Karma, Reincarnation & Christianity – Part 1 of Full Lecture, October 11, 1991

Karma, Reincarnation & Christianity
Part one of Full Lecture, October 11, 1991

LECTURE TRANSCRIPT

Good evening, everyone. [“Good evening, Mother.”] I am very happy to be here with you in New Orleans. I am grateful to all of you who have come from all over the country and I welcome those of you who are new to our teachings. I’ve looked forward to speaking to you this evening about “Karma, Reincarnation and Christianity.”

I’d like to open our meeting tonight with an invocation. Won’t you stand. [Handel’s “Pastoral Symphony” played during the following invocation:]

INVOCATION:

Beloved Mighty I AM Presence from the heart of God in the Great Central Sun, Lord God Almighty, we assemble beneath thy vine and fig tree. In the name I AM THAT I AM, I invoke the presence of the Blessed Virgin, belovedSaint Joseph, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

I call to the Seven Archangels, legions of heaven from the Central Sun. Angels of the Lord, be with us in this hour for the victory of thy flame, O God, within our hearts.

In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother, I call forth the victory of the SacredHeart of Jesus in our hearts, the victory of Divine Love in our hearts.

O let thy circle of fire descend and the cherubim and seraphim of God. O Lord, we invoke thee. Let thy HolySpirit come unto us and enlighten us in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Since we all desire to know the truth, as Jesus said, “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free,” won’t you offer a prayer to Jesus as we prepare to sing to him, “Jesus, Master Divine,” which is page 10 of this booklet.

INVOCATION :

Beloved Jesus, we call to you in this hour to enlighten us. Let the mighty two-edged sword descend to divide the Real from the Unreal in our consciousness and in our hearts and in our lives. We call for the everlasting truth of thy Christhood to ma, to be made known unto us that we might realize thy true faith, thy love and thy divine and universal doctrine which is unto all people. Amen.

* [Song 73, “Jesus, Master Divine,” sung 1x.]

I am grateful, as I know you are grateful, for our beloved country, our Founding Fathers, the sacred freedoms and especially freedom of religion. That we can come togever this evening and have that guarantee of freedom of religion is a gift that we have not known for thousands of years upon this earth, that we can disagree and commune together and find the single point of agreement to be Divine Love while we might yet differ according to the doctrines of men. And so for this great opportunity, before we begin I’d like to invite you to sing with me “God Bless America.”

* [Song 686, “God Bless America,” sung 1x.]

Thank you. Won’t you be seated and make yourselves comfortable. I’d you’d like to take notes, you’re welcome to do so.

I believe that the concept of karma and reincarnation are the most important concepts that we can know and understand to discover the meaning of life, to answer imponderable questions, to understand our reason for being and to truly understand what Jesus Christ and the apostles, the prophets and the patriarchs taught and what they lived, what is recorded in the scriptures of the Judeo-Christian tradition . All of it is there.

Jesus did teach reincarnation. But I am not going to begin my speaking to you this evening with Jesus’ teaching but I am going to take it in a sequence that starts from the beginning and goes to the very present hour.

I’d like to tell you about my own journey on the Path to begin with because God revealed the concept of reincarnation to me at a very real early age.

How many here have had an experience where you have remembered a past life somehow someway? Raise your hands high. There’s quite a few people here this evening who have had that experience. How many of you have never had a sense of ever remembering a past life? Quite a few of you also.

Before we’re through I think some of you who think you haven’t remembered a past life will realize that you have and that is in the sense of being very familiar with a certain situation or location or with a certain person or group of people, having an instantaneous dislike or even a sense of danger around some people and a sense of having known someone else a long time, finding it very easy to get to know someone.

We have little hints but, as a matter of fact, God in his mercy draws the shade. It’s a curtain of forgetfulness when we enter the birth canal. It is a mercy to us because we have an assignment for this life. We shouldn’t spend our days wishing we were who we used to be or longing for the good ol’ days that might have been better. We need to be locked into the here and now and recognize what an opportunity it is to be in embodiment, to have the blessing of being in a place of liberty and opportunity as we do to work out the karma of the past.

I just want to tell you that when I was about four years old and playing in a little play area that was fenced and a beautiful garden that was created by my parents, I was playing in my sandbox. It was a beautiful day. The clouds were moving over head and this was in New Jersey in Red Bank where I was born. And all of a sudden as though someone turned a dial I was a child playing in the sand along the Nile River. And I experienced the beauty of that scene as a child. It was as real as where I had just been in my own little play yard.

After some time, I don’t know how much time passed, it was as though the dial turned again and I was back at home, back in that little play yard. I wasn’t dizzy. I wasn’t dazed. I hadn’t passed out. I was just continuing to play in the sand.

So I jumped up and I ran to find my mother. I found her cooking at the kitchen stove. And I said, “Mother,” and I, then I recounted what had happened to me. And I said, “What happened?” And she sat me down and sat and looked at me across the table and she said, “You have remembered a past life.” Instead of ridiculing or denying what I had sper, experienced, she explained to me that the soul does not necessarily have the ability to accomplish her mission, her reason for being in a single lifetime and that the soul is eternal.

And so if we need another lifetime and another to fulfill our mission, God gives us a new mommy and daddy and we come out of a new mommy’s tummy. But it’s the same soul. It’s the same person. And our body is like a coat we wear. It wears out before we’re through with what we have to do. She explained to me in the simplest childlike terms that I could understand.

I had already observed children who were born maimed or blind, some people gifted, some people wealthy. She said she could never understand an unjust God in terms of one life, that the justice of God must be the continuity of being.

My heart pondered God and Jesus as I had been praying to Jesus since a small child. I saw the naturalness of it. And I realized that there must be some reason why God had showed me this past life. And I didn’t find out the reason till I was well into adulthood and realized that that life was key to the work that I had to do in this life.

No doubt at that moment there was transferred to me some substance of myself, perhaps some heavy karma that I had to balance, a mission I had not fulfilled in that moment of that glimpse into the distant past.

Since that time God has revealed to me other incarnations where I have learned lessons of momentums of good that I have built which I could build upon, of mistakes I have made, some serious mistakes, serious karma that I had to balance in this life. That, in fact, is why we are all here.

You have wonderful m, momentums of good karma that you bring with you and you also have negative karma that must be balanced with individuals, persons no doubt in your family today, people you know or people you will meet. Life is a challenge and an opportunity.

A long time ago reincarnation and karma was removed from Church doctrine and Christendom has suffered ever since.

Since this is such a key thread in the understanding of our souls’ journey, I ask you to stay with me this evening because I have much to say on the subject. I don’t want to leave a stone unturned in bringing to you this understanding so that you can do your own research, meditate and consider what you come to in your own heart regarding this subject. You should not believe something because I say it but because the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking to you in your own heart and confirming that truth.

I have always walked and talked with Jesus and Jesus has always answered my questions about scripture, about the sermons of the pastors and ministers, about the mass, about the rabbis and so forth. I have read my Bible all of my life and asked Jesus for answers and he has either answered me immediately or perhaps many years later.

I know that your life is walking and talking with Jesus also as you make it so. But you have to have a listening ear to listen for the Lord. Make time and space when there is quiet in your life, when you’re alone, when you walk in a beautiful place or a garden and so you can speak to God without the clamor of so many voices of the world and so many noises we are subject to.

So I shall begin with all the joy of my heart in bringing this subject to you.

The belief in reincarnation is ancient and widespread.    In 1886 the Reverend W. R. Alger wrote A Critical History of a Doctrine of a Future Life.  It became the standard Christian work on the subject of immortality .

In his book Alger wrote:

“No other doctrine has exerted so extensive, controlling and permanent an influence upon mankind as that of metempsychosis , and that’s another word for reincarnation: the notion that when the soul leaves the body it is born anew in another body–its rank, character, circumstance and experience in each successive existence depending on its qualities, deeds and attainments in…preceding lives.”

Before the advent of Christianity, reincarnation was a part of the spiritual beliefs of many of the peoples of Europe, including the early Teutonic tribes, the Finns, Icelanders, Lapps, Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Germans, early Saxons, and the Celts of Ireland, Scotland, England, Brittany, Gaul, France and Wales.

The Welsh have even claimed that it was the Celts who originally carried the belief in reincarnation to India. Author Ignatius Donnelly suggests that the Celts’ belief in reincarnation was derived from the inhabitants of lost continent of Atlantis who had migrated to Ireland.

In ancient Greece, both Pythagoras and Plato believed in reincarnation.    In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras taught that the soul had many incarnations, which were the opportunities for the soul to purify and perfect itself. ” The human soul is immortal,” he said, “for it resembles the heavenly stars, and like them is involved in perpetual motion.” According to his biographer , Pythagoras claimed that he had been embodied in the past as Aethalides and Euphorbus and that he had died at the hands of Menelaus at Troy.

