The Mystery Of Life And Death - I

Before reading the next series of posts, you are advised to put aside all pre-conceived notions and prior teachings on life, death and reincarnation. The information that follows will not only challenge those preconceptions, but if understood correctly, will explode all former myths and misconceptions and replace them with the bright light of Truth. ~ g

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We would like to look more closely into the mystery of life and death. And in doing so, we intend to repudiate the ancient occult doctrine of reincarnation as being contrary to reality. For many seekers of Liberation, reincarnation will have been the last straw to which they can cling. Many think: 'If I am unable to attain rebirth in the liberating sense, then, at least I will have the possibility pf rebirth in the horizontal sense. I will return to this vale of tears, and see what happens next'.

For many people, this serves as a kind of "life insurance". 'Suppose everything I have learned about the Doctrine of Liberation turns out to be wrong,' they say to themselves. 'Never mind! At least I can be sure that I exist. Look at the number of people there are who remember their incarnations'. Volumes have been written about this.

'At the moment, I am here; before long, I will be on vacation in the heavenly spheres, and when it is time for me to return, I shall take good care to choose the right cradle'.

'I am getting on in years, and my time will not last much longer. Soon I will be going to my summer resort. In the meantime, let those in the material-sphere destroy each other with hydrogen bombs. When the storm is over, I will come back and bask beneath the palms'.

'The wheel of birth and death may turn in duality, but still it goes on turning and so, in essence, does not affect the existence of my I-being'.

Those who have been accustomed to consoling themselves with the apparent comfort of the reincarnation process will be filled with amazement, protestation and secret fear  as they read this chapter, for their final certainty in life will be under attack.

Are there philosophical grounds for what we are saying? Can this standpoint be verified experimentally? Can proof be presented from the history of the transfiguristic brotherhood? How is this standpoint to be reconciled with Divine Justice? In taking this view, are we brought down to the level of the insight-less insight of orthodox religious communities, with their threats of "only one life", after which one comes before the divine judgement-seat?

These, and many other questions will arise, and we will answer them, if necessary, with such a barrage of scientific facts that in the end, everyone will be able to understand what we mean.

To begin with, then, here is an outline of the standpoint in question:

- You live only once.

- After death, your life's flame is gradually extinguished after a longer or shorter time.

- Not a glimmer of it will ever be found again.

- At this moment you are a living soul; not in the eternal sense, however, but only in the sense of space and time.

- The personality made use of by the soul is to be accounted for by that soul-state

- Your personality dies, and so does your soul. The Bible, the Universal Doctrine and the facts leave no room for doubt in this respect.

- This leads to the conclusion that it is in this life that you must decide about life and death.

- If you don't do so now, another soul vivified in your microcosm will have to do so, perhaps in a few thousand years' time, but that other soul will certainly not be you.

- New-born souls do not come from the invisible planes of life and neither are they one with, or to be explained from, a microcosm;  they are purely the material product of two material parents.

- Your soul-existence is generative. The collective of earthly souls is infinitely divisible. One soul goes and another one comes and everything remains as it is.

- In the domain of duality, there are countless soul-waves just like our one, each differing in vibration, as a result of which there are countless variations of form and consciousness.

- Soul-life has nothing to do with the life of the spirit, and the attempt to see a spirit in a soul is like saying that opposites are the same.

- So, either the ancient doctrines of reincarnation have another meaning altogether, or they are a delusion.

That is the problem, broadly speaking, and we would now like to try and unravel it for you.

From "The Mystery of the Fall" The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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