74 Evolution of Life and Form. 



that there outraged humanity in the centuries gone 

 by. Thus the Gods are needed to bring nations 

 together to balance up these accounts between the 

 races, and so to restore equilibrium once again. 

 Thus they work, using men as their agents, and 

 they bring about these national results. Partly 

 they do it by bringing to birth, at a particular 

 time, men whose individual karma fits them to be 

 the agents of the collective karma of the nation. 

 What was more striking in the Spanish war which 

 has just closed, than the absolute incapacity 

 shown by the men who were the rulers of Spain? 

 Whence came they? They were men who in the 

 past by their individual karma had fitted them- 

 selves for the sorry fate of incapable rulers, and 

 they were guided by the Gods to take birth in the 

 families which give rulers to Spain, in order that, 

 by their weakness and ineptitude, by their 

 cowardice and their want of foresight, they might 

 serve as men to lead their nation to destruction, the 

 fitting instruments for the working out of Spain's 

 evil karrna. See also how at the fit time great men 

 arise to lead a nation to victory. These men are 

 also chosen by the Gods beforehand because of 

 their individual karma, and they are brought to 

 birth in the place and at the time when they are 

 wanted for the working out of the collective karma 



