Reincarnation is a Natural Law of the Universe
The law of reincarnation, which religious organisations so much
strive to conceal from their followers, in an unfortunate
offence against such elementary truth as that of evolution, is
fully and amply explained by Christian Rationalism. Let it not
be thought, however, that Christian Rationalism is thereby
disclosing an unprecedented truth.
WHAT SOME WELL KNOWN PEOPLE SAY.
Three thousand years before Christ, Krishna in India proclaimed
the existence of a Universal Intelligence, maintaining the
immortality of the soul and its evolution through successive
physical lives. And the great thinker clarified: "The body is
finite, but the soul which lives in it is invisible,
imponderable and eternal." On this train of thought, he
continued: "you and I have undergone numerous reincarnations."
Hermes in Upper Egypt, regarding the soul, its immortality and
reincarnation, asserted thousands of years before the Christian
Era: "Man's spirit goes through two stages: captivity in matter
and ascent to light. During incarnation it loses memory of its
origin.
Later came the Greeks Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato who also
made interesting dissertations on the immortality of the soul
and its past lives. More recently Dr. Pinheiro Guedes pondered
that: "reincarnation of the human spirit, consisting of
successive existences or multiple bodily lives of a conscious
individual, is a law to which all spirits are subject and is an
essential condition for its advancement." He also said that:
"reincarnation means the pre-existence and survival of the human
soul." Our life is in fact "a series of lives, each one less
free of errors, vices and crimes. The incarnation of the soul is
a means of atoning for past errors. Earthly life may bring
together offended and offender, and may reunite in the same
family a victim and his torturer in a previous life, behind the
veil of matter, and thanks to the oblivion of past lives on
earth."
WHY DENY THIS TRUTH ?
So why do western religions try so hard, strive so much, are so
obstinate in denying reincarnation? Why do they fight it so
uncompromisingly, in spite of all the loud, unsuspected evidence
of its real existence? Why do they persist in ignoring so many
facts, of which the history is full, which prove it to
exhaustion? The answer lies in the fact that reincarnation and
salvation are conflicting, opposing, clashing concepts because
they are adversely, irreducibly incompatible. In the concept of
salvation, closely connected to the benefits of forgiveness,
lies precisely the basis on which those religions are anchored.
If religious organisations were to disclose to their followers
the truth concerning the fantasy of forgiveness, eternal
salvation, the celestial mansion, the divine father, hell, the
devil, purgatory and so many other illusions, none of them would
remain standing. Not only industries related to clay saints,
printed prayers, relics, videos, DVD's and other marketing
practices, would disappear, but people would also realize, that
forgiveness, under the natural law of the universe known as
"cause and effect, wouldn't save them from coming back to live
other physical lives and learn new lessons connected to
wrongdoings from previous lives.
When a man becomes convinced that if he does wrong he will
inescapably have to redeem it, without the possibility of
forgiveness; when he realizes that in the course of each
incarnation he is preparing himself for his next incarnation and
that the latter will be more or less arduous according to the
manner in which he has exercised his free will, done good or
wrong; when he becomes sure that his good actions will revert to
his benefit and his wrongdoings against him; when he realizes
that he can count on nobody's help to relieve him of the
consequences of his faults, which he will have to redeem himself
by means of dignified actions, no matter how many reincarnations
may be necessary, then will he or she certainly ponder more
carefully before committing an undignified act.