In the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., Plato taught that the soul is immortal and that its circumstances in its current life depend on its disposition formed in a previous life. He tells the story of a group of souls about to embody who are advised by a prophet: “Virtue owns no master. He who honors her shall have more of her, and he who slights her less. The responsibility lies with the chooser. Heaven is guiltless.”

According to some scholars, statements made by the first-century Jewish historian Josephus indicate that the Pharisees and Essenes believed in reincarnation. Others believe these are references to the resurrection of the dead in new bodies.

Some tribes of American Indians as well as numerous tribes in Central and South America have believed in reincarnation.

Reincarnation was also taught by students of the Cabala, a system of jewish, of Jewish esoteric mysticism that arose in the thirteenth century. Reincarnation is still a part of the religious beliefs of the jewish, of the Jewish Hasidic movement, founded in the eighteenth century.

Today the belief in reincarnation also exists among over one hundred tribes in Africa as well as among Eskimo and Central Australian tribes and many peoples of the South Pacific, including Hawaiians, Tahitians, Melanesians and Okinawans.

The most elaborately developed concepts of reincarnation are found today in the religious traditions of India–especially Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.  In these religions reincarnation is linked with the law of karma.

Karma is a Sanskrit word meaning act, action, work or deed. In Hinduism karma originally meant sacred actions or moral deeds. It was later associated with the concept of reincarnation in another body or form of life. Some in the Eastern religious traditions do believe that a human can reembody as an animal and vice versa, although many do not believe it is necessarily a common occurrence.

Some say that a person who has a very low state of consciousness and has done cruel deeds may reembody as an animal. Others do not see the animal state as a punishment but as a necessary experience in one’s spiritual evolution.

Maybe Pythagoras subscribed to this theory. One of his contemporaries once told the following story: “They say that while walking past a dog that was being beaten, Pythagoras took pity and said: ‘Stop! Strike no more! I recognize the voice. It is the soul of my friend'” [laughter]

You see every dog–and dogma–has his day. [laughter]

According to the law of karma as it is taught in the East, your thoughts, words and deeds in past lives have determined the conditions of your present life, and your thoughts, words and deeds in this life will determine your destiny in future lives.

It’s a bit difficult to expect, it’s a bit difficult to accept that. People like to blame their parents or circumstances or heredity or what happened to them when they were children or the opportunities they missed, everything but ourselves.

I happen to think that Christianity perpetuates that sense of wauning, wanting someone else to carry the burden of our karma, in other words, the burden of our sin. And so if some calamity happens to us we think, “Well, something has caused it other than myself.” But if we get into the driver’s seat of our lives and take responsibility for our actions then we see we begin to meditate upon the justice of the universe.

I myself have certainly not had an easy life. I recall requesting before I took embodiment to have a major porn, a major portion of my karma descend at birth and it did. And I realize that many of the things that have happened to me have come about by my own doings. And of course, it is true that all things come about because of one’s doings.

I have understood this law in my heart before it was ever taught to me. In my sense, then, of God and the universe, I have only gratitude for the lessons that I’ve learned from my karma. And my motto is that there is no injustice anywhere in the universe. That is an amazing statement to accept because there seem to be so many injustices everywhere around us in things that befall us.

But if we really understood the continuity of being and all that we have said and done in many past ages, we would see that those words and deeds return to us as our teachers. And if they are not so nice, then not so nice things happen to us so that we can self-correct and see how it feels to have been on the receiving end of what we sent forth in this or a previous lifetime.

I think it is the coming of age of a soul and of a man and of a woman and of a child to reach that point of maturity to say, “Whatever comes to me I will receive it with rejoicing, knowing that as I balance and resolve this situation I can move forward into my communion with God and ultimately to that day when I can attain permanent reunion with my Father-Mother.”

So Hinduism and Buddhism teach that the law of karma is a universal law of cause and effect that affects everyone. As Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The law of karma operates automatically and without prejudice .

This is why there is no injustice. We think that some people get away with everything, we get away with nothing. A that makes us chafe a bit and wonder if there is a just God. We have to simply be at peace and remember the scripture, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, thus saith the Lord.” Therefore it is ours to forgive. God will meet out his justice and we certainly do not wish harm upon even those who are self-styled enemies.

Karma functions on an individual as well as on a group level. As the twentieth-century Hindu yogi Yogananda wrote: “The cumulative actions of human

beings within communities, nations or the world as a whole constitutes mass karma, which produces local or far-ranging effects according to the degree and preponderance of good or evil. The thoughts and actions of every man, therefore, contribute to the good or ill of this world and all peoples in it.”

There is then such a thing as personal karma, something very personal between you and me alone, one by one. And then there is group karma. Entire nations have made karma because of their stand against life, many kinds of situations where people as a group agree upon things, commit acts together and therefore must reembody together, millions of people coming together.

It has been said and it is true that America is Atlantis come again, that most of us lived on Atlantis and are here to make right those things that we didn’t do right and to have our victory. Atlantis was a teeming continent with great advances in science and technology. So many of our scientists today who have come forth with inventions have already invented them before on Atlantis.

I am sure that if you read the book Phylos, the Thibetan , you will understand that you have lived on Atlantis and you are here to complete a major part of your life story. We have a tremendous opportunity today to do that. And I pray daily for the awakening of the people of America to their divine destiny and why you are here and why you were born in this life.

And I trust, as it is my calling, to help you find the answers to those questions so that you can make the most of every moment and year of the rest of your life and come home to God with a good report that you can joyously stand before the Court of the Sacred Fire and hear the divine approbation, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things” of thy karma, “so I shall make thee ruler over many.”

According to the Eastern teachings, and it is true, karma necessitates rebirth simply because you can’t reap all the effects of your karma in a single lifetime. There’s just not enough time to be on the receiving end of the things we do in this life in this life.

There is a misunderstanding among some in the West that the Eastern concept of karma is fatalistic. Many people say to me, “Oh, you be lieve in karma. You’ll be taking another million years before you get to God.”

And I say, “Oh, no, that is not the concept of karma. I also believe in the grace of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And I expect to balance my karma in this life.” But that’s getting ahead of my story. And I am going to tell you how you can balance your karma in this life before we’re through.

So some people think that Hindus believe that there’s no way out of your karma , you’ll be embodying here forever. But it ‘s really not the pure teaching of Hinduism and Buddhism. The Hindu teaching on karma, as described in the Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook, is that “the fruits of karma are reaped in the form of happiness or misery, according to the nature of each thought and act. Although each person imposes upon himself the limitation of his own character as determined by his own past thoughts and actions, at the same time he can choose to follow the tendency he has formed or to struggle against it. The area of choice or free will in each individual reflects the freedom of the Atman, the indwelling Spirit.”

Devotion to God, enhancing good karmas, and mitigating evil ones begins to loosen the bonds of karma. When a man achieves illumination, his acts cease to produce karmas.

This is the great gift we have from God, the gift of free will. This is what makes us different from all other species. The power of free will is endowed in us by the gift of the essence of God, the divine spark.

You have a tiny flame in your heart, a spiritual flame. It is sealed there. It is the point of the Trinity–the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

The Divine Mother resides in your temple through the rising light of the sacred fire on the spine from the base to the crown. Sometimes you feel that in meditation. Some of you may have practiced yoga for this purpose. We are the temple of the living God and the scriptures say so. “What? Know ye not that ye are the temple of the living God?” So Paul speaks.

Yet why, why do some prelates deny that the Spirit of the living God lives in us? If we are the children of God then we must be born of the essence of God. And that essence is the spiritual fire.

The spiritual fire gives us the free will to obey the voice of God within us, which is the voice of conscience. We may sear conscience with a hot iron, as the apostle said, neutralizing our sensitivity to the inner right and wrong of that inner voice. But the voice is there if we will listen, always guiding us.

And so free will allows us to look at a horrendous karma that may come upon us. Suddenly we wake up in the morning, our wife has left with our children, our husband has disappeared, our house has burned down, our business is destroyed. Calamities come upon people. But because we have free will we can say, “I will not be moved by this karma. I understand it as a blessing and as a teaching. I will overcome it. I will get beyond it. I will contact my God. He has never failed me. He will never fail me yet.”

When you meet adversity with the joy that it is a challenge, just as a racehorse has to meet new lengths and new speeds, just as you have rejoicing in mastering a sport or any other area of your life, when you see that God is giving you something that you can deal with because the scriptures affirm that God will not give you any temptation that you are not capable of withstanding and so whatever you have to deal with you can deal with–you can deal with that karma. You just have to get a mind-set that you can deal with it instead of the mind-set that you can’t. And you roll up your sleeves and you decide to begin all over again.

It’s like the people that suffered from the Hurricane Hugo. Their houses were destroyed. The government waited forever to give them money to rebuild them. When it finally came they were beyond repair so they all got new houses. And so now three years later their property levels of value have gone way up, doubled and tripled. And they’re all happy that Hugo came along because they had such a blessing. [laughter]

But it was a karma. It was a karma that had a mercy element to it. Hurricanes are manmade. They are vortices of human hatred. They are the karma of world hated re, hatred returning upon us. And yet when calamities fell upon the certain city, Jesus said, “Think not that all the people in that city were evil. There’re just as many evil people in other cities.”

