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However, the misinterpretation of this teaching has resulted in people ignoring the law of karma. The fallen ones have distorted the law of karma and distorted this concept of the Saviour taking on the sins of the world to mean that people need only confess their sins, and they can have salvation. | However, the misinterpretation of this teaching has resulted in people ignoring the law of karma. The fallen ones have distorted the law of karma and distorted this concept of the Saviour taking on the sins of the world to mean that people need only confess their sins, and they can have salvation. | ||
The karma that Jesus took upon himself is the original karma involving | The karma that Jesus took upon himself is the original karma involving the fall of [[Lemuria]] through disobedience to the Law of God and the lowering of the energies in misuse of the sacred fire. Jesus did not take upon himself all future misdeeds of the race. He took upon himself that basic karma of [[Fall of man|the Fall]], or the descent of consciousness, so that people could, in effect, from the point of grace that he had attained to and on the momentum of his consciousness, return to the state of grace in order to balance the karma of their [[electronic belt]]s and thereby bring themselves to the place where they could bear the karma of their fall. And when they get to the place of bearing the karma of their fall, they are at the place of meeting their own [[dweller-on-the-threshold]] and the totality of the spirals that occurred through the Fall—the negative spirals of the fall of consciousness from the upper chakras to the lower chakras. | ||
There is a difference between balancing the karma of day-to-day sins and the balancing of the karma of the original Fall. Since we have to function from the level of the consciousness of the planet, which is in the state of this fallen consciousness, we are functioning in a certain plane that almost of necessity involves sin on a day-to-day basis. Since that is a way of life on the planet, the masters have developed a code of ethics by which people may live until they evolve out of this state of consciousness.<ref>The code of ethics established by the Brotherhood has been conveyed through such statements as the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount and the [[Eightfold Path]]. These codes have varied in some ways in different eras, depending on the consciousness of the people. For example the Ten Commandments are a list of prohibited behavior (avoiding making negative karma); the Sermon on the Mount adds to this and reframes standards in positive form (things to be done to balance karma and make good karma). However, the statement of the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is found in some form in all religions and is the basis for all of these codes. It also contains within it a clear understanding of the law of karma. Unfortunately, men have often added to or taken away from the Brotherhood’s code of ethics. An example of the former is the excessive legalism of some Jewish sects. The latter is seen in the repudiation of many of the moral and ethical standards of the Brotherhood’s code by Western society in recent decades.—Ed.</ref> People will be dealing with karma until they can come to grips with the mastery of the sacred fire. | There is a difference between balancing the karma of day-to-day sins and the balancing of the karma of the original Fall. Since we have to function from the level of the consciousness of the planet, which is in the state of this fallen consciousness, we are functioning in a certain plane that almost of necessity involves sin on a day-to-day basis. Since that is a way of life on the planet, the masters have developed a code of ethics by which people may live until they evolve out of this state of consciousness.<ref>The code of ethics established by the Brotherhood has been conveyed through such statements as the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount and the [[Eightfold Path]]. These codes have varied in some ways in different eras, depending on the consciousness of the people. For example the Ten Commandments are a list of prohibited behavior (avoiding making negative karma); the Sermon on the Mount adds to this and reframes standards in positive form (things to be done to balance karma and make good karma). However, the statement of the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is found in some form in all religions and is the basis for all of these codes. It also contains within it a clear understanding of the law of karma. Unfortunately, men have often added to or taken away from the Brotherhood’s code of ethics. An example of the former is the excessive legalism of some Jewish sects. The latter is seen in the repudiation of many of the moral and ethical standards of the Brotherhood’s code by Western society in recent decades.—Ed.</ref> People will be dealing with karma until they can come to grips with the mastery of the sacred fire. | ||
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