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THE REINCARNATION –
I Possibly the doctrine of reincarnation is a subject that is new to you. Still, this doctrine is older than written history and two thirds of humanity accepts it as fact. The idea prevailing in occidental
world that after a life of 70 or 10 years, if the individual has the
misfortune of dying during the first years of his life, man, following the
style of his life, is condemned to an eternity of happiness in heaven or of
suffering in hell, proves to us how little occidental man recognizes the
value of thinking about the problems related to Life and Death. Because, if he stopped just for a moment
only to think about this subject, this fallacious and absurd idea would have
been abandoned a very long time ago. Three prevailing different groups
of thought try to explain the phenomena of life and death. 1 – The scientific theory says
that life starts in the cradle and ends in the grave. The conscience ends with the destruction
of the body and the brain. 2 – The theological theory says
that each human being, at birth, receives a soul just created by God and
during the sort period between birth and transition, in accordance with his
style of life, if good or bad, he should live eternally in heaven (a place
full of peace and happiness) or in hell (a place of atrocious suffering), all
this after a period of sleep which will last until the trumpets announce the
Final Judgment. 3 – The theory of the occultists,
of he oriental doctrines, of the spiritualists, etc. states that the spirit
is a part of God which cast forth from the Center (God), lives various lives
in a material body, gradually improving through obstacles and problems found
in its environment, until the reaching of perfection and the return to its
Origin. The first of these theories, the
scientific one, does not have, according to its methods, means to study the
spiritual events and, naturally, denies the existence of reincarnation and
also of various phenomena which occur in other planes (other vibratory
frequencies). Nevertheless, some scientists, he
parapsychologists, courageously started to study reincarnation and according
to our opinion, will end up including reincarnation as scientific fact, as
occurred with telepathy and hypnotism. The theological theory follows the
ancient dogmas of the mystics who lived during the Hebrew civilization and
the more recent dogmas of Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, there is nothing in the
Bible which denies the fact of reincarnation. We will study the third theory in
greater detail because it is the most logical of the three. Reincarnation explains better than
any other theory why one person is born intelligent whereas another is born
stupid or a boor, skilful or clumsy. Many of the first African or
American civilizations, besides believing in the survival of the spirit,
believed in the return of the spirit in a new material body. The first civilizations of Egypt,
Chaldea, Persia, China also believed in reincarnation. But it was in India that this
doctrine was always amply spread because the Hindu mind was very attracted to
spiritual matters and India is the homeland of the great mystics. Even though, due to neglect of material
matters the situation was thrown out of balance and today India is becoming a
famished nation and in no condition to go along with modern practices and
manners and, therefore, to be a leader in the area of mysticism. Although the Christian Churches do
not believe in reincarnation, the following passages from the Bible reveal
that the primitive Christians did believe in reincarnation: “Some say it is John the Baptist,
others that it is Elisha, or Jeremiah or one of the prophets”- answer given
by the disciples of Jesus when He asked them who they thought He as”(Saint
Matthew, XVI-14). Referring to John the Baptist,
Jesus said: “If you want to believe, this is the Elisha who had to
come”(Saint Matthew, XVI-14). When the disciples mentioned the
prophecy in the Old Testament that Elisha should come before the Saviour, He
answered: “In fact Elisha will come and recover everything. Still, I tell you that Elisha already come
and was not recognized … The disciples understood then that He was talking to
them about John the Baptist (Saint Matthew, XII-13. In Saint John XV we read that His
disciples on finding a man that had been born blind asked Jesus: “Who sinned,
this man or this parents, for him to be born blind?”. From this question we conclude the
belief in reincarnation as well as Karma was common in those times and if Jesus had not approved of
those ideas He would not have missed the opportunity to admonish his
disciples. Jesus’ doctrine could be
summarized thus: “Love thy Father above everything else and thy neighbor as
thyself”. Within His teachings there were no instructions on reincarnation, nourishment,
life beyond the Earth, etc. for those peoples whose way of life was very
different to ours. When one studies reincarnation,
the most important question is this: Can reincarnation be proved? Putting aside the instructions
left by numberless Masters and occultists endowed with extra sensory
perception, reference is made to the thousands of cases of people from all
over and at all times who remembered about their former existence, as proof. The general rule, though, is that
people do not remember their former existences – which is a blessing: our
prior personalities were more coarse than our present one. This is also the case of the
environment. And we went through many
moments of suffering and horror.
Those disagreeable periods, if they were recorded in our
memories, would make our present
lives unbearable. Try to remember a period when you
suffered and you will perceive that during the days that followed and even
many months ate, the memory of your sufferings tortured your everyday life. Now that many years have passed
you do not suffer that influence any longer and, in fact, you do not want the
memories to return to your mind. Now try remember some things that
happened when you were four years or even nine years old. Thousands of things
happened at that time. Still your
memory only fixes two or three occurrences and sometimes not even that. During previous centuries the
memories of former lives were witnessed by qualified people and even by
scientists of those times. But, as
the scientists of those times are not believed by the present ones, as
likewise those of the present will not be believed by the scientific
researchers of the future, those cases were forgotten. In late years various scientific
institutes have been looking into reincarnation and have already recorded
thousands of cases which have been studied exactingly in scientific terms. Rebirth is the only way by which
we can explain why some people have a more developed mental capability than
others, such as memory, reasoning and creativity, or why others are more apt
at work that needs the use of the hands such as drawing, fix a radio or build
a shed in the back yard. Child prodigies are another
indication that reincarnation exists.
These children at an early age are able to compose classical music,
make complicated calculations, speak foreign languages. They are already born with that
knowledge, they do not need books or teachers. In other cases all that is need is a rapid contact with the
science or art of their calling to reach the stage that an adult only reaches
after many years of studying very hard. Another field which opens up to
the researchers of reincarnation is the age retrogression experience by means
of hypnotism which allows a person to return to the past, passing though
childhood and continuing back to former lives. This experience permits that a person remembers his past as if
he were actually living it again. The only problem arising from
these experiences, is that the facts occurred many centuries ago in a
completely changed environment and he characters which took part are all dead
which makes it very difficult to prove that the facts mentioned by the person
hypnotized actually occurred.
(continue) + + + Nobody can say that has courage,
if it never faced the danger. La
Rochefoucauld It has the exact measure of the
value of a man, telling the number of mediocre that are colligated for to
throw down him.
Rubinstein The one that seeing just thing does not practice her, it
commits a cowardice.
Confucius Among all of the all things that
the man will arrive one day to understand, the last surely will be he
himself.
Conan Doyle *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* I searched God and did not find
Him. I searched to me and did not find
me I searched the neighbor and found
the three. No human being is self-sufficient,
all of us We need other ones to be we
ourselves. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ÓCopyright.
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