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The Law of Reincarnation

from Continuity of LifeBy A.A. Taliaferro, F.R.C., D.D.

Copyright 1989 by A.A. Taliaferro

IN THE year 553 A. D., the doctrine of reincarnation was officiallybanished by the Christian Church. It was banished for no other reason thanit was considered to be too much of an influence from the Orient. Thedecision was intended to enable the church to increase its power at thattime, and to tighten its hold upon the human mind by telling people theirsalvation had to be accomplished in one incarnation and one lifetime, and

if they didn't make it, they would go to Hell.

The human mind today is beginning to unfold in such a way that thissimplistic viewpoint no longer makes sense to many people. Still, there aremany who depend on this idea for their devotional support and for afeeling of comfort. They feel that in order to fulfill this commandment of salvation they must accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Then, they feel,they will be saved.

The fact of the matter is that they will be saved, but not for that reason.They will be saved because they are already saved. They've never beenlost. They've never been "unsaved."

Religion today must be applied in life, and it must be scientificallyapproached. One of the things we need to understand is what happenswhen we go through the experience of having the life force leave ourbodies. As we go with that life force, our consciousness begins to identifywith the soul. It continues to be aware, identifying with the content of ourexperiences accumulated from many incarnations past. Once we can

consciously do that, we will then have some understanding of what thenext incarnation will be even before it happens.

Even at the present time, we can understand what the next incarnation willbe if we will use the powers of reason, imagination and mind to analyzewhat's going on now. If things don't change within us, and if we continueto let the things that are now happening go on within us and around us



without trying to understand and do something about it, then our sufferingwill continue into the next incarnation, just as the problems of one daytend to go into the next unless there are changes made.

The laws of reincarnation have to do with the kind of existence we willhave thousands of years into the future. If we could understand themeaning of reincarnation, we would be able to go back thousands of yearsinto the past. We would be able to understand how we accumulated, asindividuals and as groups, the ideas and the feelings which are now in ourconsciousness seeking to express themselves.

Just because we do not have historical evidence of civilizations that livedmore than 6,000 years ago does not mean these great civilizations did notexist. The earth changes. Physical evidences are covered up and destroyed

down through the thousands of years of time. Therefore, the place we mustlook for evidence of the past is in our own consciousness, and not inphysical things. The things of our consciousness are never destroyed.Ideas, inspirations, the great creative ideas of the present and of the futurehave been lying dormant in the human consciousness for many, manythousands of years. It is important for us to understand that these ideas arepresent in the minds of certain persons who know how to express them forthe benefit of the human race. This is really where the idea of reincarnationcomes in wonderfully and it is important for us to realize that the ideasthemselves are for the benefit of the human race.

The power of reincarnation is the power of fearlessness. If a person couldaccept the idea of reincarnation, his consciousness would not have the fearof life, death and the happenings of the times. We are absolutely paralyzedin half of our waking hours because we are afraid of what is going tohappen. Sometimes it is very subtle, but many times the fear is so powerfuland expresses itself so strongly in our economic, social and politicalsystem that it is almost impossible for us to understand how things actuallyare. The Bible is full of many statements about how to get rid of fear: if we

had more faith than fear, or if we had more love than fear, or if we hadmore understanding than fear. Fear is the great destructive power of thehuman mind — the physical, corporeal mind, as we might call it — whichis controlled by the reception of ideas and events from the outside world.Fear grows from the fact that we do not seem to have any control over thatwhich is going on outside. We cannot control people except through gunsor the threat to put them in jail or to take their jobs away from them if they



don't do what we want them to do. We are told over and over again (whichof course we don't believe) that love is the way the power of fear isdestroyed. Despite having been given the key, the human race at presentcontinues to be motivated by fear instead of love.

In the Aquarian Age the power of the sign of Aquarius is pouring outdivine energies upon the human race from the high consciousness of theperson of the Christ. Just as in the symbol of the man with the pitcher of water who pours out this energy upon the human race from a high level of being, this energy pouring out upon the human race can empower us toovercome our fears. We can cooperate with that great energy being pouredout upon us. It has begun to have its effect upon us in the past couple of thousands of years. For millions of years before that we were controlledalmost completely by the energy of fear, the instinct of self-preservation,

the instinct to go out and do what is necessary to propagate the race or toget food. The fear of not having food, the fear of not having sufficientmoney or power for the present moment — all of this fear has got to besolved in some way.

Fear could be solved in one fell swoop if we could accept the truth of reincarnation. The doctrine of reincarnation is the continuity of life,meaning that if we do not accomplish in this incarnation certain things thatwe have in our minds — our feelings, our desires, our hopes for the future— it will inevitably occur in a future incarnation. Just as, if you can't dosomething today, you continue to feel it and think it and work on it andmake it happen tomorrow, so a future incarnation is a tomorrow in the lifeof the soul.

