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• Child prodigies are easily explained by the idea of reincarnation, as are the experiences of people who find a curious familiarity in certain places and lands. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• It has been said that the Church condemned reincarnation; this is false. A council has said though, that those believed to have returned to earth were not accepted into heaven; but far from condemning reincarnation this warning of the Council indicates the contrary. It was also part of the teachings that if someone returned voluntarily through reincarnation, not because heaven was displeased with him or her, but for love of their neighbor, the curse would not apply to them (Rozier). (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• Lastly, according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, who have kept much less of the occult tradition than the Russian Orthodox Church, a considerable span of time lapses between the judgment at the end of life and the final judgment? It is at that final judgment, according to Catholicism, that the soul is assigned its final destination. Until this moment the spirit can change, during this time between the two trials. And how does the spirit function during this time lapse between the two trials? You can appreciate that heaven, hell and purgatory are experiential states that can be lived in material form. This is what Swedenborg taught and Mohammed also, even though he had an aversion to all forms of traditional esotericism. Yet he indicates that he was aware of these things when saying in his chapter "The women of the Koran" that Christ would return at the end of time to judge between the living and the dead. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• Significantly the gospels tell us in plain language that Saint John the Baptist was the reincarnated Elias. This was a mystery and Saint John the Baptist, when questioned, kept quiet but others knew the truth of it. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• The Christian religion is a direct continuation of the Egyptian, and each one of the evangelists is represented by a symbol that is one in the four of the sphinx: the human head, or the angel, an eagle, a lion and a bull. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• The idea of reincarnation was contained in the secret teachings of the Church, as were many of the initiatory concepts of Egypt. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• The old Christian reincarnationists did not propose that mortal life on earth is the result of a diminishing of God's grace, or one's losing their love of God but quite to the contrary, that earthly life is imposed to evolve us and make us the masters of the material world to which, by the fall of Adam, we became slaves. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• The parable of a man blind from birth is another example. The suggestion that he was being punished for previous sins presents an interesting matter for reflection. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)
• This earthly existence would not mature without difficulties if it were prolonged much beyond a hundred years for reasons that it is pointless to address here, but a hundred years is insufficient to obtain a definitive victory. It has therefore been necessary to grant us a longer span of time, and that segmented by intervals similar to the intervals between the dreams of deep sleep and daydreams. Each type of dream may be called a death. Certainly each existence is accompanied by forgetfulness of those that have preceded it, but this forgetfulness is providential. It facilitates evolution because with complete memory it would be difficult to change on this plane of existence. When we have finally awakened a sufficient number of times to achieve the purpose of our efforts, the sanctification, we die one final time and return no more. It is then that we are judged finally and relegated to our place in heaven or purgatory. If, on the contrary, in each existence we descend lower and lower until we reach a point at which no hope of salvation exists any longer, we will die one last time and go to hell, but this is a most unusual occurrence. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)