Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY ELI
BUT go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at
the end of the days.-Dan. xii. 13.
This was told Daniel in a vision when a certain man appeared before him, whose
face was as the appearance of lightning. [see Dan. 10. 6.]
32 5 HIS extract from the Scriptures verifies to
all believers of the Holy writ, that reincarnation
of mind, or soul, is advanced as
a known truth. But we as enlightened
men and women cannot
admit
as a truth
the unknown. To say that A or B has returned to bodies
of flesh and blood after having left them in preceding
ages, and that they have now become C and D is an error.
It is an injurious statement and is very misleading.
It may not be advanced with the intention of deceiving
others; but whatever we write should be subservient to
evidence; either from our own soul-experiences, or from
the evidences which can be drawn from all nature. We
should first ascertain the principles upon which all valid
reasonings depend, before we draw our conclusions.
To announce that C and D were A or B at the time of
Moses or the prophets, or some other eminent personality
of the past is erronious. Some theosophical thinkers
claim to know thru the akasic records the 'identity of a
soul in its previous incarnations.
This, we think, is the
result of speculation and meditation upon a subject or
personality, thereby causing the image and name of the
ancient soul to present itself to the imagination of the