The Enigma Rebirth - and its Solution
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The Enigma of Rebirth - and its Solution
Reincarnation – the Key to Meaning and Justice
The topic of Reincarnation, the concept of multiple lives on Earth, still has a rather difficult position in many cultures and causes disbelief in many people. The majority of people on Earth, including atheists and agnostics, don't believe in reincarnation. But does that entitle us to regard this majority as decisive and right, and to regard the faith of about 2.5 billion people as false? It is important to know that the idea of reincarnation was very much alive in early Christianity, but was then banned at the Council of Constantinople in 553, so for about 1,500 years. But can a human council decision actually have an effect on a cosmic phenomenon that is in accordance with the Laws of Creation?
The long banishment of the doctrine of reincarnation has, of course, meant that many are hesitant to approach this buried thought, which can only slowly come to light as the power of the churches wanes. But for those who do so seriously, a completely new understanding of the interrelationships and Cosmic Justice opens up.
If we look at the very unequal starting conditions of most people in their lives, i.e. the distribution of births, the inequality of abilities and talents, health and appearance and also the destinies, then at first glance there can be no question of justice – the differences and contrasts are too obvious. But this justice must of course be part of the order of creation if it is to be perfect!
The simplest and most comfortable, but also quite questionable way is, of course, to view the world as a product of chance, of the amazing combination and smooth interaction of billions and billions of atoms and molecules. Of course, in this way of thinking, the world must not pursue any higher meaning, and nobody must expect any values or morals from it. In this world view, the unequal distribution of abilities and opportunities from birth on is simply a ‘game of chance’.
Fortunately, however, many people are plagued by doubts about this approach. For them, the strong feeling of injustice alone is an indication that it cannot happen that way, but that there must be something like justice instead. If it did not exist, it could logically not be violated. Furthermore, the purely materialistic approach to the origin of life also contradicts all Laws of Probability, as the macromolecular researcher Bruno Vollmer impressively demonstrated 50 years ago in his book ‘What Darwin could not know and what Darwinists do not want to know’ (translated title), which has not been refuted to this day.
If we want to make progress in the question of the justice and plausibility of our fates, we need a coherent solution that solves the mystery. As with many other ‘secrets’ and ambiguities, we simply lack the information that would lead to clarification; the same applies here!
In this case, the solution lies in assuming several instead of just one single life on earth! If we simply imagine that a newborn child is not a kind of ‘blank slate’, but has already travelled a path of development as a human being that spans many thousands of years, then it is also easy for our intellect to grasp that, due to our free will, there must be great differences.
Similar to thanatology, the study of death, reincarnation research has also come across some amazing phenomena that can hardly be explained otherwise than through rebirth, thus confirming ancient knowledge to some extent. It is also little known that until the above-mentioned Council of Constantinople in 553, belief in rebirth based on the teachings of Origen was widespread! Unfortunately, the doctrine of reincarnation was banned at this council, hammering the nail into the coffin of all plausibility. The key to meaning and justice was thus lost until today for those who followed the doctrines uncritically and unquestioningly.
But how can we visualise the process of reincarnation, which affects all of us without exception?
It is basically not complicated, but requires knowledge of the physical processes that occur when we die, which also apply to the invisible world of subtle matter. You can find a description of these processes here.
Since a person, when dying, that is, when passing over to the other world, leaves behind the two densest, heaviest bodies, namely the earthly and the astral body, there is no reason why exactly these two bodies, which are newly formed during pregnancy in the mother's womb, cannot be taken on again! And that is the soul incarnating into the newly created body! The ‘re-entry into the flesh’, which is the translation of reincarnation, then takes place in the middle of pregnancy and causes the first fetal movements.
This rebirth is also inevitable, because we all need not just one, but many earthly lives with the necessary experiences to complete our development process and return to the realm of our origin, which we left long ago unconsciously. If we have also taken our own wrong turns and incurred guilt, which we must first get rid of before we can ascend, then the whole process is considerably delayed!
The way in which we have spent our numerous lives on Earth, whether constructively or destructively, energetically or indifferently and lethargically, eagerly or disinterestedly, also brings us our character, our abilities, our inclinations, our virtues and vices and our destiny, and thus also the diversity among people, which brings clear, unmistakable differences even in newborns.
Evidence of Rebirth
Why don't we Remember past Lives?
Of course, the first question that arises is: ‘If we have come such a long way, having had so many lives, shouldn't we be able to remember them?’
In this case, I can refer to what I have already written in the article about fate; because fate and reincarnation are closely related!
We usually take the lack of memory as proof that there cannot have been any previous life on earth. However, this is not conclusive, because we usually define ourselves through our daily consciousness, which is dependent on the brain. However, our brain cannot necessarily look back on previous lives on earth, since we have received it anew with this present body.
Direct memory of past lives is therefore not possible as a rule, and that is a good thing! For we should be able to live this life spontaneously and impartially, free in our decisions.
Just imagine: if we knew exactly when and where we had met one of our fellow human beings before, it would be terrible! We would know where and how we had wronged each other, and we would probably suffer from the memory of serious misdeeds or even crimes that we had once committed. We would know who was our friend and who was our enemy, who we were married to and how the marriage went, who our brothers and sisters were, who our parents were, who our superiors were and who might be our children in this life.
If we think about all this, it immediately becomes clear that even a halfway unbiased life would no longer be possible!
Despite everything, of course, we have our spirit, our spiritual core within us, which knows all this and has lived through it. It permeates our entire body and brain, and also ‘feeds’ it with likes, dislikes and everything that makes up our spiritual being. In isolated cases, memories of past lives can therefore also come to the surface and become conscious. Here, reincarnation research has already brought quite astonishing cases to light. As a rule, however, as already mentioned, we are not aware of this for our own protection!
