reincarnation [Theme]

It is not clear to me how, even in the Primary World, any theologian or philosopher, unless he is better informed than others about the relationship of spirit and body, can deny the possibility of reincarnation as a mode of existence inherent in certain types of rational beings.

Reincarnation is the donkey's last chance.

- You know, the Buddha says that peace comes from within, but it may take several lives.
- Very convenient.

Question: is the Dogma of the resurrection of the body, whether it is a peculiar expression of the dogma of reincarnation, taught by spirits?
Answer: How could it be otherwise?! With these words, the same happens with many others, they seem foolish in the eyes of some people only because they are taken literally, it leads to unbelief. But give them a reasonable interpretation, and those whom you call free-thinkers, easily accept them because they wonder; for, make no mistake about them, these free thinkers are also committed only to the faith. They, like the others, and maybe more than others, thirst for the future, but they can't accept the fact that rejected by the science. The doctrine of the multiplicity of existences is consistent with the justice of God. Only it one can explain the fact that without it is inexplicable. And how would you like to the principle of this was not inherent in the religion?!

Question: History tells us of many Nations that befell them after the shocks are back to barbarism. What in this case is progress?
Answer: When your house threatens to collapse, do you break it to build it a more durable and more convenient; but until it is built, not restored, in your dwelling there is disorder and confusion. Understand also that you were poor and lived in a hovel, but you get rich and leave her to live in the Palace. And then some poor, just like you, takes your place in that shack and still very satisfied, because before he didn't have it. Now! Know that the spirits embodied now in this viridissima the people, not the same as it was during its heyday; those who lived in it before and were promoted, retired to the abode of the more advanced and progressed further, while other, less advanced have taken their place and they in turn leave.

Question: History tells us of many Nations that befell them after the shocks are back to barbarism. What in this case is progress?
Answer: When your house threatens to collapse, do you break it to build it a more durable and more convenient; but until it is built, not restored, in your dwelling there is disorder and confusion. Understand also that you were poor and lived in a hovel, but you get rich and leave her to live in the Palace. And then some poor, just like you, takes your place in that shack and still very satisfied, because before he didn't have it. Now! Know that the spirits embodied now in this viridissima the people, not the same as it was during its heyday; those who lived in it before and were promoted, retired to the abode of the more advanced and progressed further, while other, less advanced have taken their place and they in turn leave.

Autumn moon.
Oh, if being born again
Pine on the mountain.

Question: Since the vicissitudes of physical life are at once the redemption of past mistakes and challenge for the future, then does it follow that their nature is to judge the lifestyle that people led in a previous existence?
Answer: Very often, Yes; because each grounded in what he had sinned; however, this should not make absolute rules; the instinctive propensities and motivations are more a sure sign, because the tests undergone by the spirit, drawn to the past and to the future.

Question: does the soul Incarnate immediately after its separation from the body?
Answer: Sometimes immediately, but usually after time intervals more or less long. In the higher worlds, reincarnation, there are almost always immediate. As a matter of the body less gross than you have here, the embodied spirit is there almost all the faculties of the spirit; his normal condition similar to the condition of your clairvoyant somnambulists.

Question: a Man belonging to a civilized people, can he, as an atonement, to be embodied in people wild?
Answer: Yes, but it depends on the kind of his atonement; the owner, who was cruel to his slaves, may in turn become a slave and experience the full brunt of ill-treatment, he was forced to undergo others. It is his atonement, if he abused his power, and God can it to this oblige. The spirit of kindness, in order to encourage the promotion of backward peoples, also can choose their own existence, able to influence them to promote their development, and then it is a special purpose mission.

Question: As the spirit may wish to be born among people who lead a vicious life?
Answer: it is Necessary that he was sent into the environment where it will be put to the test as he requested. Now! There must be compliance: in order to fight the instinct of brigandage, it is necessary to be among the people in this class.
Question: If the Earth was not of the people leading a vicious life, it turns out, the spirit could not find the environment corresponding to some tests?
Response: Is this cost used to be sorry?! This is what takes place in the upper worlds, where evil finds access; and therefore, there are only good spirits. Make on your Land in a short time would be the same.

The knowledge acquired in each existence is not lost. The spirit, freed from matter, always remembers them. During the incarnation, he could forget them in part, but a vague consciousness remaining, helping the progress of its improvement - without this, every time he would start first. With each new incarnation, the spirit begins its improvement from the point at which it stopped during the previous existence.

Question: Can parents in your thoughts and prayers to bring the body of his unborn child of the good spirit and to ward off bad spirit?
Answer: No, but they can improve the spirit of a child born from them and entrusted to their care; it is their duty; bad children is a test for the parents.

Question: According to some, the doctrine of the incarnation destroys the family ties, raising them beyond the present existence.
Answer: It expands them, not to destroy. ... It increases the duties of the brotherhood, because your neighbor or your servant is, maybe the spirit that was once connected to you by blood.