So we should never point the finger at people and say, “Aha, his karma has descended. He must be a bad person.” Watch out because on the morrow you may be dealing with your own karma.

So, Professor Ninian Smart writes that “the Buddha was clearly impressed by the principle that knowledge of causes gives one the opportunity to determine the future, so that a proper understanding of karma and its causality should in no way involve fatalistic conclusions.”

Gautama Buddha ” attacked Makkhali Gosala, a contemporary teacher, for holding a fatalistic predestinationism” which denied that man’s actions had any influence in determining his future.

Now this is a very important teaching because this brings in prophecy and tomorrow evening I am going to give you an additional lecture than those on the program, an update on prophecy concerning world conti, concerning world conditions.

And, now, what is prophecy? Prophecy is the reading by God, in my case delivered to me through the Holy Spirit as the gift of prophecy, that tells us what will happen in the future if we don’t obey the laws of God, if we don’t change our ways, if we don’t do something to stop that calamity, whether it’s war or the economy or earth changes or whatever may be coming along.

Astrology is God’s handwriting in the skies. It’s the handwriting of karma. Your astrology chart when you are born tells you what good momentums of the past you’re bringing with you that’s the wind in your sails, that’s the momentum that’s going to drive and carry you by which you will conquer the negative momentums that are in your negative astrology.

So when you see that negative astrology, you say, “This is a path of initiation and soul-testing, this is karma, these are lessons I have to learn. I am going to take my good momentums and I am going to take that strength and I am going to conquer the bad momentums and I am going to win in this life.”

So we’re not superstitious about astrology. It gives us a foretelling of the future, of what calamities could come upon us, of what bad traits could come about, of what things we could get in trouble with in our lives, what weaknesses we have. When we see them and we are enlightened, then we can pray about it. We can call to God. We can call to Jesus to help us and the saints and the Archangels. We can ask for that divine assistance and receive it.

So free will plus an understanding of the future as the handwriting on the wall enables t, us to become masters of our life. And that’s a very, very important key. And the Ascended Masters have developed this subject extensively in their teachings especially on the science of decreeing.

How then are you going to stop the chain of rebirth?

How many people here would rather attain union with God and ascend in the glory of the resurrection than return in another lifetime? [laughter] A lot of people. I don’t know if there’s a hand that didn’t go up here [laughter]. A few of you probably have the sense that you have a mission to accomplish beyond the year 2000 and you’d like to come back and do it, which is fine. But with Saint Germain’s teaching, with Saint Joseph and all that we have been given you can accomplish that. But I can tell you it’s hard work. And if you are going to accomplish it in this life, you’re going to have to roll up your sleeves starting tonight and put your shoulder to the plow and really get on with balancing that karma in many ways.

So the question has been asked in all times: How do we stop the chain of rebirth? And the saints and sages of the Eastern religions have answered that question in many different ways.

The Jains believe that you can destroy karma through purification, penance and austerity. Hindu theologians teach that you achieve liberation from the round of rebirth through the realization that the individual soul is one with the Absolute or Ultimate Reality, called Brahman. Hindu texts advocate the practice of different “yogas” as ways to gain knowledge of union with Brahman. Hinduism teaches that surrender to God, the dissolution of bad karma, and the creation of good karma can help free the individual from the bondage of karma and rebirth.

I am going to be teaching you those very techniques and just tau, not talking about them throughout this weekend.

That’s why we are here, to show you how to balance karma in many different ways, how to pass your tests, how to recognize your tests and how to achieve oneness with God, with Brahman, to walk and talk, not only with Jesus Christ but with the Spirit of that Christ who is also within you.

Gautama Buddha taught that in order to be liberated from the cycle of rebirth (called samsara) you must extinguish craving, or desire. He said inordinate desire is what causes all suffering and negative karma and results in rebirth.

Take an example: You want something so bad that somebody else has that you start coveting it. You start being upset that somebody has something that you want and you don’t have it. You start getting upset with God that he didn’t give you what that other person has. You can get so upset about it that you can devise a masterful plot of deceit to steal it from that person or to steal in a tremendous way where you’re dealing in, in the stealing of goods at the level of international crime. That is inordinate desire.

Why do you need all those things when God is inside of you, when the riches and the abundance of God are with you? So when you have inordinate desires that break the commandments, that violate the rights of others and the peace of others, you can know that you are making karma. So you have to watch your thoughts and feelings and bring your life into alignment with circumstance.

We need to accept our lot, our karmic lot. Whether it’s to be poor or rich, what does it matter? It doesn’t go with us in any case. What’s important is that we express love in that circumstance, that we share with others when we have and we depend on God when we have not.

The joy and the beauty of life then is to not have inordinate desires about anything because inordinate desires do cause us to sin.

Gautama Buddha saw that and he saw that the cause of suffering was inordinate desire. And so he taught that the Eightfold Path is the means to salvation. The eightfold path avoids inordinate desire. And these are eight points of that path and you will find if you embody them in your life you are on the road to sowing positive karma.

First of all the attainment of Right Understanding, or Right Knowledge. If you are ignorant of the laws of God and the laws of man, you will break those laws. So we seek understanding in our hearts. We begin with communion with God but we also get ourselves educated for our purpose and mission.

Then there is Right Aspiration . Do you want to l, to win the lottery or win in Las Vegas or do you want to receive the riches of God because you are a servant of God and they come to you as a reward of good works? Aspiring to the highest should be your goal and then you will not err.

Right Speech: The tongue is an evil thing, so the apostle h, James has written. It is very evil. And it comes forth with fire to the hurt of many. And so right speech is the control of the tongue, what we say and how we say it. We can say something with joy and love or with sarcasm and degrading others.

Watch your speech. Listen to what you say to people and then ask yourself, “Would I like to be on the receiving end of what I have just said?” And if you wouldn’t, remember sooner or later you will. And those words will come back to you. And sometimes when people talk a lot you can see it could take many lifetimes for everything to [laughter] reach back. [laughter] That’s why they say silence is golden.

Then there is Right Action and Right Behavior . There is Right Livelihood . If your livelihood contributed, contributes to the degradation of others or the enslavement of others you are making karma. If you are serving liquor to people on a daily basis as your livelihood and contributing to their problem with alcohol, you’re going to have to balance that karma. If you’re trafficking in drugs and causing others to gain a habit of drugs, think of the karma that is upon you for each person who in turn gets that habit through someone else to whom you have sold drugs.

So there are many types of livelihood that cause others suffering.

You need to be careful of how you earn a living and be satisfied with less income and being right with God.

Then there is Right Effort . Our effort needs to be for excellence and not mediocrity. We have to give our best to our employers, to our spouses, to our children and to ourselves and to our God. Fair to middling isn’t good enough. The very best that you can do wherever you are assigned to a task that you must do.

There is Right Mindfulness , keeping our thoughts pure, meditating on the law of God, using the mind to be a chalice for the sacred mysteries and for the reason we came into embodiment, whatever our work is.

There is Right Concentration . If you can’t concentrate on anything for more than a split second then you really can’t meditate on God. Try meditating on God or Jesus at the point of your inner sight, your third eye, for fifteen minutes. And monitor your thoughts and see if you had a stray thought and though about something else while you were trying to think about Jesus. It is very difficult for Westerners to do that.

So the Eightfold Path is how you make good karma.

Now I’d like you to, I’d like to talk to you about karma in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

The law of cause and effect, which is the law of karma, is firmly rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition. I intend to prove that to you right now.

The Old Testament is filled with stories of the hammer of karmic law exacting penalties for bad actions and of the rewards for good actions. You can’t miss karma in the Old Testament.

Starting with the sinking of Atlantis, which is called the Flood of Noah, the karma of Atlantis descended for the misuse of God’s light, a hen, a horrendous misuse of the sacred fire, the creation of animals half human, half animal; the misuse of the light on the altar of the temple, the misuse of science against life. The karma descended horrendously. The entire continent sank for that karma. And it was coming for thousands upon thousands of years as the people had been warned by their prophets and their great teachers of that which would come.

So we begin with Genesis and the Flood of Noah . After that flood, after that sinking of that continent God enjoined Noah and his sons. He said,

“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”

Some Bible commentators, including Scofield, say that this statement shows the beginning of the institution of human government for the protection of human life. It is also states the law of karma. Jesus said the same, “He that taketh the sword shall fall by the sword.” So the taking of life here in scripture requires capital punishment.

Many of us today are against capital punishment. I will tell you what the Ascended Masters say. They teach us that it is better for the soul to learn the lesson quickly through capital punishment for premeditated murder than to rot in jail for fifty or sixty years. When that person passes

through the electric chair or whatever means is the state law, he is free from this embodiment where he committed that murder.

He passes before the Lords of Karma. He reviews what he has done. And where there is remorse and absolute determination to undo that that person may be given a new embodiment within a period of a year, ten years and an opportunity to balance that karma after having studied and learned lessons in schools of Light.

