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Quotes on
reincarnation
"...the ‘ban’ on the teaching of
reincarnation is based on
historical misrepresentation and
has no ecclesiastical authority.
It was in fact a ‘fait accompli’,
brought about by Justinius, which
no-one within the Christian
church has dared to challenge in
the course of some 1500 years.
What is worse is that the subject
has been totally ignored..."
Peter Andreas
"As the embodied soul
continuously passes, in this
body, from boyhood to old age,
the soul similarly passes into
another body at death. A
sober person is not bewildered by
such a change. " Bhagavad-Gita
2-13
The average Christian confuses
the Law of Rebirth with what he
calls "the transmigration of
souls," and frequently believes
that the Law of Rebirth signifies
the passing of human beings into
the bodies of animals or of lower
forms of life. Such is by no
means the case. As the life of
God progresses onwards through
form after form... the life of
God passes into the human
kingdom, and becomes subject to
the Law of Rebirth and not the
law of Transmigration. AAB/Djwhal
Khul
"The deletion of this truth from
the Church's teachings has
resulted in the ignorance and
fear so much in evidence today.
Where interest in reincarnation
has survived, it has, for the
most part, taken the form of an
almost exclusive interest in the
supposed personal details of
previous lives." The Master
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"Our fear of death is our fear
that our identity will be
obliterated. It is this which
terrifies. If we did but realise
and experience that that identity
is an immortal Being which cannot
die or be obliterated, our fear
of death would vanish."
Benjamin Creme
"...when I read Jesus’ startling
statement in Matt. 5:48: "You,
therefore, must be perfect, as
your heavenly father is perfect,"
I was deeply troubled by what
seemed to be an unreasonable
demand; something impossible of
attainment. Now I realize that He
was referring indirectly to
rebirth, so that we have whatever
number of lives we need to
achieve that high standard of
perfection." Rev. Howard Ray
Carey
"If you had just one minute to
breath and they granted you one
final wish, would you ask for
something like another chance?
Don't worry, it's alright it will
happen to you..." Traffic
"Man is spiritual being -- a soul
, in other words -- and that this
soul takes on different bodies
from life to life on earth to
order at last to arrive at such
perfect knowledge, through
repeated experience, as to enable
one to assume a body fit to be
the dwelling-place of a Mahatma
or perfected soul. Then, they
say, that particular soul becomes
a spiritual helper to mankind. "
H.P. Blavatsky
"In its esoteric sense Jesus'
remark to Nicodemus: Thou must be
born again, cannot be interpreted
as referring to reincarnation,
but to that inner transformation
of man, equivalent to a new
birth. That alone can transmute
us into new beings capable of
entering into that spiritual
state called the kingdom of
heaven." Jeanine Miller
"...it is also important to raise
the consciousness as high as
possible at the time of death,
using the last nerve reflex to
drive the consciousness through
the astral and the lower mental
levels onto higher mental levels
as far, as fast and as
consciously as possible. That is
why it is so important that there
should be some preparation for
death and in the future people
will be taught how to die
consciously" Benjamin Creme
"Truth like the sun, submits to
be obscured; but like the sun,
only for a time." Bovee
"Karma is the eternal assertion
of human freedom.
Our thoughts, our words and deeds
are the threads
of the net which we throw around
ourselves." Swami Vivekananda
"Far from experiencing such a
loss, the dead man finds that,
freed from the limitations of the
physical vehicle, his conscious
awareness is heightened
immeasurably. He sees both ways:
the world of forms which he has
just left and the new world into
which he has come, with familiar
people around him ready to
welcome him..." Benjamin
Creme
"When I see nothing annihilated
and not a drop of water wasted, I
cannot suspect the annihilation
of souls...I believe I shall, in
some shape or other, always
exist. I shall not object to a
new edition of mine, hoping,
however, that the errata of the
last may be corrected." Benjamin
Franklin
"The important factor in relation
to the incarnational process is
that we incarnate not
individually, but in groups.
While, of course, individual
incarnation does take place, it
is only incidental to the greater
event of group rebirth. This
group rebirth proceeds
cyclically, according to certain
laws governing the manifestation
of energies or Rays, and
connected also with the point in
evolution of the groups
involved." Benjamin Creme
"I am certain that I have been
here as I am now a thousand times
before, and I hope to return a
thousand times...Man is a
dialogue between nature and God.
On other planets this dialogue
will doubtless be of a higher and
profounder character. What is
lacking is Self-Knowledge. After
that the rest will follow."
Goethe
"I do believe... that in the West
the new interest in reincarnation
has centred almost exclusively in
recall of past lives with the
harmful ensuing glamours which
that has released. The important
life is the one in which we find
ourselves now." Benjamin Creme
"What should be recognized is
that the personality is only the
physical instrument, which is
temporarily occupied by the real,
immortal, inner man -the soul.
