Reincarnation is a fact and a Universal Law

by CR (008)

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, should be amply explained to humanity.

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 reincarnations.

And the great thinker clarified: "The body is finite, but the soul which lives in it is invisible, imponderable and eternal."

Referring to reincarnation, he remarked: "When the body dies, if the human being was enlightened on earth, the soul rises to the regions of the pure beings who have the knowledge of life. But is, while incarnate, the soul allowed itself to become the prey of passions and intemperate desires, it will then have to return to the earth in order to make up for the time lost."

On this train of thought, he continued: "you and I have undergone numerous reincarnations. Mine are known to me alone, whereas you do not know even your own. The evils with which we torment our fellow men follow us like the shadow follows the body. The work whose aim is love of our fellow neighbour should be inspired by what is just because that is what contributes most to spiritual evolution. A virtuous man is like a tree in our forests whose healthful shade gives the plants surrounding it the freshness of life."

Hermes in Upper Egypt asserted thousands of years before the Christian Era:

(a) 'That the Universal Intelligence is the only creative power in the Universe.

(b)  That its attributes are immensity, eternity, independence, an almighty will and unlimited goodness."

Regarding the soul, its immortality and reincarnation, he pondered:

"Man's spirit goes through two stages: captivity in matter and ascent to light. During incarnation it loses memory of its origin. Enslaved by matter and inebriated by life's unsound pleasures, it plunges, like a torrent of fire, dominated by sensuality, through the regions of suffering, love and death, down to earthly captivity where real life appears to be a dream.

Poorly evolved souls remained tied down to earth during multiple rebirths. The virtuous souls, however, rise to the upper spheres where they recover the sight of real values, where they absorb the light of conscience, enlightened by pain, with the will power gathered through strife. They become luminous because they have light in themselves and through their actions they radiate this light."

Later came the Greeks Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato who also made interesting dissertations on the immortality of the soul and its reincarnation.

References

[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984

[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese