Is God unkind? Are friends unfaithful? Do your prayers go
unheard? Have you ever considered that your endurings now are
but exactions of your yesterdays? "Whatsoever a man soweth"
holds true in all careers. You are the builder! You did not inherit
your parents. You inherited yourself, and you willingly reincarnated
for continued individualization and to "balance your accounts."
For some one else to pay your bills would be manifestly unfair
and unjust.
You are now preparing for another life that may be a continuation
of this one in wretchedness and sorrow, due to what you imposed
on others in this and preceding lives. Pay your debts and liquidate
your difficulties. Nothing merely happens. The laws of rebirth
and consequence can account for all misfortunes and losses, sickness
and injuries, ugliness and beauty, genius and stupidity, misery
and happiness. We reap what we have sown! How else account for
the vagaries of fate, fortune, accident? Every event, good or
vicious, has its precursor and inspirer.
Some earth lives are far too short to wipe out evil deeds,
and that accounts for rebirths that seemingly carry a fate of
misfortune. Every account must be balanced, but it is our own
prerogative to choose the manner in which we will make the necessary
adjustments. We progress faster by facing life and destiny cheerfully.
Christian teachings prior to the fifth century taught the
doctrine of rebirth and the inevitable reaping of consequences
from causes generated from prior lives. Consider the history of
certain nations and look at their present calamities. Are they
not reaping sowings from previous lives? The sufferers today
in those nations were the vicious actors in former days. They
reap as they sowed for others. Is that not just?
"Why did this evil happen to me?" you ask. Can you
explain it otherwise than is indicated? No! Then pay up! Consider
your fellow men. Do good somewhere, anywhere. Every kind act will
help to wipe away some part of your debt. Pile up merit. Be generous
in motive. It won't hurt any even if you do good simply for good's
sake!
Mere belief in some theological dogma won't excuse you nor
relieve you of paying moral debts. Such thinking is hardly consistent
with common sense. What of the victim you imposed upon? How is
he repaid for suffering your meanness? Belief alone won't change
fate. but you can, by paying today the indebtedness of yesterday's
folly. You have made your fate, and only you can change it.
It is much better to make good here and now than to take chances
in a mythic paradise. Wouldn't you, as you now you are, cut a
pretty figure there? With whom could you associate there, if peradventure
you could slip through by fatuous "believing" of some
vicarious excusing? Do not delude yourself. Justice obtains throughout
God's universe. Whatever you do, you must go on living with yourself
throughout life, and life is continuous — unending. You can progress
or retrogress. The choice is up to you. You are today making fate.
The beauty, harmony, happiness, and peace of today are fruits
of righteousness demonstrated in previous lives. How build ye
today?
— Ernest Crutcher, M.D., 32°
— Rays from the Rose Cross Magazine, September/October, 1995
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