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The Ninth Lesson: The Inner Teachings.1049
The Ninth Lesson: The Inner Teachings.
T
he first and main phase of the Inner Teachings of Mystic Christianity is
that connected with the Mystery of the Life of Jesus. The outer teachings
give but an imperfect view of the real life and nature of the Master, and
theologians have built up an edifice of dogmatic theory around the same.
The Mystery of the Life of Jesus forms the subject of some important
Inner Teachings of the Mystic Fraternities and Occult Brotherhoods, and is
considered by them to be the foundation of the other teachings. And so we
shall consider this phase of the subject at this point.
In the first place we must remember that the soul of Jesus was different
from the souls of other men. His was a “virgin birth”—not in the commonly
accepted sense of the term, but in the occult sense as explained in the
second lesson of this series. His soul was fresh from the hand of the Creator—
His spirit had not been compelled to work through repeated incarnations,
pressing forward for expression through humble and ignoble forms. It was
free from taint, and as pure as the Fountain from which is flowed. It was a
virgin soul in every sense of the term.
This being so, it follows that it was not bound by the Karma of previous
incarnations—as is the case with the ordinary soul. It had no entangling
ties—it had no seeds of desire and action planted in previous lives, which