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Lectures byCharlie Lutes
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The average person is led to the belief in reincarnation
because of some pressure of necessity within himself. When he reaches that degree in the unfoldment of his life where he needs a better and more complete explanation of his own existence, he will then in all probability be drawn toward the belief in reincaration.
The human has been taught to believe in a miraculous universe where the ways of God were never to be questioned by man, because these were beyond human understanding. Therefore, the human felt that God favored some and did not favor others. Belief in reincarnation, however, allows us to justify
a belief in an equitable world of cause and effect, and not a world purely of chance. Belief in reincarnation affirms that we unfold our various destinies, coming in the end to such conclusions as we have earned by our own individual conduct during our prior and present life spans here on Earth.
According to the doctrine of reincarnation all things are equal and have within themselves the means of growth and progress. Each life means that we should grow as much as possible. This is a lesson world and we are here to learn the lessons of human life; to continue to live in life until we outgrow human life.
There are no favorite groups or special classes in nature; the differences in social status are solely the result of causes and effect set in motion by the individual. When we
understand rebirth, we than understand that neither man nor God sits in judgement over human conduct, but that each human is a self-regulating, self-punishing and self-rewarding being. Everywhere in nature, effects follow their causes. A human living in one age would be excluded from living in a better age of higher lessons, by a one-life theory. No one in one lifetime can begin to learn what
he needs to know, to say nothing of putting what he has learned into practice.
By what reasoning would the unborn innocent inherit a world
of trouble and strife unless they helped to create just such
a world in a former life? We are only born when the field is fertile for us to be born. No one understanding reincarnation would help to wreck the world, because he would be helping to destroy his own future home, and that would not make sense, no matter how you looked at it.
If reincarnation was widely taught as a factual truth or Scriptural truth and so accepted, there would be much less crime, poverty, misery and suffering in the world. We would then know that whatever we do to anyone we have done this to ourselves. The acceptance of that one truth alone would change the whole world. The laws of humans are only shadows of Divine laws. We would also realize that a child after only one year in school is never graduated from the school. He comes back and back until he has mastered all that school has to teach, and then he
is given a diploma and then moves on to a higher school to finally go out into daily life in whatever field he has chosen - such is life.
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