Reincarnation

The doctrine of reincarnation was generally accepted by early Christians until its repudiation in the 4th century. It is implicit throughout the Teachings of the Order of the Cross.

Our Life is of the Eternal Mystery.
There is no death, though there is change and transmutory process everywhere in the universe of the Father-Mother where His Law obtains and is free to operate perfectly. Consciousness never dies, for it is of the Eternal Spirit and there is no end to the expanse of it. It finds individuated expression in and through ourselves.

The beginnings and endings with which we are familiar, are only in relation to our vehicles of embodiment, wherein the Soul’s grand Processional is accomplished.

The history of the Soul of Man is an age-long processional. There is a constant coming and going. Souls are of such quality in their elements and such constitution in their fashion and of such an Eternal Nature, that they take great ages to he built up into high consciousness. And although that consciousness may be operative within Souls in great degree when they pass over, they nevertheless return to the Earth’s planes through thousands of ages until they have matured.

The question is often asked, “Why are Souls born veiled? Why can I not remember?”

The Divine Wisdom of the Father-Mother is without failure in any degree whatsoever and it veils from a Soul its history until by the natural process of unveiling within, the Soul can arrive at a degree wherein it is able to receive and can endure to have unveiled to it, and even then only very gradually, its past.

Many wonder what is the testimony that we have lived before. Many have glints and gleamings within themselves without being able to relate and correlate, yet feel it so. We love those whom we have known on the way, not only in this life but in other lives. We know through the rapport of our Being with theirs, through the streams of their love finding such response within us.

Why, in everything but the history of a Human Soul, the mind of man seems to believe that great things have taken ages to become manifest, but when it comes to the Human Soul which is the greatest thing of all, they think the Soul began with the human birth of this life?

Where do great artists acquire their ability or genius? It is but the Soul’s own Heredity, the Soul’s own accumulated history, that has come to be expressed in and through the life artistically. When new lives come, they are old Souls coming into new lives for manifestation and service. They are old Souls regarmented with an earthly body for new experiences or purposes of manifestation.

Souls return to earth to fulfill the law of growth. They are sent back for education or ministry. Even rebirth, or reincarnation, is not related only to the path and process of Soul-evolution upon this planet, for it is an Eternal Law operating through all the Kingdoms, Realms and Spheres of all Soul-worlds.

Excerpts from writings by J. Todd Ferrier, taken from the leaflet Reincarnation: Our Immortal Soul.

See the next page The Passing of Souls and the quotation from The Continuity of Consciousness.

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