The life of the soul is described to us by the person of the Christ and hisdisciples as the divine mind of God in human form. In the divine mind of God are all of the great ideas, power and energies that are necessary inorder for us to fulfill our life. Sometimes these ideas sound rather bromidicand commonplace, but the truth of the matter is that the power of creative

imagination is the technique by which this can be accomplished.Now each one of us has a different idea and a different incipient expressionof a certain goal in our individual group life from any other person. We areall different. There are physical differences, of course, but they all proceedfrom the more important differences that lie within the soul. These are thevarious paths we have taken from the past which have accumulated in each



of us different memories of wisdom and knowledge and experience. Thatwisdom and knowledge and experience is being expressed at the presenttime, if not consciously, then unconsciously through the energies that areradiating by means of the soul through the emotional nature, the mentalnature and the energies of the physical body. We can perceive this in themagnetic field which is around us and which can be extended indefinitelyinto space. If we feel strongly about something, that field is activated evenif we don't know it exists. Whether we know it or not, we are alwaysexpressing the power of the idea that is within us. If a person canconsciously do this, then he can cooperate with the soul — with the personof the Christ within us — in the great creative process by which the futureis being built.

Through reincarnation, the Universal Soul or the Christ will take large

groups of people and over a given period of time direct them to beincarnated in a particular place, such as Russia. The reason they areincarnated there is that they must learn the lessons that can come onlythrough experiencing the kind of incarnation to be had in that particulargeographical location, and in that particular group consciousness whichhas its roots in the history of the place called Russia. The soul of Russia,like the soul of any other group of people that can be extended into thepast, is the accumulation of knowledge, wisdom, traditions,accomplishments and ideas that have been contributing uniquely to thewelfare of the human race for many, many centuries. The soul of Russiahas also presented many ideas that are the means by which we have tolearn serious lessons as a human race. Different types of persons from allover the world are gathered by the Universal Soul and their totalexperience is incarnated within a few decades or a few centuries within aplace like Russia.

This is the real meaning for the existence of the United States of America.The United States is made up of people who have been reincarnated fromall over the globe. We are in the process of creating a new human race.

The new human race is not delineated physically. It is a new type of consciousness in which the person looks at things in a brand new way —from the standpoint of the soul. This is the life of what the Christianreligion calls the Holy Spirit.

By the work of the Holy Spirit in this tremendous development, we havehad experiences on the material plane in the past millions of years which



we've accumulated within our soul consciousness. Those experiences arenow brought together, not just in one person but in millions of persons,and these millions of persons are incarnated in a place called Europe or ina place called China or in India. Those accumulated ideas are going to beexpressed through the culture of the traditions of that particular location,and that will determine the effect of those ideas upon the people who areexposed to them for the first time. There will be many people incarnatingfrom the past who need to be exposed to those ideas in certain ways sothat these ideas can have their effect.

The reason we are brought together is so we can have influence on eachother. The soul knows this, and it arranges things so that we are broughttogether with each other in a sort of brotherhood, as the Christian religioncalls it. We are brought together for the purpose of benefiting from each

other's past experiences. If we can understand that, then we can alsobenefit from each person's creativeness, and we can understand that as anyperson creates, so we must appreciate it and let ourselves benefit by it.

Our usual reaction to a person who is a great creative person is to be jealous; if we can't do what that person can do, then we are not going tohave anything to do with him. This is what happened in the play"Amadeus" when Mozart became the butt of the tremendous jealousy of the person who prayed ardently for what Mozart was able to do. But whenGod answered his prayer, instead of expressing this wonderful thingthrough him, he expressed it through another person called Mozart. Theperson who ardently prayed for it and who had his prayer answeredbecame extremely spiritually, emotionally, mentally upset and jealous. Hetried to destroy the thing he had prayed for.

Now we do this all the time. The great teaching of religion is that we needto understand the meaning of the content of the soul so that we canappreciate it in anybody else. If it isn't being expressed that way in us andthrough us, then we can benefit from it and let it influence us so that we

can do the best in our way just as that person is able to do the best in hisway.

The law of reincarnation, therefore, brings us together and causes certainthings to happen. And whatever is happening in our life is the purpose of that life. People say over and over again, "I cannot discover what thepurpose of my life is." The way a person discovers that purpose is to look



at himself as he is, and see what's happening in his life. He asks, "Well,why am I having these experiences?" The purpose of those experiences iswhatever insight and growth may be happening through them. If theperson is questioning but still doesn't understand, then the purpose of theexperience is to teach him that he doesn't understand, and that he needs toapply himself in that direction. It all is very carefully demonstrated in thelife of a person whose simple existence is a mystery to him.

When a person's life becomes extremely complicated according to thelaws of the world, he most often does not have time to ask the question,"What is the purpose of all this?" He's caught up in a round of tremendousevents and he simply is forced to go through the motions of what theevents cause him to do. When we come to the realization of the greatspiritual power within us, then we can spend some time each day coming

in contact with it. Then we can spend some time understanding how it iscreating and projecting out, and by individual effort we can become co-creators. We then can have some control over our life by the grace that iswithin us that gives us the power to do what we can do. We can teach,even though we may not be professional teachers. We are prophets; we canimagine what the future is going to be and we can also help bring it about.We can in various ways be the expression of all kinds of talents and ideasthat, if we will imagine them and bring them forth, will have an influenceon untold thousands of persons. We do not have to express all of this in theways that modern people accept as successful. What we need to do is tolearn to think them, and to use the power of the creative imagination insuch a way that we can radiate the energies out from us and influence thepeople who are in control of things. And after we do our work, we simplyturn it over to the soul; we turn it over to the power of the Holy Spirit andwe let God do it. We let God have his way, then we become a co-creatorwith him of the life of the human race of the future.

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