A person could come back, balance the karma for that murder, go on, pay debts to society, be in service to children, to people, to whoever that he has harmed and lived a full life and gone far ahead. Whereas if he remained in jail he could still be in jail instead of having lived that life.

The second reason why capital punishment is so important is because it gives the soul the instantaneous awareness “if you kill, life will be taken from you.” And that message to the soul is deep and it is learned. The soul carries that memory. And the next time the opportunity comes along to murder there will be that restraining action, “This time I will resolve this peaceably. This time I will not murder again.”

In Exodus, God details the law-code for Israel, which includes the command:

“He that smiteth a man so that he die shall surely put to death, shall be surely put to death… If any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”

This shows that the laws of karma were set forth to govern our existence.

In the Book of Obadiah the LORD God warns:

“The day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, so will it be done to you: your deeds will recoil on your own head.”

My father said to me when I was a child and when I was older as he pondered his own life, he said,

“It all comes back to you. It all comes back to you, the good and the bad.”

And that is true and I am certain that if you will look at your life you will see that.

Some of the clearest examples of returning karma in the Old Testament can be seen in the tests and trials of the Israelites during their forty years of wandering in the wilderness.

Moses wuth, was the great Guru of the Israelites and he time and again pleads with God on their behalf. At times, the Israelites so provoke d Moses that he becomes angry and makes karma himself.  Only six weeks after the people make their covenant-pledge with God, they demand that Aaron fashion them a replica of the old gods of Egypt.

When Moses returns from communing with God on Mount Sinai, he sees the people worshiping the golden calf and in his anger breaks the tablets of the law that he had received from God on the mount. The penalty , which means the karma, for the Israelites’ breaking the covenant -pledge with God was death. But through Moses’ intercession the nation is spared, Aaron is saved and only 3,000 people are punished with death.

After they leave the Sinai, the people complain about the manna, they complain about the manna that they had to eat all the time. So the Lord sends them an abundance of quails. When some of the people indulgently eat the quails uncooked, the Lord punishes their lust with a plague, causing the death of many.

The Old Testament has seemed harsh to us, all of its wars, all of the judgments of God that descend. And we say, it is the time before the coming of Jesus Christ. And it is true. But the lessons that are learned here are very difficult lessons. They are strong lessons. They are lessons upon a people who have a heavy karma, a people whom God loves and wants to bring back to himself. And they learn the disobedience to God’s law brings about an untimely passing and that they have to reembody again. And when they do they have a greater awe and reverence for that law.

Without reincarnation it’s impossible to understand how God allows or brings about the death of so many people for seemingly not-so-bad crimes. When we understand karma and reincarnation we are seeing that God wants our souls to get on, to get on with coming into oneness with him. And he has told us, “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” And whether it’s quail or a golden calf or something else that we’re putting before God, God is going to wean us of that.

So often we love someone so much and we don’t realize that we love that person more than we love God. And one day that person is taken from us and we realize that that was the reason, that we must learn to love God with all our soul and heart and mind, and when we do then he is not jealous of our other loves because he is always first.

It takes a lifetime to sort out whether or not you have idols, the idol of yourself or of other persons or things or businesses. It’s important to search our hearts to see if we do. Because when we put something before God we are making karma. It’s inordinate desire to want anything in this world or the next more than we want oneness with God.

On another occasion, Miriam challenges her brother Moses’ authority and she is afflicted with leprosy. But through Moses’ intercessory prayer she is healed. God punishes the leaders of a rebellion led by Korah by causing the earth to open up and swallow them and their families.

Remember this is a people whose karma has caused them to have to be enslaved in Egypt for four hundred years. God delivers them out of this slavery by the miracles of the parting of the Red Sea, by the plagues that come upon Pharaoh and his house and all the people. All of these wonders and miracles God has performed before this people and they still rail against him.

You can see in the momentum of this people that they have railed against God before an, and they have reached the point where their karma must descend, especially in the face of such divine intercession. When God intercedes for us in our life, we must be grateful and set aside that stiff-necked generation and that backbiting.

Fire consumes the supporters of the rebellion. The people nevertheless continue their grumbling and God sends a plague that kills 14,700 of them. The plague is stopped only when Aaron makes an atonement.

When the people again complain about their poor food, the LORD sends fiery serpents to bite them. The people repent and ask Moses to intercede for them, and God instructs him to make a brass serpent. Those who look upon the serpent are healed.

We know that that serpent is the symbol of the caduceus. It’s the symbol of the medical profession today. It’s the coiled serpent winding around the altar of the spine. And when they looked upon it their own sacred fire rose upon the altar of their being. And so it rose to the point of the third eye. And as they had the vision of that sacred fire they were healed of their diseases, because the raising of the sacred fire establishes the wholeness of the Father-Mother God within you.

So at Meribah, the people contend with Moses because they are without water. As we know Moses on many occasions became angry with the people. He was impatient with them. He could not bear to see them in their childish behavior. It was incongruous to him to the utmost to be on the mountain of God, to be in the tent, to be in the tabernacle, to speak with the Lord and then to deal with this people who so lightly took his blessings.

And so on this occasion ro, Moses was angry. The LORD commands Moses to take the rod and speak to the rock that it might give forth water. Aaron was angry with Moses . They were angry with the rebellious Israelites . So Moses strikes the rock twice with his rod instead of obeying God’s command to tell the rock to supply water to the people. Because of Moses’ and Aaron’s unbelief and disobedience, the two, tragically, are forbidden to enter the Promised Land.

That is an example of karma that is just, where God is no respecter of persons. He is not going to favor Moses or Aaron or anyone else. It is comforting that we are all treated equally even though we suffer when we see another burdened.

In the Second Book of Samuel, Uzzah is struck down by God and dies because he touches the sacred ark of the covenant, which by law only a Levite of the priestly class can carry.

The reality here is that there was such light and sacred fire around the ark that the very fire itself could not be contained by one who was not a priest. And it was the energy around the ark that struck him dead. It was an impersonal law. God made the law. It was disobeyed.

Another graphic example of the law of karma comes from the life of David.    David fell in love with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and she conceived a child by him. David secretly assigned Uriah to the front lines of battle where he knew he would be killed, and then married Bathsheba.

The LORD sent the prophet Nathan to tell David that because he had slain Uriah and married his wife, he would be punished. The LORD told David through Nathan that the sword would never be far from his house and that God would give his wives to his neighbor. He said that God forgave David and would not take his life, but the price of his sin would be the life of the child born to Bathsheba. Although David fasted and entreated God to spare the child, the child became sick and died.

David had taken another’s life so the life of his child would be taken. And yet we know that God loved David. David had to learn this lesson and had he not paid the price, he would have had to pay it in a future life. That is the old dispensation of the New Testament, but it is still with us today.

Not in every case does Jesus Christ through grace take upon himself our sins. If it were true none of us would ever suffer any calamity. But we do suffer calamities. We suffer great losses. If you don’t have the understanding of karma then you say, “It’s the will of God.” But it’s not the will of God, you see. The law of karma is his will.

But it was your free will that was exercised incorrectly sometime, somewhere whereby the fruits of that decision are now come upon you.

I remember when the mayor of San Francisco said, “This is not our earthquake. This is God’s earthquake.” [responses] It is our earthquake. The earthquakes in the earth are a sudden balancing of karma of millions of people, not necessarily the people of San Francisco but, yes, necessarily some of them. That karma descends when there is no sense of penance or mitigation or doing good works or prayer for the balancing of past karma. Then things happen and people think it’s an act to, of, an act of God and they become very angry at God. They clench their fists. They shake them at God. They defy God. They are angry because God has done this or the next thing to them.

To me the missing link of karma and reincarnation causes much sin among the people and grave irresponsibility by not taking responsibility for what happens.

Other examples in the Old Testament of returning karma–this time upon an entire group of people–are the Babylonian and Assyrian invasions. The prophet Jeremiah, preaching in Judah (the Southern Kingdom of the Hebrews) in the seventh century B.C., said that the people of the Northern Kingdom of Israel had been taken to, into exile because of their faithlessness and worship of idols. He warned the people of Judah that if they did not turn wholeheartedly to God and repent of their idolatry, corruption and moral degeneracy–including their pagan practice of child sacrifice–they would meet the same fate.

The people did not change their ways and their karma descended. They we, they were deported to Babylonia and Jerusalem was destroyed.

Because we don’t so much think in terms of past lives, we think of those people way back then that this happened to, we have to always consider that we might have been among them. We might have ignored the prophet Isaiah. Therefore we don’t want to ignore the voice of God that is speaking to us in our hearts today.

The Bible also teaches us that through penance and obedience, individuals and nations can reap the results of their good karma. When Jonah warned the Ninevites that they would be destroyed in forty days because of their wicked ways, they renounced their evil behavior and prayed to God to spare them. These Ninevites were pagans. They didn’t even worship the Hebrew God.

