| Answer
from Jesus:
I am bringing up
the concept of reincarnation because I want all of my followers to consider
this topic. Let me give you the reasons why I consider this topic important.
The concept of reincarnation can explain many of the questions that
Christians so far have been unable to answer. If you will contemplate
this concept and consider how it applies to some of the questions you
have about life and God, you will find many answers in your heart.
When I look at modern Christianity, I see so many people who have made
a sincere and devout effort to follow my teachings through the outer
scriptures and the outer churches. Yet, because the outer scriptures
do not contain the keys to my inner teachings, people have numerous
questions that seemingly have no answers. Because of these unanswered
questions, many Christians have a very deep, and often unrecognized,
anger and resentment towards me and towards God.
Many Christians feel that the mission of Jesus Christ was somehow a
slap in the face of humanity. The reason being that orthodox Christianity
holds up a goal, yet it provides no clearly defined path to reaching
that goal. The goal held up by orthodox Christianity is eternal life,
yet orthodox Christianity does not provide a logical path to attaining
that eternal life.
I hope you can now realize that the main reason why orthodox Christianity
does not provide the path to eternal life is that the teachings of individual
Christhood have been removed. The only key to eternal life is individual
Christhood.
To return to the idea of reincarnation, let me say that this idea can
help you answer many of your unanswered questions. For example, many
people have seen children who were born with severe handicaps, be they
mental, emotional or physical.
If you do not believe in reincarnation, your only option is to reason
that God wanted the soul to be born that way. You are then left to wonder
why God would want a soul to come into the world, into what is supposedly
the soul’s only lifetime, with such a severe handicap. When you
add the concept of punishment, promoted by the orthodox church, you
are left to reason that God must have wanted to punish that soul. Yet,
how could at just and loving God want to punish a soul who had not even
had the opportunity to sin?
When you accept the concept of reincarnation, you see an explanation.
Every human being has lived before. Therefore, the conditions you experience
in this life are the effects of causes that you personally set in motion
in previous lives. In its pure form, the concept of reincarnation does
not incorporate the idea of punishment. Let me explain this in greater
detail.
A safety mechanism
When God created the world, God said: “Let there be light.”
Light is simply energy. Everything in the entire world of form is made
from God’s energy. Therefore, everything you do is done with God’s
energy.
God has given you free will , and you can decide what to do with God’s
energy. However, it simply would not be just to create a universe in
which beings with free will could do anything they wanted regardless
of the consequences it had for others. Therefore, God has created the
law of cause and effect. This law states that the energy that you send
out into the universe will inevitably be returned to you.
The law of cause and effect is a completely impersonal law. It is as
impersonal as the law of gravity. If you jump out of an airplane without
a parachute, the law of gravity will cause you to fall to earth and
die. Your death is not the punishment of an angry God. Your death is
the impersonal consequence of a natural law which causes all objects
to fall to earth. The law of cause and effect, or the law of karma as
it is called in the East, was not created because God has a desire to
punish human beings. It was created as a safety mechanism to prevent
the misuse of free will.
In reality, the law of cause and effect is a substitute teacher.
I have already told you that the Garden of Eden was a schoolroom designed
to prepare your soul for life in the material universe (see the Teachings
section). The God in the Garden of Eden was not God in the ultimate
sense of the word. It was a representative of God, namely a spiritual
being who had volunteered to act in the capacity of teacher. I also
told you that a number of souls, after eating the forbidden fruit, decided
to hide from their teacher.
When God created the universe, God desired that all souls should always
be part of the chain of hierarchy, the Guru-chela relationship. In other
words, no soul would be left to its own devices; all souls would have
the loving guidance of a spiritual teacher. However, God also gave all
souls free will, and therefore God realized that some souls might use
that free will to turn away from the spiritual teacher. If a soul turns
away from the spiritual teacher, then there has to be some mechanism
that could act as a substitute teacher.
If a soul rejects the spiritual teacher, how can the soul possibly learn?
It can learn through the law of cause and effect. This law states that
the material universe is simply a mirror that mirrors back to you whatever
you send out.
If you send hatred into the universe, that energy of hatred will be
returned to your own doorstep. If you send love into the universe, the
universe will send love back to you. The Garden of Eden was the school
of loving, spiritual guidance. The law of cause and effect is the school
of hard knocks. That is why the Old Testament required an eye for an
eye and a tooth for tooth. This law was given to people in such a low
state of consciousness that they were not able to understand a higher
law.
The law of cause and effect
The law of cause and effect is designed to teach you by making you experience
the consequences of your actions. When you commit an act, the act itself
starts a chain reaction. Your action sends an energy impulse into the
universe, and that energy impulse will inevitably be returned to you.
However, because of the mechanics of the material universe, which modern
science will someday explain, it takes time before the energy returns
to you. Imagine that a person kills another human being, but the person
is never identified as the murderer. Therefore, the person does not
receive an earthly punishment for his actions. The person dies of old
age without experiencing any consequences. If that person had only one
lifetime, he would get away with murder.
In other words, if people had only one lifetime on earth, God would
have given an unfair advantage to those who were willing to lie and
cheat. If you were a liar, you could escape punishment for the most
horrendous acts, as long as those acts were not discovered by other
human beings. By setting up the law of cause and effect, God has rectified
this seeming injustice. God has ensured that no one could ever escape
the consequences of their actions. However, in most cases people will
not experience those consequences until a future lifetime.
One might reason that the delay of consequences makes it more difficult
to learn your lessons. Would it not be better if the universe somehow
struck you with a bolt of lightning at the very moment you committed
a sin? Yet, this line of reasoning is applicable only if you have no
knowledge of the law of cause and effect. Such ignorance was never God’s
intention.
