HOW CORRECT ARE SOME POPULAR BELIEFS? – (PART IV)

3. “There is nothing like reincarnation”.

Let me start this by sharing with you some world views on the issue of what happens after physical death:

1. Materialism: Nothing survives. Death ends it all. Materialism is the natural accompaniment of atheism.

2. Paganism: The standard pagan belief is that a vague, shadowy self or ghost survives and goes to the place of the dead, the dark, gloomy underworld.

3. Immortality: The individual soul survives death, but not the body. This soul eventually reaches its eternal destiny of heaven or hell, perhaps through intermediate stages, perhaps through reincarnation. But what survives is an individual, bodiless spirit. This is Platonism, often confused with Christianity.

4. Resurrection: At death, the soul separates from the body and is reunited at the end of the world to its new, immortal, resurrected body by a divine miracle. This is the Christian view.

In the Light of Truth however, let us thankfully realise that the earth is given to us by the Almighty Father as a school. Let us call it “the school of life”. We are meant to develop in it and mature. On attaining the necessary maturity we ascend to the Eternal Gardens from where we came to the earth in the first place.

To attain this maturity, man needs more than one earth life. Man returns to the earth as often as necessary. But we return as human beings, not as plants or animals as these are of a different species from us. To attain the required maturity, we need to work and strive upwards in each life. Such development is the very purpose of every life on earth!

Through reincarnations the opportunities are presented to each of us to redeem the mistakes of past earth lives. This is another grace of God bestowed upon men. Even if men had remained inwardly good, they would still have to come to the earth repeatedly in order to mature but certainly not as often as has become necessary after the fall of man.

Reincarnation which many people deny today is a lawful happening in Creation that takes place day in day out across the globe!

Let me give an example. Some decades ago, Therese Neumann lived in a part of Europe. At a point in her life she developed a phenomenon called stigmata which means she bore on her body, wound marks similar to those borne by Jesus during His crucifixion. She was sometimes drenched in her own blood while laying on her bed in agony. The pains are aggravated when medicaments are applied to the wounds. During the Easter period, she hears in spirit talk about the crucifixion in dialects of the language of that time to the amazement of language experts and those who came from far and wide on pilgrimage to where she stayed.

When asked about this matter, the author of the Grail Message made it clear that the soul concerned had been on earth before. She was in the past one of those that reviled Christ as He suffered on the cross. She had been permitted to come to the earth this time to settle accounts. Through reincarnation this soul was given another opportunity to recognize her faults and to ask for forgiveness, this being the only way to deliverance!

Therefore, no man lives only once on earth! We come again and again, until we have learned to be such that can be re admitted back to Paradise. That is the key to the understanding of all earth life!