Is it best to call down all your past Karma?

Is it best to call down all your past Karma, so that you can wipe it out in one life?

It is a great mistake to demand that you have all your Karma given to you in one life. 

It is just as great a misunderstanding of the Divine Law and just as wrong as to try to eat at one meal all the food needed for a week. 

The great angelic Lords of Karma apportion to each Soul exactly what each Soul is able to bear and work out advantageously in each life. 

Yet the Law is that if you demand and insist, you must be allowed to have your demand, and by the sad experiencing of that for which you are not prepared or able to use, learn your lessons just as you would learn through indigestion not to eat all the food in sight. 

But you need not have gone through the suffering had you been willing to accept what the Law had apportioned to you.

If you ask for all your Karma to be precipitated, the great load is poured out upon you before you are strong enough to cope with it and you are forced to admit your weakness and turn to the Great Law for help, for you have tried to do in one life that which should have been spread out over many lives as you were ready to work it out constructively and harmoniously. Moreover, by making the demand, you have made more Karma.

In a sense, such a demand is an impertinent and conceited rebuke to the great Lords of Karma, for it assumes that Their judgment as to what is best for you is inferior to your own. 

Also, if your entire time and attention is taken up in fighting and being pushed to the utmost to bear that which was not assigned to you, you have little time and strength left to cultivate the positive qualities of love and joy or to help others. 

Yet in this world of sorrow and trouble, it is most important that these qualities be definitely cultivated and lifted up and radiated, especially by those who are at all advanced and to whom others may look for help and guidance and example and thus make the world a little less like a purgatory. 

Therefore, you make a great mistake when you try so to fill your life with negative Karma to be redeemed that you make your life joyless.

You will thus see that very often when you think yourself the least selfish, you are in reality manifesting but a higher sort of selfishness and a sort of personal pride in the amount of suffering you are able to bear. 

If you do not care for worldly things, and it is no deprivation to do without them—hence it is no sacrifice—yet all the time you are ardently desiring other possessions, personal powers, and so on, can you not see that when you demand the thing you desire most, you are asking for the gratification of your own wishes just as much as if they were for material possessions while you should be joyously and happily taking what your Father sees is best and asking daily for strength and wisdom to utilise it wisely and learn its lessons? 

When you strive to make the Divine Will your will, you have the strength to meet and conquer all things and are never overwhelmed.

You cannot expect supernatural help to bear burdens, which the Great Law never intended you should bear in one life. 

You have many important things to learn and do in life besides bearing burdens and suffering. And sometimes, it is more difficult to turn your mind away from yourself and your woes and be joyful and radiate happiness than it is to crucify yourself, for you have to be very far advanced indeed to hang upon the cross and still radiate joy to the world instead of suffering and agony.