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Excerpts from an Address by

BELOVED SANAT KUMARA

1953

Your life, qualified by your own free will, forms either part of the shroud of death, the depression and heaviness which weighs upon the peoples of earth, or becomes part of that melting, radiant power of light that consumes the shadows, part of that activity of redemption for which the Brotherhood works. 

That life, having come forth through the door of your own individuality, has no way to return home to the Father but through the Sacred Fire of your heart, through its own Redeemer, by which it becomes purified. You call it karma... it is merely innocent life and on its return journey it simply carries back to you the same quality that you sent forth. When it touches your world (if it is uncomfortable) you repel it, and if you will not allow it to find its way back to the Father from whence it came, it remains part of your unconsumed human heritage of destructive karma until you can welcome it, redeem it through the Violet Transmuting Flame, and return it to the Sun from whence it came happily and joyously. 

Not one thing can touch you, not one thing can enter your world except that which you have sent forth previously. In the knowledge of the Sacred Fire, in the knowledge of the Transmuting Flame as that energy presses back for redemption that much of the earth's shroud, that much of the death garment will be transformed as it passes through the Sacred Fire, and you, standing in dignity and honor, consciously return it to the Universal as pure light... as part of my ransom.