Karma
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a term used by the Buddhists to denote action, both meritorious and otherwise. When a human being dies, his Karma is transferred to some other being, regulating all the circumstances of his existence. Karma- visaya, one of the four things which, according to Buddhists, cannot be understood by one who is not of their number. Karma-visaya denotes how it is that effects are produced by the instrumentality of Karma (q.v.) The other three things which only a Buddhist can understand are,
(1) Irdhi-Visaya, how it was that Buddha could go, in the snapping of a finger, from the world of men to the Brahma-Lokas;
(2) Lokavisaya, the size of the universe, or how it was first brought into existence;
(3) Buddha-Visaya, the power and wisdom of Buddha
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
The unbroken sequence, according to the Theosophists, of cause and effect, in which every effect is regarded the cause of the next.
