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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1050
were pressing forward toward expression in His life. He was a Free Spirit—
an Unbound Soul. And therefore He was not only unbound by any Karma
of His own, but was also free (by nature) from the Karma of the race or of
the world.
The absence of personal Karma left Him free from the selfish personal
Desire which binds men to the wheel of action and personal ambition. He
had no desire or thought for personal aggrandizement or glory, and was
perfectly free (by nature) to work for the good of the race as an outside
observer and helper, without suffering the pains and sorrows of race-life,
had He so wished. But He chose otherwise, as we shall see in a moment.
The absence of Race-Karma, or World-Karma, freed Him from the
necessity of the pains of humanity, which are a part of its collective Karma.
He would have been perfectly able to live a life absolutely free from the
pains, trials and troubles that are the common lot of Man, owing to the
Race-Karma. He would have escaped persecution, physical and mental
pains, and even death, had He so elected. But He chose these things of His
own free will, in order to accomplish the great work that He saw before Him
as a World-Savior.
In order for Jesus to enact His part as the Redeemer and Savior of the
race, it was necessary for Him to take upon Himself His share of the Karma
of the race—virtually taking upon Himself the “sins of the world.” Before He
could lift the burden from the race of men, He must become a man among
men.
To understand this more clearly we must remember that to a being such as
Jesus—a soul free from Karma—there would be no such thing as temptation,
longings, desires, or any of the mental states of the ordinary man with the
Karma of successive past incarnations resting within him as seeds of action
pressing forward ever for unfoldment and expression.
Jesus, the free soul, would have been practically an outside observer of the
world’s affairs, and not influenced by any of its ordinary incentives to action.
In this state He could have aided the world as a teacher and instructor, but