Where did karma come from?

The concept of karma and the enforcing principles, designed into the vast fabric of the universe of energy, was a divine creation. We created this force to be the great leveler, the ultimate imposition of justice and order, so nothing could get too far out of alignment to threaten the whole, as the Law of Karma would step in and create a counterposing force to rein in excesses and, in effect, heal by rebalancing things and restore order once again. The logic of this is quite compelling as this keeps power out of the hands of evildoers to a significant degree. There is always a built-in limit of harm they can cause because the universe will respond in kind and in proportion to restore what they destroy, to give them a consequence, a punishment in a sense, from the experiencing of their own negativity they themselves created and unleashed on others. It will return to them one day and will also be amplified to a certain extent by the addition of all the secondary and tertiary consequences of their misdeeds as it spreads through a circle of people who are affected, and each in turn diminished in some way to feel the negativity. Their interactions with others, by being dragged down to some extent, will be harmed as well and the quality lessened by the exercise. This, too, is a kind of wounding—the generation of lack—and this consequence as well is stored and on record, and the imbalance that results will also trigger a karmic consequence in parallel that will return to the perpetrator for restitution. Experiencing personally the pain and suffering one has caused is the most powerful of lessons one could devise. This is what makes karma so effective, because it is a perfect energetic representation of the original event and will return unfailingly to teach the perpetrator the error of their ways. There is wisdom in having an automatic system of this kind. For one thing, it takes over a tremendous burden that otherwise would be all-consuming to deal with the many, many variations and shades of intensity and character of expression with regard to the consequences of every act in play simultaneously, of every being. It also creates a very accurate and proportionate response that is, at the same time, dispassionate. It is the individual who determines their own fate because each of their actions will have a karmic consequence. And that being the case, they are their own judge and jury, and executioner, so to speak, because everything they do, in effect, will be done to them. Once this is understood, it changes the behavior because the perpetrator can see the folly of causing harm to another if it is guaranteed they themselves will be harmed and most likely to a greater degree through this amplification that takes place. So it is a kind of a self-correcting mechanism to keep things orderly and on automatic pilot, so to speak.