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THE POWER OF KARMA the search for truth, and thus have become entitled to recover what they gained in bygone ages. This illustrates the working of the Karmic Law to which I have already referred.
R- was an infantryman in the American War, 1861-1865. He tells how in the spring of ’64, his regiment was quartered at Nashville, Tennessee. One night, when on camp guard duty, he saw a man approaching, who, on being observed, spoke to R-- and saluted. Upon R- returning his salute he came nearer and said: “Your name is R--" “Right," was the reply; "and you were bom on February 22nd, 1844," continued the stranger. "How did you find that out ?” queried R "I do not know you," continued the other, "but have been guided to you. I am a member of an order, which has been lost to public knowledge for many ages; I am a member of the ancient order of the Magi which flourished thousands of years ago. I am about to die, and am bound by the Powers that rule me to convey certain secrets which I hold to another who shall live after me.
"You,” he continued, "are that successor, and I wish you to come to me at No. Street some evening, and very soon, for I have not long to live.” R- 's curiosity being aroused,