The Book of Jonah says: “God relented: he did not inflict on them the disaster which he had threatened.”

God is always seeking to give us opportunity. In fact, he gives every one of us thousands of opportunities to relent of some nasty habit we have or some kind of pain we may be inflicting on someone. And over and over and over again we scrape our knee on the same situation, the same problem, the same argument with the same person. And unless we finally come around and decide we’re going to stop it here and now in the name of Jesus Christ and we call to God for help, one of these fine days that continuous harangue with this or that person, that continuous problem where we refuse to give is going to become a major descent of karma that will be a burden to us perhaps for the rest of our lives.

So this is the day to look ourselves over, the entire 360 degrees, look around at our lives and how we are to one another and to our neighbors and turn over a new leaf and make only good karma for the rest of our lives.

The Hebrew patriarch Abraham was obedient to God throughout his long life. Abraham followed God’s call to leave his native land and his father’s house to go to the land of Canaan. He was obedient even to the point of being willing to sacrifice his son Isaac.

I don’t think any one of us here today could have gone through what Abraham went through preparing the fire, tying Isaac to that fire, it, it was to a bullock, and to that point of killing his son when the angel interceded.

God rewarded Abraham with land and with wealth. He established his covenant with Abraham . God tested Abraham again and again and again and he promis ed him that he would be the progenitor of a great nation. His seed would be as the stars.

When the LORD asked Solomon what he would ask of the LORD , Solomon said: “Give thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad.” God was testing Solomon and he was pleased with his humble request.

Because Solomon was pure in heart and asked for something wu, that would make him a better servant of God, God blessed him abundantly. He granted the king not only “a wise and an understanding heart,” but “largeness of heart,” riches and honor. God also said he would give Solomon a long life if he would keep the commandments of God.

You know you can change your life by making commitments to God, by promising to serve him. You can lengthen your life.

Did you know when you came into this life and stood before the Lords of Karma (I’ll talk to you about the Lords of Karma in a little while), you received your assignment where would yu, you would go and what you would do? You were told your lifespan. You were told if you would sin, some sudden calamity and your life would be taken from you in an untimely way or you would have a dread disease or this or that and why. But you were also told that if you would serve God and move with zeal to balance that karma you could lengthen your life.

I’ve seen people according to the karmic record who have lengthened their lives by a decade, by fifteen, by twenty years because they so loved God and so served him.

So that shows that nothing is final and nothing is predestined. Someone dies and people say, “It was the will of God.” But we don’t believe in predestination. We believe in free will. God has free will and he gave us free will. We can change things. We can shorten our lives by eating very badly and just killing our body so we no longer have a temple. For sure we need reincarnation at that point–or we can lengthen them. And you can do that.

No matter who you are and how you’ve sinned or terrible you think you are and bad your karma is, you can start right now today and lengthen your life so that you have more days to serve your God and you get home with a prize.

There’s an interesting statement in a scripture connected with Solomon that according to many scholars alludes to the concept of karma and the pre-existence of souls. This reference is found in the apocryphal book called The Wisdom of Solomon , which is accepted as scripture by Roman Catholics but not Protestants. Pre-existence is not reincarnation per se. It is the belief that the soul has existed before its earthly conception.

The unknown author of The Wisdom of Solomon , who presents himself as Solomon, writes:

“I was, indeed, a child well-endowed, I had received a good soul as my lot; or rather, being noble I entered an undefiled body.”

This is clearly the concept that the soul pre-existed the body. Because the soul was a good soul, a soul being nobly endowed, the soul entered an undefiled body.

The same law of cause and effect and of free will that is taught in the Old Testament is affirmed by Jesus in his parables and in his warnings to the seed of the wicked.

The most amazing thing to me is how many Christians study the scriptures all of their lives and do not conclude that the law of karma is written in the Four Gospels and in the writings of the apostles. To me it shows that our clergy does not teach us what those scriptures really mean, does not point out the obvious that is right there sitting in front of us in black and white.

It’s not a question of mysteries. It’s not a question of some arcane interpretation. It’s the exact words that were spoken by Jesus and the apostles are giving us God’s law of karma.

Now we’ve talked about karma in the Old Testament. And Jesus said:

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. “

So Jesus came to fulfill the law of the Old Testament and it was the law of karma that he came to fulfill.

“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

The jot and the tittle that we all must pay that will not pass, the jot and tittle of the law, that is the law of karma. Jesus is stating it. We will pay every jot and tittle where we have violated the law of God until all is fulfilled.

If you want to be around f, here for a million years just ignore that, just ignore that entire teaching. If you want to get on with the universe, if you want to go o, beyond the stars and arrive at the next station of your evolution in realms of glory then pay your debts now and pay them quickly, pay them to everyone. Call up people and tell them you love them, tell them you’re sorry for something you ded or did or said to them ten years ago or thirty years ago. Set your life right with everyone. Bring joy to people.

In Matthew 12 Jesus lectures the scribes and Pharisees .

He says, “A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things [that is, good karma , good works]: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things”  [that means, bad works, bad karma].

It’s a description of how the intent of the heart is, how the soul is, so will the karma or the acts be.

A, here Jesus set forth, sets forth a karma that will not be broken. These are not the words of the Old Testament prophets and patriarchs. These are the words of our Lord:

“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

Did Jesus say, “But if you accept me as my Lord and Saviour I will neutralize this law”? Show me in the New Testament where Jesus says that this statement right here is neutralized. He never neutralized it. It is true to this very hour and this very day. We are accountable for every idle word we speak. We must control our tongues and our thoughts and feelings that propel them in an uncontrolled manner.

The Sermon on the Mount is a treasure trove of the law of karma. Jesus states the mathematical precision of the law of karma: “With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would do that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”

In fact, the entire sermon in Matthew 5 to 7 is Jesus’ doctrine on the rewards for righteous and unrighteous conduct , karma. The Sermon on the Mount is a sermon on karma. Go home and burn the midnight oil and read it tonight and read Jesus’ words with a new enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

It is his teaching on the consequences of thoughts, feelings, words and deeds. It’s the greatest lesson on karma, as the law of personal accountability for one’s acts, that you will find anywhere.

At the scene of his arrest Jesus reiterates the law of karmic retribution.

As the Book of Matthew records: “One of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him: ‘Put up again thy sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.'”

Jesus may have had compassion on the high priest’s servant but he also had compassion on his disciple. He put that ear back on and healed the man so that his disciple would not have the karma of having his ear cut off or some other karma for the event. Think of that. Not all of us have Jesus in the flesh with us to immediately undo our hasty acts.

Again in the Book of Revelation we read: “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity .”

If we enslave anyone to any habit, to any pernicious type of behavior we shall so be enslaved.

“He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”

Yes the saints have the faith and the patience to endure their karma, but the seed of the wicked do not have that patience, nor do they have the patience to balance their karma. And therefore they continue to sow evil unto the day of their final judgment. These are the fallen angels that continuously sow evil in our midst and show no sign of repentance.

In the apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians he makes clear the law of karma .  He learned that law of karma from Jesus and from life . The apostle Paul wrote :  Every maen,

“Every man shall bear his own burden.”

What is our burden? Our burden should be light, as Jesus said. “My burden is light,” because he had no karma. The only burden we carry around with us is a pack of troubles which is the karma we brought in this life. Jesus said, “Every man shall bear his own burden.” He didn’t say, “I will carry your karma for you.” Every man shall bear his own burden.

” Be not deceived; God is not mocked:  … whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. “

When you sow your crops in the springtime you’re sowing good seed. When you gather the harvest in the fall that is your good karma for having plowed the land, sowed the seed, tended it through the summer, understood agriculture and how to grow what you’re growing. And so your crop is commensurate with your carefulness. That is what we’re doing every day of our lives, except the harvest is not always in this life.

Sometimes we sow tomorrow morning what we reap today. It comes very quickly.

“[Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.] For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

We don’t weary in well doing because our well doing is balancing our bad doings of past lives. So we keep on serving, we keep on helping people, we keep on taking care of people, whatever is our job and our calling. We live to serve because we know the end of our karma will come. And that’s the means that God gave us and why we are so blessed to have this body today.

Paul concluded, “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men.”

Paul teaches Christ’s doctrine of the rewards for labor when he writes to the church at Corinth:

“Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”

The sacred fire of God does try us. It does purge us. Malachi prophesied the comining, the coming of the messengers, of the Messenger before Jesus Christ, coming with a refiner’s fire to purge the sons of Levi.

And who shall stand in the day of his coming, the scripture says? Shall we stand in the day when the fire descends to try our work or shall we s, be so filled with bad karma that that fire takes us out of this life? That’s what we have to contemplate at the end of the age.

Now I’d like to give you a teaching from Jesus in the New Testament on reincarnation.

“As Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who did sin, this man or his parents that he was born blind? ” Think now of the understanding that the disciples had in order to have been able to ask such a deep question.

