The former United States president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was, according to Joe Biden, "a man of principle, faith and humility." Indeed, Jimmy Carter was renown for his goodwill and kindness, and such generosity cannot be taken for granted; it is often hard-earned and well-deserved. Or, as Goethe says, a Faustian soul requires evil to be transformed into good. Carter appears to have been Emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD. His life then, says El Ochre, was a karmic crisis and his disturbed mind the result of several vainglorious past lives, including that of Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser III, the great military expansionist in the fertile Levant during the mid 8th century BCE: “Caligula’s madness was the karmic consequence of too many lives spent at the pursuit of power. His fractured soul returned in many lifetimes of impotence, poverty, slavery and the like, before it was ready to risk the reigns of power again. As Jimmy Carter he expiated his karmic debts.” (El Aurenx, Esoteric Biographies, 1997–2001) Carter's great achievement was his mediation of the historic peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in 1979. As an ironic twist of karma, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin had been Harsaast and Menahem, then kings of Egypt and Israel respectively, whose people suffered under Tiglath's brutal conquests, merciless slaughters and forced resettlements, c.732 BCE. His karmic biography continues: "In the 8th century BCE, Assyria's King Tiglath-Pileser III invaded Israel, and Israel’s King Menahem appealed to Egypt for aid. Egypt’s King Harsaast sent envoys to Tiglath, and tactfully negotiated him into a pledge that he would withdraw from Israel upon payment of tribute. Harsaast advised Menahem to comply with Tiglath’s demand, and undertook to contribute a share of the tribute sum. Harsaast’s generosity was unpopular with certain conservatives in Egypt, and he was assassinated. Menahem was then compelled to tax Israel heavily to raise the tribute. Tiglath duly withdrew as agreed, but later invaded again and deported the population. In this manner he vanquished a large territory, expanding his empire and scattering the conquered peoples. He erected monuments boasting of his exploits and depicting scenes of cruelty in which he obviously delighted — the merciless slaughter and impalement of people. Compensation for all this had to be made in his life of service as Jimmy Carter." (El Aurenx, 2001) As president, Sadat became an eminent peacemaker. Despite the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, in which Israel was victorious over Egypt, Sadat initiated talks with Begin. The talks were chaired by President Carter at Camp David in 1978. Sadat was the first Arab leader to recognize Israel, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Begin that same year. Sadat’s recognition of Israel aroused the wrath of Muslim fundamentalists, and a faction within his own army assassinated him in 1981. Sadat is regarded today as one of the most noble statesmen of the 20th Century. In recognition of his service to humanity, Carter himself was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Contrary to what George S Patton implied, not all soldiers return to fight another war but, as in this case, they bring peace and goodwill where old conflicts continue. It is said Carter transformed his malum into caritas. May his soul continue its journey in peace.