| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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The Buddhist’s judgment, which determines at death the future state of the deceased. It is also their fiat on actions, pronouncing them to be meritorious or otherwise. | 1 |
 In Theosophy, it means the unbroken sequence of cause and effect; each effect being, in its turn, the cause of a subsequent effect. It is a Sanscrit word, meaning “action” or “sequence.” | 2 |
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“The laws which determine the physical attribution, condition of life, intellectual capacities, and so forth, of the new body, to which the Ego is drawn by affinities … are … in Buddhism [called] Karma.”—Nineteenth Century, June, 1893, p. 1025. |
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