KARMA - Is It A Load Of Theosophical Dogma?

Karma is termed by many as the Law of Consequences as applied to a system of merit and demerit. For others it is a matter of spiritual evolution.  Some believe that Karma lies down on the Astral planes of the planet waiting for the Soul’s Theosophical Devahanic state of bliss to come to an end.  Is Karma a punishment for past sins and misdemeanors and how many lifetimes must the Soul pay for these obstructions to Universal Justice?

The Hermetic  Doctrine of Karma states:

• Karma is not an active principle but, on the contrary, it is a crystallized force. It is the picture gallery or cosmic play of nature.
• Karma constitutes the scenery, essence, and mental imagery of a person’s total past existence.
• The Karmic spheres of an individual’s existence exists as Astral life currents along which the soul traveled and which become crystallized forms. These are expressive of the actions and motives which prompted them. Therefore, our past Karma constitutes the Soul’s past history in Astral light. It can be deciphered by the properly trained Lucid, and even by some mediumistic clairvoyants.
• Karma is the offspring of everything, or everything that possesses pictorial records of its past evolutions. It is by means of this Karma that the psychometric sensitive can read the unwritten past.  Without Karma the power of Psychometry would be totally useless. However, they can only deal with small Karmas. On a grander scale, the Karma of moons, planets, suns, and systems exist. Races of men, species of animals and classes of plants also evolve special racial Karma which constitute their Astral world.
• The harmonies and discords of Cosmic evolution generate their special Karma just as thoughts and emotions do.
• Karma is absolutely confined to the realms of the Astral light, and consequently is always subjective. Karma can only exist as long as the Soul which generates it is attached to the same planet. When the Soul leaves the planet, the Karma disintegrates. A Soul cannot carry its Karma around the Universe with it, since Astral light differs in quality and degree upon each orb.
• When the Soul enters the spiritual planes of the Soul world (Devachan) the power of its earthly Karma can never re-attract it to earth. It’s influence over the Soul is lost forever. The lower can never control the higher. To assert that the past fossilized Karma can re-attract the Soul from the realms of spiritual happiness and re-project it into the mire of earth is to exalt matter to the throne of Deity. This degrades pure Spirit to the level of a passive brute substance.

From the seven Hermetic statements above, do you think what has been stated is the real essence of Karma  and if so, do you also believe that Karma is the subjective outcome of innumerable laws and forces of life and is powerless to effect good or evil?