“Jesus answered them, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”

The disciples knew the law of reincarnation and karma. They knew that this man could have been born blind from the sins of a past life. They also knew the Old Testament law that says, ” The sins of the father shall be visited upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.”

Jesus said it was neither of those situations. He hadn’t sinned. His parents hadn’t sinned, but he had come into embodiment born blind by his free will so that he could be healed by Jesus and that the works of God could be manifest in him and the glory of God could be revealed.

Now, if Jesus had desired us to know that the implication of this conversation on the part of the disciples was not accurate then and there he would have delivered a sermon denying karma and denying reincarnation, in other words, denying the premise of the question of his disciples, but he did not do so.

This teaches us that the discussions of reincarnation went on between Jesus and his disciples. The scriptures say that there were mo, so many things that Jesus said that the books of the world could not contain them. We know we do not have all of Jesus’ words.

Biblical commentators are at a loss to explain why the disciples would have even considered whether a man’s blindness from birth could be due to his own sin. We find in Jewish tradition that some rabbis discuss the possibility that a child could sin in his mother’s womb. But there is no

trace of these discussions until the third or the second or century–after Jesus’ time. Acknowledging that it is a puzzling question, Rudolf Bultmann, a leading twentieth-century New

Testament scholar, writes: “The reference can hardly be to sins committed in a pre-existent state, even though the idea of the pre-existence of souls had found its way into syncretistic and Hellenistic Judaism. Nor is it likely that a belief in the transmigration of souls is assumed here.

“However, the question perhaps is intended to pose an impossible alternative in order to show up the absurdity of the dogma [that the sins of parents could cause their child’s blindness].”

That’s the end of the commentators ‘ quote. I included it this evening so that you could see the absurdity of it, which is often typical of bibil, of Bible commentators. They don’t have a plausible explanation yet they refuse to even consider the possibility of pre-existence or reincarnation as implicit in this scene.

Then we have the next teaching of Jesus Christ on reincarnation.

The disciples were coming down the mountain with Jesus , down the Mount of Transfiguration.  On the mountain the disciples had seen Moses and Elias talking with Jesus. As you know Elias is the Greek name for the prophet Elijah.

When the disciples asked Jesus, “Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?” –if Elias is appearing to you out of heaven then how come he didn’t go before you as is prophesied that he would, what’s he doing in heaven? But Jesus said : “Elias truly shall first come and restore all things. And I say unto you he has already come , and they knew him not, but they have done to him whatsoever they listed ” and so will they also do to the Son of man.

“The disciples then understood that he  spoke  to them of John the Baptist.” Why did they understand it? Because they already knew the doctrine of reincarnation. They were part of the group of Christians known as the Essenes who believed in reincarnation.

So Jesus, when he said, “He’s already come,” he was simply saying he had already reincarnated and been beheaded by Herod.

It was a pupulr belied, it was a popular belief among the Jews of Jesus’ day that the prophet Elijah would come again as the forerunner of the Messiah, as the Lord had prophesied through the prophet Malachi:

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.”

The suggestion that the passage may infer a belief in reincarnation is not something new to this century.

The fourth-century Church Father Jerome, for example, specifically argues that the Matthew passage should not be interpreted as supporting reincarnation.

The fact that Jerome makes such an argument tells us th, that some Christians of his day believed that Jesus and the disciples accepted, or were at least aware of, the concept of reincarnation.

Here then I will give you the Christian Refutation of “Elias Come Again” : In his book Reincarnation and Christianity Dr. Robert Morey gives the standard orthodox Christian rationale for denying that the “Elias come again” passage speaks of reincarnation.

He says: “Elijah, like Enoch, never died but was translated to heaven without ever tasting death.” Apparently Dr. Morey believes that e, Enoch went into heaven in his physical body. I find that to be incomprehensible. But that is his premise.

Although Matthew just says that Moses and Elijah “appeared” to the disciples, Morey claims that e, “Elijah showed himself still alive and in his original body on the Mount of Transfiguration.”

I do not believe that Elijah was still alive and presented himself in that physical body on the Mount of Transfiguration. And I do not believe that the akashic records will show that.

According to Morey, when Jesus said that Elijah had “come already” as John the Baptist, “Jesus was simply saying that the ministry of John the Baptist was ‘in the spirit and power’ of Elijah’s ministry.”

(“In the spirit and power” of Elijah comes from Luke’s account of the angel who appeared to Zacharias and prophesied that John would “go before [the Messiah] in the spirit and power of Elias.”)

Some Christians say that Jesus was speaking figuratively and did not literally mean that Elijah was reincarnated as John the Baptist.

Professor George Buttrick writes that John had come “in striking likeness of the flesh and in verity of the spirit” of Elijah. “John, dressed like Elijah, lived in the desert as Elijah had lived, and defied Herod and Herodias as Elijah had defied Ahab and Jezebel.”

We see, then, that theologians go to a great extent to deny what is plainly written in scripture, what Jesus said, because they simply are not willing to come to grips with reincarnation. Why do they not want to come to grips with reincarnation? Because then they have to be accountable for their own actions and their own deeds. A large percentage of the people on earth today do not want to take responsibility for their karma. They prefer the doctrine where Jesus carries it all. “Jesus died for my sins. He is going to carry it all and I am going to get to heaven.”

It is a simplistic notion and I tell you from my heart and from the Sacred Heart of Jesus who has given to me this teaching by the Holy Spirit that the doctrine that Jesus pays the whole price and we pay nothing is not the true doctrine of Jesus Christ. It is the doctrine of Satan. It will deny you your victory if you continue to believe it, believing that you can do anything you want to do to anyone and Jesus will pay the price. It is not the law that Jesus taught.

There are other reasons why theologians do this and I will tell you when I come to that part of my lecture.

Now we come to Jesus ‘ words to Nicodemus: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

“Nicodemus saith unto him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

“Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

Jesus may be teaching reincarnation here, but he is also teaching the necessity for us to be reborn of the Spirit. Not reincarnation alone will save us but rebirth through the Holy Spirit through our Lord and Saviour. That new birth gives us that Holy Spirit, that oneness with our Lord, that bonding to his heart. That is the true birth, the new birth. And that is the true meaning of being born again, being born by water and being born by the Spirit.

And when we’re born of the Spirit truly, we are quickened. And all who have that spirit testify of Jesus and have his testimony in their hearts. And they no longer fear to know him.

Jesus Christ is the great Mediator between ourselves and God. We need no other mediator. We need no other intercessor. And all of the saints in heaven and all of the Ascended Masters attest to the fact that the Saviour is come and that he has delivered us through a path of works, a path of faith. He has delivered us so that we could return to the heart of God.

What happens to a person who goes through life and is never born again of the Spirit? Does God cast him into hell? Of course not. God lets him come back again and enter another mother’s womb (not his own mother’s womb again, as Nicodemus reasoned) and have another chance to seek rebirth by the Spirit. I think it’s happened, however, that the same mother has born a child that was lost, a second time.

We read from the book of Hebrews , which is one of the most mystical books of the New Testament along with Revelation, some Christians use the following verse from Hebrews to rebut reincarnation –you will see this heavily quoted and people getting very incensed in their discussion when they do quote it: “As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”

What does it mean that es appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment?

First of all I’d like to point out that the passage clearly does not say that it is appointed unto man once to live .

When understood in the proper historical context, we see that these verses are not intended as an argument against reincarnation.

Dr. Christopher Bache writes:

“When this verse is placed back into the context of the [times] of the letter [and the] themes, it becomes clear that the author is not intending to adjudicate between alternative theories of the afterlife. He is concerned instead to champion Christianity’s new covenant with God over the old Israelite covenant, which centered on the temple. The author of Hebrews is not arguing against reincarnation but against the Israelite temple-based religion.

“In this context, he mentions as an aside the common belief that men die once. Clearly, he does not espouse a reincarnationist world view, but neither can he be said to be arguing against reincarnation.”

Anglican priest Thomas Strong’s comment on the “once to die” passage is:

“The author had no eschatological intention to put reincarnation out of court. He was subject to the common but erroneous idea of his time that Christ’s return was near at hand. Questions of rebirth, et cetera, simply would not have occurred to him.”

In the King James Version of the Bible the verse reads: “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” Newer translations, which are considered to be more literal and accurate, leave out the word the before judgment .

In this life we do die once or seemingly we die once because in reality there is no death, but the passing of the body. Following our making our exit from this life we do receive a “judgment,” not the final judgment , as recorded in Revelation, but a judgment . We go before the Lords of Karma, we see in a moment our entire life, every thought, feeling, word and deed and act. We have remorse for what has been done wrong. We may rejoice in the positive aspects. And these wise counsellors who are our elder brothers and sisters who receive us point out how we have done. We ourselves assess that life. And we see whether we have to come back again or we can move again because we have had our victory.

There is the judgment then after each death. But Jesus has taught us that there is no death. Paul wrote: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

There is no one more certain that there is no death than the person that has just passed on. The soul simply rises from the body and moves on as the same soul that has been and will continue to be in God. The body may die many times over.  But the body is not life of the soul. Therefore the soul does not die.

