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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 181
QUESTION No. 90.
I understood you to say that the Christ has been incar-
nated only once in Jesus; was he not previously incarnated
in Gautama Buddha and still earlier in Krishna?
Answer: No. Jesus Himself was a spirit belonging to
our human evolution, and so was Gautama Buddha. The
writer has no information concerning Krishna, but is in-
clined to believe that he was also a spirit belonging to the
human race, because the Indian stories concerning him tell
of how he entered heaven and what took place there. The
Christ spirit which entered the body of Jesus when Jesus
himself vacated it, was a ray from the cosmic Christ. We
may follow Jesus back in his previous incarnations, and we
can trace his growth to the present day. The Christ spirit,
on the contrary,. is not to be found among our human spirits
at all.
We may say that before the coming of Christ, He worked
upon the earth from the outside, much as the group spirit
works with the animals from without, guiding and helping
them, until they become sufficiently individualized to be
trie abode of an individual spirit. There was no indwell-
ing spirit in the earth prior to the coming of Christ, but
at the time when the sacrifice upon Golgotha had been consummated
and the Christ spirit was liberated from the body
of Jesus, it drew into the earth and is now the indwelling
Earth Spirit, which Paul says "is groaning and travailing,
waiting for the day of liberation," for, contrary to the accepted
opinion, the sacrifice upon Golgotha was not completed
with the death of the body of Jesus; in fact, that
event may be said to be only the beginning; the sacrifice