Another text that I published in the Portuguese
magazine "Boa Estrela" (Great Star), which has a monthly circulation
of 14,500 copies. This text was published in September 2022.
Various biblical passages that allude to
reincarnation, Vedic passages, the Zohar, the concept of Samsara, Our Lady's
message, spiritism, and reincarnation, among others.
«To be born, to die, to be reborn, and to progress indefinitely, such is the law». (Allan Kardec)
About half of the world's population believes in
reincarnation (by religious belief).
Approximately 51% of Catholics claim to believe in
reincarnation (statistics carried out in Brazil in 1991 by the Church of God of
the Seventh Day).
Several spiritist doctrines defend the
reincarnationist theory, including eastern ones such as Brahmanism (Brahma,
masculine personification of the Absolute) or Hinduism, where the Vedas (Veda =
knowledge) were divided into four parts, the second half of which were the
Upanishad texts (compiled by the sage Vyasadeva), which mention reincarnation
through a cycle of births and deaths, transmigrations.Samsara derives from the
root Samsr (circular) or from the Sanskrit Samsâra (rotation), which is the
ocean of births and deaths to which we are connected until we reach wisdom and liberation
(moksha), when we are aware of the true divine essence.
- The Bhagavad-Gita, compiled between the 5th and 1st
centuries B.C., includes a very illuminating passage:
"As the embodied soul continually passes in this
body from childhood to youth and old age, so the soul passes into another body
after death."
And there is a “song of immortality”, of which I will
transcribe only a very enlightening part:
“[…] As one leaves the worn-out garments to wear new garments, so the soul leaves the worn-out body to put on new bodies, I have taken many births, and so have you, Arjuna, I know them all, but you do not know them.” [ ...]
- Another Eastern Brahmanist text:
“There is an immortal part of man, O Agni, which must
warm with your rays and inflame with your fires; where did the soul come from?
Some come to us and leave, others leave and come back”.
In classical Greece (580–496 BC), Pythagoras and Plato
already referred to reincarnation, based on Eastern philosophies.
(“souls drink the waters of the river Leteo, the river
of oblivion, before preparing for their next incarnation,” book: The Republic)
- The American Indians of the 18th century also
believed that the soul traveled to a new body after death.
In the same century, the philosopher Kant believed
that souls could transmigrate to another life that was more refined and
suitable for intellectual functions; he argued that the corporeal matter of
inhabitants of planets farther from the sun would be thinner and more elastic,
(here on earth, we would be in the middle -term).
The German philosopher Leibinz believed that the most
evolved spirits probably inhabited the stars of the firmament.
In ancient Egypt, as evidenced by a «Papyrus Anana»
(1320 BC), it states:
«Man returns to life several times but does not
remember his previous lives except in dreams.»
In the end, all these lives will be revealed to you.”
(Kardecian spiritism defends the same thing.)
The Christian religion denies reincarnation; however,
centuries ago these scriptures spoke about it; they are antecedents, and Jesus
was probably the reincarnation of Krishna, because Krishna (Christ_na, the
Christ) appeared more than 5000 years ago! Jesus always said:
«No one can see the Kingdom of Heaven unless they are
born again.» (John, III:3)
Jesus explained to Nicodemus (John III, /12) that it
was necessary to be born again. Nicodemus, not understanding how a man could be
born again, questioned:
“How can a man be born when he is old? Can he perhaps
return to his mother's womb and be born a second time? “.
To which Christ replied:
“What is born of the flesh is flesh; what is born of
the spirit is spirit.”
- In Matthew, chap. XVII, from 9 to 13, Jesus also
explained Elijah's reincarnation:
«And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus
commanded them:
“Tell no one the vision until the Son of Man is raised
from the dead.”
And his disciples asked him, saying:
“Why, say the scribes, must Elijah come first? “
Jesus answers: “Indeed, Elijah will come first and
will restore all things. Thus shall they also make the Son of Man suffer.”
(Then they understood that he had spoken to them about
John the Baptist).
When Jesus was about to pass close to a man who had
been blind since birth, the disciples asked:
“Master, who sinned for this man to be born blind, he
or his parents?” (John 9: 1-2).
Now, if we think about it, how could the blind man
have sinned before he was born? Only if he had sinned in a previous existence.
The Jews called reincarnation “resurrection”. The
Christian religion says that Jesus already paid for our sins on the cross and
that by dying, we are soon purified. Will be? So if on average we live about
eighty years of life, this indicates that we were all born at the zero degree
of evolution, we are all here for the first time, so how do you explain that
some people are spiritually more advanced than others?
Why are we at different degrees of moral and spiritual
evolution? As?
If we are all here for the first time and
reincarnation doesn't exist, how come the doctrine of Krishna (more than 5000
years old) talks about reincarnation? And many other religions? Would everyone
be delusional?
- Our Lady made a communication to Lucia when she was
crying over the death of her brother Francisco, Our Lady said:
«Lucia! Lucia!... Before I call you to Paradise and
before you leave your body, much later, Francisco will be born again, and he
will see you and embrace you again. He will come with you to fulfill the last
act of the prophecy I gave you at Fatima. He will be with the brother born
again by the will of the Father. Don't be afraid of his death. He is not dead.
He's in the real life. He has patience.»
-Then: he will be born again and will see you and
embrace you again.
Several exponents of Christian theology believed in
reincarnation, some of them being: Saint Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Saint
Gregory Nasiazeno, and Pope Saint Gregory the Great.
