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The Gnostic Handbook Page 81
Rather than continuing to analyse each verse one by one, let me just give you a couple by themselves
to consider.
But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection
from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die
any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being
the children of the resurrection.
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth
the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Luke 20:35-37.
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of
Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;
whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 5:2
I think from these references it becomes quite clear that reincarnation was taught by the early
Gnostic Christian church and even though the Bible has gone through constant editing and rewriting
reincarnation still survives into the modern translations.
The Mechanism of Reincarnation
To understand the way in which reincarnation works we have to examine the effects of our actions.
Now, in generally held Christian views there is a belief that actions do not have an effect,
we ask for forgiveness and all is gone. This is obviously not correct, every action has an effect.
Even if the moral (and the If is big !) punishment was removed from an act by asking for forgiveness
the natural effect of that act remains ! (For example, I get Hepatitis from a heroin injection,
while I may be forgiven for damaging my temporal physical vehicle, I still have to deal
with the disease !) This process of cause and effect is found in many different traditions, in
some forms of eastern philosophy it is known as Sanskaras or Karma.
If a soul when it has entered the body persists in evil it does not taste the fruits of
life eternal, but is dragged back again, it reverses it courses and takes its way
back to creeping things and that ill-fated soul having failed to know itself, lives
in servitude to uncouth and noxious bodies, in this doom are vicious souls condemned.
Hermes.