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what the Great Law is and how it works, as it is so wonderfully summed up by Jesus in this section, is in a position to take the next great step and understand how it is possible to rise above even the Great Law itself, in the name of THE CHRIST. In the Bible the term “Christ” is not identical with Jesus, the individual. It is a technical term which may be briefly defined as the Absolute Spiritual Truth about anything. Now, to know this Truth about any person, or condition, or circumstance, immediately heals that person, or condition, or circumstance, to the extent that such Truth is realized by the thinker. This is the essence of spiritual healing, and thus we see that in the widest sense, and altogether independently of the special and unparalleled work that was done for us by Jesus himself, it is true that the Christ comes into the world to redeem it and save it. Whenever the Christ (that is the True Idea concerning anything) is raised up in thought by anyone, healing follows—physical healing, or moral healing, or even intellectual healing, as the case may be.

Intellectual healing would be to make a dull or stupid person bright and intelligent. Backward school children respond like magic to such treatment. One should claim Divine Intelligence for them and realize that God is the soul of man. Sickness and sin, poverty and confusion, weakness of character, all disappear under the power of the Healing Christ. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, the realization by somebody of the Christ, or the Spiritual Truth behind the appearance, will heal it. There is no exception whatever to this. Because the Christ is nothing less than the direct action of God Himself, the Self-knowing of Spirit, it overrides all else.

The higher law of Spirit overrides or supersedes all the lower laws of the physical and mental planes. This, as we saw in the first chapter, does not mean that the laws of the physical or mental planes are broken. It means that man, because of his essential Divine Self-hood, has the power of rising above these domains into the infinite dimension of Spirit where such laws no longer affect him. He has not broken their laws, but has adventured beyond them. A very inadequate simile may be cited in the case of the balloon which rushes away from the ground seemingly in defiance of the law of gravity, as soon as the bag is inflated. Here it seems as if the law of gravity were broken, but of course it is not broken, but rather, completely fulfilled by such action; yet the normal experience of ordinary life actually is reversed. Now the Law of Karma, which is no respecter of persons, and forgets nothing, is actually law for matter and mind only; it is not law for Spirit. In Spirit all is perfect and eternal, unchanging good. Here there is no bad Karma to be reaped, because none can be sown, and thus when man, by what we call prayer, meditation, or treatment, transfers his attention to the domain of Spirit, he comes—to that extent—under the law of perfect Good, and Karma is wiped out.

So man has the choice of Karma or Christ. This is the best news that has ever come to mankind, and for that reason it is called the good news, or the glad tidings, or the Gospel, for such is the meaning of this word. This is man’s charter of freedom, his dominion over all things as the Image and Likeness of God. He has his choice. He can remain in the limited region of matter and mind, in which case he is bound fast on the wheel of Karma; or, he can appeal, through prayer, to the Realm of Spirit—that is, the Christ—and be free But he has the choice—Christ or Karma; and CHRIST IS LORD OF KARMA.

In the East where Karma is so well understood, they are without the Christian message of the Christ, and they therefore find themselves in a rather hopeless position. We, however, who rightly understand the Gospel of the Christ, can be free. In other words, Karma turns out to be inexorable only so long as you do not pray. As soon as you pray, you begin to rise above Karma; that is to say, you begin to wipe out the unpleasant consequences