God wanted people to know that they can never escape the consequences
of their actions. Furthermore, if you only had one lifetime on earth,
and if you committed an act that caused the universe to kill you, then
you would have aborted your opportunity to learn. Therefore, God has
created a delayed response, and in reality this is an act of mercy.
You see, the delayed return of your karma opens up the possibility that
God, through his mercy and grace, could prevent you from suffering the
consequences of your actions.
To fully understand this, you must let go of the age-old human idea
that God is an angry God who wants to punish you for any transgression
of his law. In reality, God is a loving God who only wants to see you
grow in your Christhood. Therefore, God has only one desire and that
is to see you learn your lessons in life.
By delaying the return of the consequences of your actions, God opens
up the possibility that if you truly learn your lesson, and abandon
the state of consciousness that caused you to commit a wrong action,
then you do not have to suffer the consequences of that action.
The moment you commit a wrong act, you send an energy impulse into the
universe. However, if you fully realize that your act was wrong and
therefore rise to a higher level of consciousness in which you would
never have committed that act, then there is absolutely no purpose in
you suffering the consequences of that act.
God does not want to punish you; God wants you to learn.
If you have learned your lesson, there is no purpose in holding back
your growth by requiring you to suffer unpleasant consequences. In other
words, if you learn your lesson before the energy impulse is returned
to you by the universe, God can, through his grace and mercy, consume
that energy impulse before it hits you in a future lifetime. In many
cases, God allows one of your spiritual brothers and sisters to bear
that burden, to bear that karma, for you.
However, if you do not learn your lesson, then God will allow the universe
to return the energy impulse to you. Therefore you receive a second
opportunity to learn (the hard way).
I am aware that many people will say: “Well how can people learn
from a disaster when they have no idea it was the result of their own
actions?” This is a valid concern, yet it really has no bearing
on God and God’s design of the universe. God has created the law
of cause and effect, and God has given forth numerous religions that
teach people about the law of cause and effect. The fact that some people
have chosen to ignore God’s teachings on the law of cause and
effect really isn’t God’s responsibility. It is an inevitable
consequence of the fact that some people continue to misuse their free
will.
God desired everyone to always have the loving guidance of a spiritual
teacher. When people turned their backs on the spiritual teacher and
descended into the material universe, God did not leave them comfortless.
God gave forth spiritual teachings that explained the conditions that
people face in this world. If people decide to ignore even these teachings,
then God has no option left but to let the law be their teacher.
God can only hope that people will someday begin to wonder why certain
things are happening to them. Perhaps they will one day consider that
it is their own actions that are leading to the conditions they experience.
Perhaps humanity will one day realize that they are in the process of
destroying themselves, and that it is up to them to change this downward
spiral. God cannot do anything to change the situation without violating
people’s free will, and God respects that free will.
The school of hard knocks
Another reason why the law of cause and effect is an effective teacher
is that when people have lost the direct contact with a spiritual teacher,
they often learn only through experience. For example, imagine a person
who is born to be the king of a country in medieval Europe. The king
abuses his power and treats his subjects very poorly. He lives in extravagant
luxury while his subjects live in abject poverty. The king lives in
his beautiful palace, and has no idea how his subjects are suffering.
Therefore, the soul of the king will not learn anything about the consequences
of his actions.
Yet, the law of cause and effect will require that the soul of this
king must, in some future lifetime, experience the situation from the
opposite side. In other words, the king must be born as the subject
of another tyrannical king. By going through a direct experience of
the consequences of its former actions, the soul has an opportunity
to learn, and therefore it might choose to abandon the state of consciousness
that leads to selfishness.
Obviously, some souls have a hard time learning this simple lesson.
Therefore, they keep incarnating in the same outer circumstances over
and over before they finally learn the lesson and move on to better
circumstances. Yet, if such a soul was willing to turn to a spiritual
teaching and a spiritual teacher, the soul could quickly learn the lesson
that selfishness never leads to growth. The soul might even learn the
final lesson that it must abandon the entire consciousness of the carnal
mind and embrace the consciousness of the Christ mind.
I am Jesus Christ, and I gave my life to bring forth the teachings about
the Christ consciousness. The spiritual teachers who are my brothers
and sisters have also attempted to bring forth these same teachings
in various contexts. In fact, no human being has ever lived on planet
earth without having access to some form of spiritual teachings.
I admit that because of the existence of a power elite and because of
the relativity of the carnal mind, many people did not have access to
a pure spiritual teaching. Yet, there was always something that the
soul could use as a stepping stone to a higher understanding of life.
If the soul had been willing to use what was available, and then look
beyond the outer teachings, the soul would indeed have received higher
teachings from within.
The essential message that I want to get across is that God has done
everything possible to make it easy for you to learn the one lesson
that you need to learn in life. Yet, the relativity of the carnal mind
is endless. It can think up an infinite variety of excuses for not accepting
or following the true spiritual teachings.
God has given you free will, and is up to you to choose whether you
will follow the true way that originates from the spiritual hierarchy
of light or whether you will follow the false way, the way that seems
right to the carnal mind.
Before I leave the topic of reincarnation, let me give you one more
reason why I want my followers to consider this concept.
I want you to consider reincarnation, because reincarnation is reality.
When I appeared on earth, I knew my Father’s law, and I taught
that law to my followers. I never wanted the Christian churches to take
away the keys to knowledge.
Therefore, I say to those authorities in the orthodox churches who have
taken away the concept of reincarnation: “Woe onto ye lawyers,
for you have taken away the keys to knowledge. You entered not in yourselves,
and those that would enter, ye hindered. Therefore, I know you not.”
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