The material sheath of flesh,
blood and bone, is definitely
mortal, and ‘dies’ at the end of
the life span, when the soul,
together with the essence of
life, is withdrawn. The dead body
then disintegrates into its
constituent atoms, but the
immortal soul is transferred to
one of the etheric levels,
depending on the spiritual
development achieved." Aart
Jurriaanse
"Correctly seen, evolutionary
life is a gradual renunciation of
the lower for the sake of the
higher. As a soul in incarnation,
a high level of divinity has
incarnated at a lower level of
divinity, and the journey to
perfection, the evolutionary
goal, is the gradual renunciation
of these lower levels, by
embodying, at these lower levels,
the higher; becoming more and
more what one essentially is as a
soul." Benjamin Creme
"Under the great Law of Rebirth
we undertake that journey again
and yet again, until at last we
enter into the Light of our own
understanding as self-perfected
Sons of God." The Master --
Quotes on karma
"Each soul enters the world
strengthened by the victories or
weakened by the defects of its
past lives. Its place in this
world is determined by past
virtues and shortcomings."
Origen
"Karma is the eternal assertion
of human freedom. Our thoughts,
our words and deeds are the
threads of the net which we throw
around ourselves." Swami
Vivekananda
"...those who are looking on at
the tragic sufferings of humanity
and who refuse to be implicated,
and thus succeed in evading
responsibility as an integral
part of the human family, are
definitely storing up for
themselves much evil karma."
AAB/Djwhal Khul
"Reincarnation will gather around
him all those other Egos who have
suffered, whether directly or
indirectly, at the hands, or even
through the unconscious
instrumentality, of the past
personality." H.P. Blavatsky
"We should not be so taken up in
the search for truth, as to
neglect the needful duties of
active life; For it is only
action that gives a true
value...to virtue." Cicero
"The true understanding of the
maxim of the Christ, that what we
sow we reap, will transform human
existence in all its aspects.
Tolerance and harmlessness not
known before will replace the
present separation, as men
recognize the justice and the
logic of the Law." The
Master --
"Until mankind can extend the
circle of his compassion to
include all living things, he
will never, himself, know peace."
Albert Schweitzer
"Feed your brothers. Remember
that mankind is One, children of
the One Father. Make over in
trust, the goods of the Earth to
all who are in need. Do this now
and save the world."
Maitreya, The World Teacher
"We ourselves are responsible, by
our actions and thoughts, now and
in the past, for what befalls us.
There is nothing, moreover, in
our long series of incarnations,
to which we are not related. We
have made and are making our
lives. Our achievements and our
mistakes are ours alone and we
are for ever responsible for what
we are and do. A point that
perhaps should be emphasized is
that for most people the ‘good’
far outweighs the ‘bad’. The Law,
wielded by the Lords of Karma, is
not only just but forgiving."
Benjamin Creme
"...the offsetting of karma by
the imposition of willed choice
requires a certain detachment
from self-interest and the
capacity to focus on the
well-being of humanity as a
whole." Carrol Joy
"...what man has made he can
unmake. This is oft forgotten.
Karma is not a hard and fast
rule. It is changeable, according
to man’s attitude and desire."
AAB/Djwhal Khul
"To many the theory of rebirth as
a part of a process of evolution
is mentally satisfying — it makes
sense. The idea too of the
impersonal working out of a law —
that of cause and effect — makes
more sense than, on the one hand,
injustice and meaninglessness,
and on the other, hellfire,
judgment and
damnation. In a sense, living
with the idea of reincarnation
can be downright uncomfortable —
you know that you are responsible
for starting up a chain of events
which will make your immediate
future and will shape future
lives." Felicity Eliot
"People think of karma as always
from the past life, but what
about yesterday's karma, or the
day before, last week's, last
month's karma? It is this
succession of moments of action
and reaction which today we are
coping with, which tomorrow and
in our next life we will cope
with. Until we come into right
relationship with each other and
with the whole of which we are a
part, we will go on making bad
karma." Benjamin Creme
"The implication is that calamity
does not occur to some because
they have sinned more than
others, but that all of us have
wrong attitudes, and wrong
attitudes lead us into
misfortunes of one kind or
another. To change one's
attitude, to transform one's
self, is the whole purpose of the
many parables by which Jesus
taught his disciples."
Jeanine Miller
"There is nothing in your world,
either alive or dead, that is
worth being agitated about,
except the alleviation of
suffering." From: "The Boy & the
Brothers"
"The illusion that we are
separate from one another is an
optical delusion of our
consciousness." Albert Einstein
"As the person progresses in
love, in service, he is
automatically distancing himself
from the effect of events. The
events take place, but they have
less and less effect on his
psychology. In the East they say:
well, it's my karma. In France
they say: well, c'est la vie.
Gradually, we have to develop an
attitude of c'est la vie. If it
is good, easy: c'est la vie. If
it is hard, if it is painful,
makes us unhappy: c'est la vie.
We really have to live with that
attitude." Benjamin Creme
"In time...man will develop
that mental attitude which will
consider causes of greater
importance than effects; he will
then learn to consider with care
the first steps taken in
initiating any line of action,
pondering upon and deducing the
probable effects before
committing himself to any
specific deed." AAB/Djwhal Khul
"How do you get rid of karma; how
do you deal with it? Well, you
cannot give it away. It is too
heavy, nobody wants it. There is
no sale for excess karma;
everyone has enough of their own.
So what do you do, how can you
cope with this burden that limits
your activity, your joy and
happiness? There is a very simple
method. It is called service.
Service is the way par excellence
for getting rid of karma. Of
course it does not get rid of it,
but it burns it up." Benjamin
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