Reincarnation

 

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).

Sílvio Guerrinha . SpiritualMatrix