A Philosophical Approach
to the Creation of New Karma
to the Creation of New Karma
An Anonymous Author
A habit may be compared to a lion’s whelp
Habit at first is but a silken thread,
Fine as the light-winged
gossamers that sway
In the warm sunbeams of a summer’s
day;
A shallow streamlet,
rippling over its bed;
A tiny sapling ere its roots
are spread;
A yet unhardened thorn upon
the spray;
A lion’s whelp that has not
scented prey;
A little smiling child
obedient led.
Beware! That thread may bind
thee as a chain;
That streamlet gather to a
fatal sea;
That sapling spread into a
gnarled tree;
That thorn, grown hard, may
wound and give thee pain;
That playful whelp his
murderous fangs reveal;
That child, a giant, crush
thee beneath his heel.
000
The above poem
was first published at the theosophical magazine “Lucifer”, in London, in its
May 1890 edition, p. 224. The word “Lucifer” is the ancient wisdom term for the planet Venus. Since the Middle Ages its meaning has been distorted
by misinformed theologians.
000
In September 2016, after a careful analysis of the state of the
esoteric movement worldwide, a group of students decided to form the Independent Lodge of Theosophists,
whose priorities include the building of a better future in the different
dimensions of life.
000
