Karma - Part 1

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READING 262-36 PARAPHRASED

(Q) What does it mean that “He with the cross” represents something every soul experiences, and that all paths of thought and truth eventually lead to the cross?

(A) From the beginning, Christ was the Son—yet He became the Son by entering fully into the condition of all souls who had strayed. Through many lifetimes and experiences, He met every challenge of the world and bore the weight of those experiences as a “cross.” By fully living through suffering, effort, and consequence, He overcame the world. At the final point, with complete knowledge and power gained through experience, He willingly accepted the ultimate Cross.

By doing so, He brought to completion what people often call karma—the necessity that every action must be paid for through suffering. The law of cause and effect still exists in physical, mental, and spiritual life, but Christ transcended it. In overcoming the law, He became greater than it; He fulfilled it. The law then becomes a teacher rather than a judge.

Those who align themselves with Him are no longer bound by the law as punishment, but live under mercy. In Him, all desires and forces can be brought into harmony.

This pattern exists within each person. The “mount” represents the whole self—physical, mental, and spiritual. When these parts are in harmony, everything works toward good. When rebellion or imbalance arises, coordination is lost, leading to disorder, decay, and even death.

Christ established inner harmony as the true throne—the mercy seat within the inner temple. This becomes the model for the soul’s return: “I will arise and go to my Father.” This return happens through conscious will, alignment, and choice.

READING 262-36 EXPLAINED

This reading explains karma as a basic rule of life: what you do has results. Every action, thought, and choice leads to consequences. This doesn’t just affect what happens in the physical world, but also your mind and your inner, spiritual life. This idea is called the law of cause and effect, and it means nothing you do is meaningless—everything shapes who you become.

Instead of avoiding this law, Christ fully lived it. He experienced life the way humans do, including struggle, pain, and responsibility for choices. He didn’t get a free pass. He learned and grew through real experiences. The “cross” is a symbol for all the weight people carry in life—the hard lessons, the consequences of actions, and the challenges that come with being human.

The reading says Christ didn’t cancel the law of cause and effect. Instead, He completed it. By fully understanding and mastering it, He was no longer controlled by it. Because of this, karma stops being something that traps or punishes people and becomes more like a teacher—something that helps you learn and grow instead of holding you back.

For people who try to live in the same spirit Christ did, life isn’t about paying for mistakes through suffering. Growth comes through mercy, understanding, and learning how to live in balance. This doesn’t mean actions don’t matter anymore—it means mistakes are used to help you grow, not to destroy you.

The reading also talks about the “mount,” which represents the whole person: your body, your thoughts, and your spirit. When these parts work together, life feels more peaceful and meaningful. When they’re out of sync—like when your actions don’t match your values—things start to fall apart. Suffering, in this sense, isn’t a punishment from God but a result of being out of balance with yourself.

In the end, the message is about choice. Growth and freedom don’t just happen automatically. You have to decide to move toward what’s right, to realign yourself, and to return to unity and wholeness. That’s what the line “I will arise and go to my Father” means—it’s a personal decision to change and grow.

Simply put, this reading teaches that karma is real, but it isn’t meant to trap you forever. Christ fully experienced it and showed a way beyond it. That way is learning from life, choosing love over fear, and bringing your thoughts, actions, and spirit into balance. Karma doesn’t end by running away from life—it ends by understanding it and growing through it.

ORIGINAL READING 262-36

(Q) Please explain, "He with the cross, represents something in the experience of every entity in their activities through the earth and has led in all the experiences of thought in any of the presented forms of truth in the earth and comes at last to the cross."

(A) As we have given, and as was given by Him, in the beginning He was the Son - MADE the Son - those of the Sons that went astray; and through the varying activities overcame the world through the EXPERIENCES, BEARING the cross in each and every experience, reaching the FINAL cross with ALL power, ALL knowledge in having overcome the world - and of Himself ACCEPTED the Cross. Hence doing away with that often termed karma, that must be met by all. The immutable law of cause and effect is, as evidenced in the world today, in the material, the mental and the spiritual world; but He - in overcoming the world, the law - became the Law. The law, then, becomes as the schoolmaster, or the school of training - and we who have NAMED the Name, then, are no longer UNDER the law as law, but under mercy as in Him; for in Him - and with the desires - may there be made the COORDINATION of all things.

Remember the pattern in the mount, in self, in the physical body, in the mental body, in the spiritual body. THAT is the mount! So long as there is perfect coordination in the mount, all things work together for the GOOD of the mount. When there is the rebellion in the mount, then there is disconnection, destruction, disconcerted effort, and the coordination - the cooperation of activity - is made awry. Hence death in the physical ensues, by the disintegration, through the disconcerted action, through the INCOORDINATED action and this mental, and physical, and spiritual.

So, in overcoming all He set that as the Throne, or the mercy seat, that is within the temple, as the pattern, as in the mount - and in the mount, "I WILL arise and go to my Father, in Him, through Him. I WILL! I WILL!