UNIVERSAL LAW, NATURAL SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY

(The Russell Cosmogony)

WALTER RUSSELL, Sc.D., and LAO RUSSELL

A Home Study Course for the Transformation of M a n

UNIT X-LESSONS 37, 38, 39, 40 Copyrighted 1951

bv Walter and Lao Russell

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REINCARNATION CONTINUED

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UNLAWFUL BELIEFS

Legend t e l l s u s that we die and go up to heaven, T h e r e i s an assumpt ion ,

o r vague unders tand ing tha t our bodies take on s o m e other body f o r m , a m o r e

e the r i c , o r sp i r i t ua l condition of ma t t e r that i s quite d i f ferent f r o m the m a t t e r

of our vis ible bod ies . Some re l ig ious cu l t s ca l l t he se sp i r i tua l a f te r -death

bodies , " a s t r a l bodies" ,

It i s even imagined t ha t the m a t t e r of which our sp i r i tua l bodies a r e c o m -

posed i s s o light that we can s i t on c louds- -and re l ig ious l o r e p i c tu r e s our

sp i r i t ua l bodies s i t t ing on clouds playing sp i r i tua l h a r p s .

Heaven i s supposed t o be the space above the e a r t h to which our m a t e r -

i a l bodies "ascend" and become sp i r i tua l bodies .

In o r i en t a l re l ig ious belief and legend the sp i r i t ua l body r e inca rna t e s and

becomes phys ica l again . In occidental re l ig ious belief the body d ies and i t s

f lSoull l g o e s to heaven to r e m a i n f o r e v e r . I t does not r e inca rna t e .

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There i s a scientif ic bas i s fo r the or ien ta l t heo ry of re incarnat ion but not

for the occidental idea .

Imaginative cul t is t th inker s have c rea t ed many s t range and fantast ic f o r m s

which s t i l l live high up above the e a r t h in ghostly bodies which some ca l l

"as t ra l l ' , o r sp i r i tua l1 ' , o r "protoplasmic" bodies .

Fami l i a r i t y with bodies demands that t hese imagined f o r m s r e semble

human bodies except f o r t he i r lack of solidity. Hence these a s t r a l bodies have

a r m s , l egs , head and f ea tu re s like humans, only m o r e e ther ia l .

There a r e many who believe that the sp i r i tua l bodies can be summoned to

e a r t h by a "medium" to ta lk t o loved ones. Such bodies a r e said to appear

fully clothed, with ha i r nicely combed a s l a s t s een fo r ty y e a r s ago, who then

engage in conversation regard ing t r i f les of no impor t . It i s s t r ange that such

be l ievers do not think through to the root of things, -

Of what u se i s a body, which i s designed f o r a n environment of ear th , in

a n environment where i t s body has no possibi l i ty of u s e ? God's c rea t ions a r e - purposeful , and God f i t s H i s c rea t ions to envi ronments where they can mani-

fe s t purposefulness.

How ludicrous and i l logical i t i s to think of 'hair , f ingernai ls , teeth , bones

and flesh of even e ther ia l bodies growing for cen tu r i e s in an environment

where they would be of no purpose whatsoever , No bodies of any na ture could

be static. They would e i ther have to grow o r decay, fo r a l l bodies a r e m a t e r -

i a l , whether I1etherial" or otherwise .

How ludicrous a l so i t i s to think of clothing remaining unchanged for indef -

inite per iods , which m u s t be that way when people c l a im that the i r mother

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appeared i n the s a m e black s i lk d r e s s and white co l la r that she was bur ied i n .

In t he i r e a g e r n e s s to c r e a t e man- l ike a s t r a l bodies they do not think

things through. If they did they would r ea l i ze the absurdi t ies of such unna tu ra l

c onjuring s .

T h e r e a r e m a n y o thers who think of g r e a t humans a s "ascended m a s t e r s " .

T h e s e sp i r i t beings supposedly dwell above the e a r t h and a r e p resumed t o guide

the people of e a r t h .

You should d i s m i s s a l l such thought f r o m your thinking, fo r they a r e but

conjur ings of the s e n s e s - - n o t even of the Mind of man . They a r e not ba sed

upon knowledge. The s enses a lone have conjured them.

It would be a t r ag i c and c r u e l thing if such things were t rue . How m u c h

m o r e beautiful to KNOW that your loved ones m a y be back on ea r th , ins tead of

floating around indefinitely in the sub -ze ro of space , I s i t not m o r e beaut i ful

t o think of your m o t h e r a s being r ebo rn into your own family , which i s quite

pos s ib l e .

So many people think of re joining the i r loved ones a f te r they p a s s on. How

imposs ib l e th i s would be. Suppose your mo the r died when you were a ch i ld ,

and you died a t eighty. How would she know you? Also i f that idea were p o s s i -

ble she would seek h e r own p a r e n t s . who a l s o would have sought t h e i r s f o r

thousands of genera t ions back . You see , t h e r e f o r e , that th i s i s not only i m p o s - -

s ible but i s a m o s t i l logical t heo ry .

R E I N C A R N A T I O N - - A S I M P L E ANALOGY

What a r e the ac tua l f a c t s about re incarna t ion , - - f ac t s which we can see

c l e a r l y , not s t r a i n to s ee through a fog 'of a b s t r a c t t h e o r i e s ? Where do we

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real ly go when we d i e ? What real ly happens af ter death of the body? What i s

that interval like between death and r e b i r t h ? I s t he re a heaven? Do we have

some other. kind of body?

The whole idea i s quite s imple when we understand the mechanism of the

making of bodies--and of taking them apar t to remake .

Perhaps a ve ry s imple analogy would help to c lar i fy this idea. We show

you a photograph of your se l f , and ask: "What would you do if we t o r e up this

photograph of you?If

You would answer: "I have the negative and can make another posit ive,

so i t would not m a t t e r .

"How could the negative give you another positive ?I1 we ask.

"1 would project the sunlight through the pat terned negative and the r e v e r s e

of i t would give m e the posit ive pat tern", you would reply.

In principle re incarna t ion i s a s simple a s that, and al l of the above ques-

tions regarding what happens a f te r death can be answered by the s a m e s imple

analogy,

Let u s compare the f ami l i a r principle of photography with the unfamil iar

principle of reincarnation and s e e if one will not help explain the o ther .

Everyone knows that e v e r y posit ive photograph has a negative counter -

par t , Everyone knows, a l so , that the negative i s the r eve r se of the pbsit ive.

Also everyone knows that the pa t te rn of the negative i s reproduced (might we

say l1reincarnated'l) exact ly the same in pa t te rn in the positive a s in the nega-

t ive, except that each i s the r e v e r s e of the other .

Not only i s the PATTERN of the positive r eve r sed in the negative but

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e v e r y e l emen t which conlposes that photographed body i s in r e v e r s e . White

light i n the posi t ive half of the body i s black light in the negative half. The r igh

a r m in the posi t ive i s a left a r m in the negative. I

EVERY CREATING BODY IS DIVIDED INTO REVERSED OPPOSITES

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