What dies once and only once then is the human ego, that carnal mind that is enmity with God. Sometime, somewhere we must slay it by the power of Jesus Christ. And when we invite Jesus into our life and he does bind that corruptible self, it is dead and finally dead unless we should exercise free will to resurrect it again.

But that ego must die for us to put on our immortality. Jesus said, “This mortal must put on immortality. This corruptible must put on incorruption.”

That is our calling from God. When the ego dies and we attain perfect union with Christ after that there is the resurrection and the final judgment and we go out no more.

Until the unreal self dies and dies daily as Paul said: “I die daily,” we cannot be resurrected and we continue to embody until the final judgment.

But even if you do not think that the passages I have cited refer specifically to reincarnation, you can’t really say that the New Testament condemns reincarnation.

In interpreting all scripture we need to remember the words of Origen of Alexandria (the most influential theologian of the Greek Church). He taught in the third century.  He said the scriptures “have two senses, the literal and the hidden, whereof the latter can be known only to those to whom is given the grace of the Holy Spirit in the word of wisdom and knowledge.”

These words are so true. How can we commune with God if we have not the Holy Spirit, if we ha, have not made peace with his son? When we have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is not only our comforter but our teacher. Then we know because we are known of God and we feel that presence of the Spirit in us. And yet we try the spirits to see whether they are of God, the lesser spirits and lesser voices who come to tempt us.

When you seek and have the Holy Spirit you will remember Jesus’ words,

“when they come saying, ‘Look the kingdom is here, the kingdom is there,’ go not, for the kingdom of God is within you.”

You will need no one else to tell you what is that kingdom, because within you you will know it.

Jesus told me that the word kingdom means consciousness. “Look for the consciousness of God is within you.” That interpretation fulfills Jesus’ words spoken by Paul.

“Let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” And Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.”

There is no fear in doctrine for the divine doctrine of God is only love. And karma and reincarnation is the fulfilling of God’s doctrine of love for you, very personally and very intimately.

Where is the ultimate proof of reincarnation , besides in the Holy Spirit in your heart? It’s the living Bible written in the sand , in the eesers, in the ethers, in the sea, in the marrow of your bones and in your inward parts.  This record, called akasha, reveals in the aura of the individual past life upon past life upon past life.

When Mary Magdalene was condemned Jesus wrote in the sand. He wrote the sins of those who condemned her of this life and previous lives. And finally said, “He that is without karma, let him first cast the stone.” And they all removed themselves.

Many times I’ve stood in the aura of someone and had an instantaneous awareness , by the Holy Spirit, of that person’s past life.

If you do not have the Holy Spirit, you can neither confirm nor deny scripture or its interpretation. Think about that. All of the arguing of doctrine and interpretation is for naught. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines us.

Those who attempt to interpret the scriptures intellectually or emotionally or on the basis of a doctrine that has been handed down to them have not drunk of the fount of living waters. They have not drunk the blood or eaten the flesh of Jesus Christ.Therefore they have no life in them

Do you remember that scene when so many disciples left Jesus? He said, “Except ye eat the flesh and drink the blood of the son of Man ye have no life in you.” He didn’t mean just the communion cup and wafer.

He meant my essence, all of me, all that I am, all that I have been through, my consciousness, my life, the persecution and the glory.

If you do not eat this and assimilate it, if you do not become me, if you do not realize the Christ that I AM where you are you will have no life in you.

Dozens of disciples walked out when he said that. That’s when he said to the rest, “Will you also leave me?” And that’s when they said, “Where shall we go, Lord? Thou hast the Word of eternal Life.” They were ready to eat the flesh and drink the blood in the spiritual sense in which he gave the teaching.

Those who are not willing to do this because they’ve been taught that pleasure is good and suffering is bad, those who cannot and will not suffer, they cannot impart life to the scriptures . They cannot unveil the mysteries of the kingdom no matter what their degrees or the positions of power in Church and state.

They cannot tell you what God has already written on your inward parts.

The foundation of our belief must be the soul’s direct communion with God through the only mediator that is lawful, the Divine Mediator Jesus Christ .

God has created one Lord and one Christ. Jesus gave us the teaching of the mystery of this Christ in serving communion to us. He took the whole loaf, one single loaf of bread symbolizing the one Christ and he broke it. And he said, “This is my body which is broken for you.” And what he meant was that God is breaking this one bread, this one presence of the Christ that I AM, this Light.

Christos means anointed in Greek–this anointed Light and giving to you that crumb, that communion. And by partaking of this that Christ is quickened in you.

One times one times one times one still equals one Christ, Jesus Christ. Jesus the incarnator of the Christ and the Word came to show us how to be the embodiment of that same Light–the Light that we lost when we originally disobeyed God tens of thousands of years ago, leaving that paradise and going out into the law of karma, the laws of mortality governing existence.

So that Holy Christ Self of you is that portion of this one Universal Christ of which Jesus is the great, great example. He is that glorious Christ, greater than all of us and yet he holds the standard of his life as a life that we too can live. And he promised us that. He said, “He that believeth on me, the Christ that I AM, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my Father.”

Jesus doesn’t want you to consider yourself as a miserable sinner. You can talk about yourself as having made some negative karma and also some positive karma. You can talk about yourself as a son or daughter of God who knows that you have sinned. But that doesn’t make you an eternal sinner. That means you’ve made mistakes and God has given you the opportunity to correct them. And when you go to the altar and ask God for forgiveness and take communion and he forgives you, and he does, then hold your head high and say, “I am a son of God. And I will be not taunted and tempted by the demons who continually condemn me because I did this terrible thing forty years ago” and you’ve condemned yourself ever since.

Remember God does not condemn you. God didn’t send Jesus into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him would have eternal Life. So who condemns you? Devils, demons, low orders of spirits–they condemn you so that you will never rise again.

You have to outsmart them and tell them, “Jesus Christ and my Lord, my God, have forgiven me. I accept my forgiveness. You can no longer condemn me because I have accepted that forgiveness and now I am willing to pay the price. I am going to make good for my wrongs. I am going to pay my debts to God and society and people I know. And I am going to move on in the cycles of being.”

Will you do that? [“Yes!”] Let’s hear it louder. [“Yes!!”] Good. Now the devils will flee from you. [laughter]

Those who have a real and living attunement with God the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Divine Mother know that life is a continuum. They know they were born in the heart of God in the Great Central Sun and to the heart of God in the Great Central Sun they will return. And they know that in between, over hundreds of thousands of years, they’ve been reincarnating because they left the original mystery school , the Garden of Eden. They left the Guru of that Garden who was Lord Maitreya, and now they need to balance that karma of disobedience to the Guru who said of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat.

And who was the serpent but the fallen angels, the false prophets and false teachers who are the fallen angels, come to tempt you and your twin flame away from that original teacher.

And so by disobedience to that command not just Adam and Eve but many, many, many souls who were there as twin flames partook of that knowledge of Good and Evil. And what did it give them? It gave them the knowledge of their mortality, the knowledge of their procreation as mortals. And therefore they descended in consciousness and could not, no longer be in that place where they could learn the laws of God without descending into mortality.

We all have a sense of having lost something great, some paradise. And it’s there waiting for us in higher octaves. Those octaves of heaven are called the etheric plane. You may journey there while your body sleeps at night. You may study in mystery schools where Ascended Masters and angels preside today.

And you come back with a certain awareness and that’s why you are seekers. You have received such glory and teaching from God while your body sleeps at night that you’re no longer satisfied with the husks that you receive in orthodoxy. So you want to know more and you want to study more because God has quickened your soul and God has told you in these inner temples of Light that you need to get on with your path in this life. You need to balance your karma. You have things to do. And so you have a sense of zeal in pursuing the teachings that will lead you to be able to accomplish your divine plan.

By tracing every footstep of our karmic sowings until by the grace of Jesus Christ and our application of good works (and invocation of the sacred fire) we can arrive at the Great White Throne of the LORD Sanat Kumara, to go out nevermore.

This is why the doctrine of karma and reincarnation is so exciting, because it leads to liberty and our souls’ complete liberation and union with God.

Would you like to stretch a moment? I am going to continue, but you might want to stand a moment. [Messenger gives instructions to A.V. personnel.]

Let us take out these booklets that I’ve given to you this evening. There’s a wonderful song to Mother Mary, the mother of Jesus, who gives us such a tremendous assistance when we call to her. It’s on page 39, the end of the booklet, and it’s a song that we sing to the “Ave Maria.”

As you sing this song you can pour out your heart to Mother Mary and commune with her. You can pray while we are singing. Page 39.

* [Song 96, “Immaculate Mary,” sung with tape of “‘Watch With Me’ Jesus’ Vigil of the Hours” p. 39.]

Thank you, please be seated.

