS, an Emanation of the eternal Reality; wherever there is
interrelation
in the Eternal which demands succession for its manifestation in time, there is
causation.
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