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ON CAUSE AND EFFECT 

The mixing of certain foods together forms a very pleasant and edible concoction which is a source of happiness and satisfaction to your families and friends. You set up a cause by mixing those various individual foods and the ultimate result will be effect you desire. 

In this very simple example you have no Law of Karma - Cause and effect. You know before you begin what the effect will be and you proceed with assurance that if you adhere unerringly to the necessary rules and regulations that your ultimate presentation will be not only beautiful, but tasty. 

What you have done in your culinary experience, you can do equally well in life. If you would put the proper qualities together you would have the same effect - with the same degree of accuracy - and you would have as desirable a manifestation as you had in your cooking; but, because the qualities of fearlessness, confidence, strength and purity are unseen quantities, mankind feels that they can put a little less or a little more of one or the other into their original Cause and still have a desirable effect. Where no wise person in a culinary department would tamper with an intricate recipe and expect perfect results. 

You may draw as much love, as much fearlessness, as much Light, as much happiness as you desire into any picture that you may hold in your mind, whether it is for the strength and endurance of someone you love or for the freedom of the whole race, and if you continue to reject all unpleasant feeling and thoughts from your mental and emotional picture, (even as you would reject poison or any other unpleasant substance from your cake) you would be successful in your manifestation. 

If you were preparing a special dish for your family you would not allow anyone to drop ink or glue or waste matter into it - you would know without my saying so that the result would be imperfect - and yet human beings, in drawing a perfect picture for their loved ones or for their homes or their business, allow any passing thought that proceeds from the ignorant minds of men to flow into that form and pollute it. Remember that the effect will carry the taint of that which you allowed to enter your cause, either consciously or unconsciously for that is the Law. 

As below, so above; in the Realm of the Ascended Masters - they, too, follow the same Law that is being worked out with such difficulty in the Third Dimensional Plane as Cause and Effect. The Theosophical World has called it Karma and it has become a mesh of intricate design which has caught the soul - rather than an exquisite proof of creative power focused within each human heart. In the Ascended Master octave if effect did not proceed from Cause the Masters would have no power to follow through any design, but as the human mind is thoroughly convinced that two and two make four - so does the Master know without question of a doubt that effects will follow Causes set up within their heart and mind consciousness. Try it out for yourself.

Love and Blessing,

THE MAHA CHOHAN