Can we rest easy, live in mediocrity, knowing that we
will be forgiven in the end, if Jesus has rescued us from all of our mistakes?
What would be the use of doing good? If the greatest killers will also be
purified at the moment of death, why should we try so hard to evolve?
And will this life be enough for us to improve
ourselves 100%? Do not.
And, contrary to what Christians think, reincarnation
is not a punishment; if they think so, they are also saying that this life is a
punishment! Life is not just about tests and atonements, it is an opportunity
to improve ourselves spiritually, to make friends, create family ties, learn,
teach, laugh, and love; life and subsequent reincarnations are gifts from God!
They are opportunities for improvement and conviviality.
Living is not a punishment, so is living again?
At least those who believe in reincarnation make a
wonderful effort to improve themselves as quickly as possible, becoming better
beings. They must certainly have a different posture from those who live
unconcerned with their faults, believing that at the moment of death they will
be “purified” and that everything will be taken care of.
Christians say that we came here for the first time
(there is no reincarnation), which implies two unlikely things.
1- That new souls would be born at all times, and there
would be more and more souls passing through the earth. So the souls from here
went where--to heaven? Would they be pure enough after a few years of living
here?
2- If we all start from scratch in this life, how can
it be explained that some people are at another evolutionary level? Are there
differences morally and spiritually between people? And why are some people
less fortunate, hungry, sick, or disabled, while others are happy, wealthy, and
vibrant? If God is just, he wouldn't create a world of inequalities, so he gave
us the opportunity to reincarnate to be compensated and to redeem ourselves
from our mistakes, all now for the first time. Why aren't we spiritually equal?
Why do there exist enlightened beings or masters? How did they appear in other
lives... If we see Buddhas, Krishnas, Dalai Lamas, and Sai Baba, among others,
are they fortunate for God and we are not? Like, if we're all here for the
first time, what makes them different from us?
The answer lies in reincarnation; what each one has is
their spiritual baggage from past incarnations.
One does not evolve spiritually in one lifetime.
But in the year 553, at the Council of Constantinople,
under the threats of the Emperor Justinian of ancient Rome, he decided never to
accept reincarnation.
- The Christian religion says that the reincarnation
thesis implies that there is no Hell; it says that certain souls are condemned
to eternal fire. Sometimes this is criticized by spiritists because the Church
gives the image of a severe and punitive God who does not give certain souls
the opportunity to redeem themselves, but sometimes that is exactly what
reincarnation provides: new opportunities to redeem ourselves from our
mistakes, and spiritism never said that reincarnating was a punishment (the
Catholic religion attributes such statements to spiritism).
Many religions follow the reincarnation thesis, such
as Theosophy, Seicho-No-Ie, Buddhism, Brahmanism (Hinduism), Mazdeism (ancient
Persian religion), Umbanda, Wicca, Shamanism, Kabbalah, Druidism, Judaism,
Spiritism, Hare Krishna, and the Aztlan (Atlantes), the Hebrews, among others.
According to the Kabbalistic perspective, souls return
(Gilgul process) and there is a verse from Ecclesiastes 1:4
«A generation goes and another generation comes, but
the earth continues forever». The generation that comes will be the souls that
return; in the book Zohar, this is explained.
-Judaism (appearing approximately 3760 years ago) says
that souls who have not yet completed their work and still have mistakes to
correct should return to improve themselves. Stating that most of our
generation's souls are returnees, Rabbi David Weitman says that reincarnation
is a reality.
The Rosicrucians also believe in reincarnation; in the
solidification stage of the world (the Lemurian epoch), souls began to
incorporate into physical bodies, and new souls were arriving on Earth, but the
process ended in the Atlantean epoch, and then no more new souls came. Reincarnation
would always be the cycle of souls only here on earth who were reincarnating;
we have evolved over thousands of years in repeated rebirths, in different
times and places.
If new souls arrived here on Earth now, they would
start from nothing and not have the same spiritual evolution as us.
Some people argue that reincarnation is impossible
because fewer people die than are born each time the world's population
increases, so the number of souls dying and being reborn is not compatible. Now
this is about egocentrismo; it is the thesis of those who think that our small
planet is the only inhabited one in the Universe.
Jesus said: “There are many mansions in my Father's house”.
- I'll give you an example that I made: imagine I'm in a rice field with a pile of rice grains in my palm. Each grain symbolized a human soul; for each one I remove from the hand, I symbolize a soul that passes away. I place a new grain in the hand representing the same soul that returns, but in a new body. Thus, the number of grains would be cyclically the same, but only if there was rice solely and exclusively in my hand. In fact, there was other rice everywhere... Just as there are living souls, they exist throughout the Universe and not just on Earth... The number of souls to disincarnate and the number of births do not need to be exactly the same. Earth is not the only world where you reincarnate.
There are several inhabited worlds, and even on Earth,
there are multiple dimensions; quantum physicists theorize that the universe is
linked by sensitive superstrings, vibrations.
Long before
the Celts and Druids were the "physicists" of history, they saw the
world as a three-dimensional web, and shamans (during the Paleolithic period)
knew very well how the invisible world worked, how we are all interconnected to
a network...
When my grandmother told me as a child that «heaven»
was up there, I told her that it was easier for me to believe that it was close
to us, between us, but without our seeing or touching it... Today, when I am
more spiritualized and aware, I understand better how I felt at that time.
«If our hope in Christ is limited only to this life,
we are the most unhappy of all men»
(I Corinthians, 15,19).
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