We do not worship the saints or the Ascended Masters. We revere them. We respect them. We love them. We acknowledge the light and attainment that they have. We see them as our elder brothers and sisters, as our teachers and we are grateful for their sponsorship. There is a profound love we have for Mother Mary. But we worship one God. We think of the doctrine of Ikhnaton, the sun God, Aton, with many rays extending from that sun. He had them painted ended in hands, each one of us a ray of the sun, the hand symbolizing that we are God in action.

We are grateful for all the rays of God. But we are not idolaters and first and foremost we don’t make an idol of ourselves.

Let’s get on then with the part of the lecture on Christianity because the crux of the whole matter is upon the Christian dispensation that we are either born into or have all around us in our culture.

Some Christians say that because the Bible doesn’t include comprehensive teaching on reincarnation that Christians should not believe in it. First of all, if you followed that rationale, Christians wouldn’t believe in the Trinity either. You don’t find that doctrine in the Bible.

Second of all, just because the New Testament doesn’t contain comprehensive teaching on reincarnation doesn’t mean that Jesus didn’t teach it! Not all of the original teachings of Jesus have survived.

How do we know there are lost teachings? The clues begin in the New Testament itself. Only a small number of verses record Jesus’ teachings. For example, Acts says that following the resurrection Jesus taught his disciples for forty days of “things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” There is no record of what he said.

Jesus didn’t leave us a record but he promised us another comferta, that the Comforter would come and teach us all things. There’s no limit to that promise. The Comforter who is the Holy Spirit can teach you all things as Jesus said, whatsoever I have taught you. “He will bring to your remembrance whatsoever I have taught you.” That means forever.

Whatever Jesus has taught us in all eternity of our oneness with him the Holy Spirit can bring to us.

John closes his gospel, John closes his gospel with the words:

“There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.”

In addition to his Palestinian mission, there is evidence that Jesus spent at least several years on earth after the resurrection. The second-century Church Father Irenaeus wrote that Jesus taught until he was forty or fifty years old. The third-century Gnostic text Pistis Sophia records that after the resurrection, Jesus “passed eleven years discoursing with his disciples.”

Jesus intentionally kept some teaching from the masses. The Gospel of Mark says that Jesus taught the multitudes in parables but that he “expounded all things to his disciples” when they were alone. A fragment of a Secret Gospel of Mark discovered in 1958 at Mar Saba, a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Judean desert, provides evidence of these secret teachings.

The Church Father Clement of Alexandria quoted this secret gospel in a letter and called it “a more spiritual Gospel read only to those who are being initiated into the great mysteries.”

So now we hear that Clement of Alexandria understood and took for granted that there is a spiritual path which when one enters it he is initiated into certain Christian mysteries. By whom? By Jesus Christ, of course. There is a path of initiation that you can walk today as a disciple of Jesus Christ and receive direct initiation from him.

Clement acknowledges elsewhere in his writings that Jesus revealed secret teaching to those who were “capable of receiving it and being molded by it.” That’s a very important part of this teaching; because, you see, if God showers upon us all kinds of teachings and mysteries and we say, “Oh, that’s interesting” and we receive them intellectually, or we say, “That’s wonderful, wonderful,” and we get ecstatic emotionally but we don’t allow ourselves to be re-created by God, to be remade in his image and likeness, to be broken, we don’t allow ourselves to cast ourselves upon the Rock and be broken by Christ that the soul might appear, then God isn’t going to teach us his mysteries.

God gives his mysteries to those who, when they receive them, allow themselves to be transformed by them, who will assimilate a mystery, who will eat it up, who will drink it, who will become it, who will be changed. In other words, those who accept the alchemy of Jesus Christ are given the mysteries.

Clement, who lived in the second and third centuries, indicates that he possesses this secret tradition, which was handed down through the apostles and the other Seventy. He possessed it.

Some of Jesus’ teachings also may have been lost unintentionally through scribal errors in the process of copying and recopying the Bible.

Today we possess thousands of New Testament manuscripts. These manuscripts differ from each other in 250,000 ways! So what did Jesus really say? We will ever know? We will know it in our hearts because the Holy Spirit will reveal it to us and we will know it because what he said is written in akasha. It is on the ethers. And some day we will hear him speaking as he spoke then. Just like we hear ourselves on a tape recorder today, we will hear that recording of what Jesus taught us.

“Heaven and earth may pass away but my word will not pass away.” That’s his promise to you. Nothing is lost.

Professor Merrill M. Parvis says: “It is safe to say that there is not one sentence in the New Testament in which the manuscript tradition is wholly uniform.” There is also reason to believe that the scriptures have been deliberately edited for doctrinal purposes.

One piece of evidence is Codex Sinaiticus, written about 340 A.D. It is one of the oldest existing copies of the Bible, but it was not available to early translators. Codex Sinaiticus differs from the canonical text that has come down to us today.

For instance, in our Bibles in the first chapter of Mark’s Gospel we read that a leper says to Jesus:

“If you will, you can make me clean.” “If you will, you can make me clean.” Codex Sinaiticus continues: Jesus, “angry, stretched out his hand and touched him and said, ‘I will; be clean.'”

In later manuscripts the word “angry” was changed to “moved with compassion.” [responses] Evidently someone could not accept that Jesus could become angry. Why would Jesus be angry at a leper? Maybe he’s angry at him for what he did in a past life which was his karma that made him a leper. Or maybe the leper had demons who spoke to Jesus through him and dared Jesus to heal him. “If you will, you can heal me.” He could have said it in a, a type of a challenging way.

Whatever provoked the sacred fire of Jesus’ wrath, nevertheless he did heal him.

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Karma, Reincarnation & Christianity – Part 2 of Full Lecture Oct 11, 1991

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LECTURE: “Karma, Reincarnation and Christianity”. This is Part No. 2 of a Two Part, Four Hour lecture given by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Friday, October 11, 1991, during the four-day Class of the Golden Cycle held at the New Orleans Airport Hilton.

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What is Karma and What is Reincarnation?

[Sanskrit karman, nominative karma, “act,” “deed,” “work”] Energy/consciousness in action; the law of cause and effect and retribution. Also called the law of the circle, which decrees that whatever we do comes full circle to our doorstep for resolution.

Paul said, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Newton observed, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

The law of karma necessitates the soul’s reincarnation until all karmic cycles are balanced. Thus, from lifetime to lifetime man determines his fate by his actions, including his thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds.

Origin

Karma is God’s energy in action. Originating in the Mind of God, energy—action-reaction-interaction—is the Trinity of the Logos. The creative forcefield of the Mind of God is the source of karma.

The word karma has been used both broadly and narrowly through the centuries to define man’s ever-evolving concepts of causation, of Cosmic Law and his relationship to that Law. The ancient origins of the word are an energy key governing the flow from Spirit to Matter. Karma, according to the ascended masters, is taken from the Lemurian root meaning “the Cause of the Ray in Manifestation”—hence “Ka-Ra-Ma.”

Karma is God—God as Law; God as principle; God as the will, the wisdom and the love of Spirit becoming Matter. The law of karma is the Law of being, being always in the state of becoming—the movement of the Self transcending the Self.

Karma is the law of cycles, the moving out and the moving in through the spheres of God’s own cosmic consciousness—the breathing out and the breathing in of the LORD.

Throughout the seven spheres of the Spirit-Matter cosmos, karma is the law of creation, the antahkarana of the creation. It is the integration of energy flow between the Creator and the creation. Karma is causes becoming effects, effects becoming causes—which in turn become effects. Karma is the great chain of hierarchy, link by link transferring the energies of Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending of cycles.

Karma as opportunity

When people talk about karma, they often think of the wrath of God, of punishment, of the idea that if they have been bad before they’re going to have to suffer now. This is one more ramification of the teachings of hell-fire and damnation, the concepts that have been propounded by Lucifer to thwart the true Christian doctrine.

Karma is not punishment. Karma returning to us is simply the law of cause and effect—for every wrong that we have done we must anticipate a joyous opportunity in the future to undo that wrong. And we have to seize that opportunity with rejoicing because here is a chance to balance our debts to Life.

Returning karma is the glorious opportunity for us to be free, for us to learn the law of non-attachment, non-possessiveness, and to realize the effects of the causes we have sent out. It is altogether natural and proper that we should be able to be on the receiving end of whatever we’ve sent out. If we have sent out love, we have a right to know what it feels like to receive that love in return, and if we have sown hatred or sadness, that’s going to come back also. And when it comes back we shouldn’t have any sense that this is unjust.

Unfortunately, many see the Law of God as a law of disaffection and disavowal. They envision a God who has no use for us but is simply the Lawgiver who stands ready to strike mankind with a rod of punishment. But God does not deal our karma to us as punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life.

Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day’s coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. We should understand, then, that the Law that comes to us is the Law of love. When it becomes chastening, it is the chastening of love. When it becomes the fruit in our life of our own advancement, this is the fruit of that love.

Transmutation of karma

Saint Germain teaches the accelerated path of transmutation of karma by the violet flame of the Holy Spirit and the transcending of the rounds of rebirth through the path of individual Christhood leading to the ascension demonstrated by Jesus.

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