Mary Sutton, who died in 1933, with her daughter
Jenny Cockell, the re-incarnated Mary Sutton
21 years later, with her eldest son Sonny.
These already mentioned astonishing cases of reincarnation research should make us think – from a spiritual point of view, it would be negligent to dismiss them as non-existent or as fantasies. Particularly frequent and striking are the cases in which people die a violent death and are then reborn within a short time, sometimes only a few months after their previous death. After this very short period of time, the memories are often still very vivid and clear. The children then talk in detail about what they did and experienced in their previous life, what kind of parents they had and what occupation they pursued. In some cases, they also playfully operate complicated machines with which they were familiar in the past. In addition, they usually learn to speak and walk much faster than usual in such cases. All these things have been unequivocally proven by the researchers and are not figments of the imagination.
Most cases come from the Far East, where the idea of reincarnation is quite normal and therefore no inner blockage is built up. The case of the English woman Jenny Cockell, who died on 24 October 1933 as Mary Sutton during the birth of one of her many children in the Rotunda Hospital, was also widely reported. She returned after 21 years and was then able to find the place of her former life and also her old children, whom she then met as her former mother, who was of course much younger than her children from her previous life. She was able to identify herself to her children through countless detailed descriptions of everyday life that they could still clearly remember.
In the lecture ‘Fate’ of the Grail Message, the following important connections are listed:
‘But one of the principal mistakes so many people make is that they only judge according to gross matter, regarding themselves as the centre therein, and taking into consideration one earth-life, whereas in reality they already have several earth-lives behind them. These, as well as the intervening times in the Ethereal World, are equal to one uniform existence, through which the threads are tightly stretched without breaking, so that in the effects of a particular earthly existence only a small part of these threads therefore becomes visible.
Hence it is a great mistake to believe that at birth an absolutely new life begins, that a child is thus “innocent”,* and that all happenings can be accounted for in only the short life on earth. If this were true, then the existing Justice would naturally require the combined causes, effects and reactions to occur during the span of one earth-life. (* Lecture II–10: “The mystery of birth”)
Turn away from this error. You will then soon discover in everything that happens the logic and justice which are now so often missed!
Many are alarmed at this and afraid of what they still have to expect from the past through the reaction in accordance with these Laws.
But such are unnecessary worries for those who are in earnest about the good volition; for in the self-acting Laws also lies at the same time the certain guarantee of mercy and forgiveness!
Quite apart from the fact that, with the firm beginning of the good volition, a limit is immediately set for the point where the chain of evil reactions must come to an end, yet another process of immense importance comes into force:
Through the continuing good volition in every thought and deed, a constant reinforcement also flows retroactively from the homogeneous source of power, so that the good becomes more and more firmly established in man himself, emerges from him, and first of all forms accordingly the ethereal surrounding that envelops him like a protective covering in much the same way as the atmospheric layer round the earth affords it protection.
Now when evil reactions from the past return to this man to be redeemed, they slide off the purity of his surrounding or covering, and are thus deflected from him.
But should they nevertheless penetrate this covering, the evil radiations are either immediately disintegrated or at least appreciably weakened so that the harmful effect cannot manifest at all, or only to a very minor extent.
In addition, through the resulting transformation, the actual inner man to whom the returning radiations are adjusted has also become much more refined and lighter through the continuous striving for the good volition, so that he no longer has any homogeneous affinity with the greater density of evil or base currents. Similar to wireless telegraphy, when the receiver is not tuned in to the energy of the transmitter.
The natural consequence of this is that the denser currents, because they are of a different species, cannot take hold of anything, and thus pass harmlessly through without evil effect, redeemed by some unconscious symbolic action, the various kinds of which I will speak about at some later time.
Therefore set to work without delay! The Creator has placed everything in Creation into your hands. Make use of the time! Every moment holds disaster or gain for you!'
(Grail Message: Lecture ‘Fate’)
Here is a video on YouTube about Jenny Cockell, who has clear memories of her last incarnation:
Conclusions
Let us consider some important conclusions that arise from the extremely extended time horizon that rebirth brings with it:
- We are not victims of the adverse circumstances into which we may have been born, but we had to be born into these circumstances because we have cultivated and supported them over thousands and thousands of years. Ultimately, we ourselves determine, in the medium and long term, how the environment in which we live is formed, based on the law of reciprocal action and the law of attraction of similarities! However, if we only consider a single life on earth, we can comfortably see ourselves as powerless and helpless victims of the circumstances that other people have apparently formed against our will.
- Consequently, collective grievances on a large scale can only arise if they are accepted and supported by a sufficiently large number of people. In world politics, too, every nation must suffer hardship, misery, war and death if it allows itself to be led by chatterboxes, liars, agitators, ‘rat catchers’ and warmongers, and even votes for them. Such atrocities would be completely inconceivable for any people that had developed a healthy sense of justice and judgement over the course of the millions of years of evolution that have been bestowed upon us all. Then, in fact, only the most highly developed people in every respect would have the chance to become president.
- Nevertheless, no one on this earth has reason to look down on others, because we have all fallen far, far behind the law of creation in our development. If it were otherwise, we would no longer be here, but would have been able to ascend to higher realms long ago. For this reason, it is high time for all of us to catch up on the missed spiritual development as quickly as possible!
If we have the courage to seriously and profoundly deal with the fact of repeated lives on earth, our view and our sense of time will broaden so much that we will be able to recognise both ourselves and all events, both small and large, from a completely different and, above all, more correct perspective – and this will open the way to spiritual ascension for us!
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