REINCARNATION
So many have asked for a brief and direct, though comprehensive treatment of a subject that especially concerns all thinking people, namely Reincarnation, that it becomes almost imperative that we issue such a treatise (1949). However, instead of writing one, it occurs to us that since we have not found any treatment of this vital subject in clearer or more definitely organized form than in the four pamphlets issued by Dr. F. Homer Curtiss, our late beloved teacher and friend, we could do no better than to combine these four booklets into one and put this valuable information forth for the blessing of all who read it.
“Be worthy of death; and so learn to live
That every incarnation of thy Soul
In varied realms, and worlds and planes
Shall be one more step towards thy goal.”
No philosophy that purports to explain the circumstances of life, with their inconsistencies, contradictions, inequalities, seeming injustices, unmerited suffering and apparent success of evil, can give a satisfactory explanation of these conditions, without including the facts of reincarnation. Life cannot be explained without including this law. Reincarnation is therefore the only answer to humanity’s eternal cry of why? why? why?
Contents
- The Doctrine
- Three Theories
- Facts Explained
- Transmigration
- Testimony of the Ages, and Today
- Law of Cycles
- Law of Conservation of Energy
- Law of Cause and Effect
- Infant Prodigies
- Law of Recognition
- Law of Justice
- God not Responsible for Evil
- A Philosophic Necessity
- Scientifically Acceptable
- Morally Satisfying
- Why and How, Reasons for Reincarnating
- Major and Minor Incarnations
- Peculiarities Explained
- Changelings
- Law of Sex
- Misfit mates
- Parents Furnish the Body Only
- How You Incarnate
- Mental, Astral and Physical Bodies
- You Choose Your Parents
- Stages of Incarnation
- Length of Incarnation Set
- Death in Childhood
- Time Between Incarnations
- Special Incarnations, Doctrines of Avatara
- In the New Testament, Objections Answered
- A Christian Doctrine, Always Has Been
- Who was John the Baptist?
- Jonah as Peter
- Queen of Sheba
- Growth Demands Expansion
- Death a Release
- The Rhythm of Life
- Scientific Evidence and Physical Proofs
- Children’s Sayings
- Various Case Studies
- Plan Your Future Life
- Its Motive Power Great
- A Glorious Prospect
What glorious bliss it was at last to fly
Away from cloudy earth in liberty
And to approach the sun, whose golden rays
Surrounded us with roseate brilliancy.
Divinely fair is the eternal dawn,
Which greets the first ascension of the soul.
Its wondrous splendour mirrors faintly forth
The great Creator’s own magnificence.
Praise, glory and thanksgiving unto God,
Who made the sun—an emblem of Himself.
The human eye cannot endure its radiance;
When spirits lift their glance to it they tremble
And reverently bend in adoration
Of that sun’s origin, the Source of Life.
Man can by virtue of his thoughts create
A tiny world of beauty for himself.
The thoughts of God gave birth to lustrous heavens;
The stars are a reflection of His glory.
Life, Love and Light compose the Trinity.
A myriad sparks proceeded from that source.
Each spark must grow till it becomes a flame,
Which through Eternity will not be quenched.
How is the soul to grow? Through sorrow only,
For grief makes man grow greater than himself.
Affliction winnows tares from out the wheat . . . .
The wheat grows up …. It is the crop of God.
Behold the drops of rain, which fall from heaven;
They mingle briefly with the dust of earth,
Until the sun recalls them from the clay,
And lifts each sparkling drop up to the skies.
So shall at last each wand’ring soul return
Unto the Source of Life from which it flowed,
There to enjoy communion with the Christ
And merge in perfect unison with God.
There is no Paradise of idle rest,
Where blessed spirits dwell in aimless joy.
The highest goal to which we can aspire
Is to resemble God. To reach that end
We struggle upwards through a million years
Eternal hope brings us eternal joy:
We paradise create within our breast.
To ey’ry spot on earth where prayers rise
We quickly fly and carry them to heaven,
Descending swift with blessing from above.
We watch in patience by the bed of pain
And guide the faltring steps of infant souls;
We fill the poet’s dreams with wondrous beauty,
And bid him hear a strain of angels’ songs.
His silent sobs we melt in harmony . .
His highest thought is but a gift from us.
Say! Can there be a fairer paradise?
Can mortals dream a joy exceeding ours?
Like Christ, we always sacrifice ourselves,
Yet keep eternally more than we give.
