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Originally Posted by TVC15
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You claim that you also agree that a person has the choice to reincarnate or not. But in your other post you give a very long description about the soul waiting to be judged to either be elevated or remain at the same rank. Then you talk about the purpose of the soul to reincarnate. So I took it as you saying they get judged and elevated or the get judged and reincarnate. Seems as if they have not choice here which is in contradiction to your new post in that you also believe that spirits have a choice to reincarnate or not. Upon judgement, a spirit can either be elevated to a higher rank, or remain at the same rank, but never regress to a lower rank.
The sole purpose of a spirit re-incarnating is to learn from previous mistakes, and life existences, and advance in rank, until it has reached ultimate purity, which is necessary for it to ascend to what we humans call heaven.
This elevation into heaven could take many, many re-incarnations, perhaps millions of them to finally achieve the ultimate purity needed.
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Yes, but it is the decision made by the spirit as to weather it feels the need to re-incarnate.
Incarnation is strictly up to the spirit, and what life form that re-incarnation will take.
The purpose of judgement is to allow the spirit to make it's own decision as to when, and if it will re-incarnate.
The judgement of the spirit takes into consideration, not only the life it just left, but past lives as well.
Kind of what we might think of as a job interview, and our resume being analyzed.
Upon any judgement, spirits are free to do as they wish, when it comes to incarnation.
A spirit may decide to not incarnate for what we humans would consider a huge amount of time, perhaps hundreds of years before it feels the need to incarnate.
Until the spirit reaches that level of absolute purity, it , at some point, will feel the need to incarnate.
Now, that incarnation may not be in a human, but could be an animal, or some unknown life form we humans are not privy too.
Many times their re-incarnation may be a form of penance.
A penance served as "payment" for having not carried on a good and respectful existence in one of it's past existences.
I have studied this particular segment of re-incarnation because I found answers in it, that for a lifetime, had no answer, not only for me, but perhaps millions of others.
I would like to keep this post brief, but want to explain what this "penance" is, and what I believe is it's importance in our daily lives.
To begin, we are all aware what penance is.
A spirit that feels it was less than perfect in a recent or previous life existence, may want, after judgement, to make amends for that faulty existence,and chooses to re-incarnate to do it's penance.
At this point we lay people would have no idea how a wayward spirit would go about serving out a penance.
We on the other hand who have delved into the subject have a better understanding of how this is accomplished.
From what I know (and believe), spirits have the uncanny ability to know all there is to know about a life, be it human or otherwise, before that life is even born.
They know the trials and tribulations that life will encounter, and all that exist with it.
It is this precognition that will be the deciding factor as to what life the spirit will incarnate into.
Case in point; Let's assume a spirit returned to the world of spirits, was judged, and felt it needed to do some powerful penance for past sins.
In solitude,and deep thought, it is able to see future lives, and how that life will be.
For the sake of better understanding, let us assume the life it will choose is that of a human being.
The spirit is aware of the level of penance it feels it must do, so in this case, the penance is severe.
The spirit has made a choice, and it will incarnate into a human that will be severely afflicted for all it's life.
Perhaps at birth, this human will be blind, or crippled, or have a life long mental disability.
The spirit will incarnate,knowing full well the life it will live,and how long it will live.
Living this less than perfect existence will be it's penance.
I have often stated in other threads, my belief that all life forms are nothing but tools for the spirit, and as humans, I see how this plays out in the human existence.
Take for instance, a baby born blind, mute, or some other gross affliction.
Naturally as humans, we don't understand why this happens, and ask, how could a loving God allow this to happen?
There are those who would argue, the baby was born with birth defects because of the parent's DNA.
To that I would answer,not likely.
Those born with less than perfect working bodies are the result of a master plan .
A plan not for the good of the human species, but for the good of the spirits.
Some feel genetics play a role in what babies will inherit.
This is true to some extent, but there are exceptions, and when they happen, it is because it is supposed to happen.
If we were not tools, we would live forever in our physical bodies.
Like any tool, once it's usefulness has been depleted, it is discarded.
I use to question, and feel pity when I came across a person seriously afflicted to the point of being completely dependent on others for survival.
I know longer do that.
I feel it is a spirit doing it penance, and doing penance is a good thing.
This observation of doing penance speaks volumes when we question why so many things that happen to we humans are not understood, and leave us with only questions.
Fortunately some of us who have looked into this have a clearer understanding of just why many of these things could be happening.
Until someone can explain to me why babies are born crippled, blind, mute etc. I believe I have the better more reliable explanation.
Bob.
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I think we get put in a box and buried in the ground, and then our bodies slowly rot away, until only a few bone fragments still exist.
