REINCARNATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE
Baker Jordan
Many people express a belief in reincarnation. The Urantia Book explains the reason for
this false concept. If you are a pure reader of the revelation, you know that we move on
to the mansion worlds. This alone indicates that we do not return to the planet of our
origin. I thought you might like to have the following to assist in addressing this issue.
(This paragraph tells us logically the reason reincarnation came into existence.)
P.528 - §2 Although spornagia neither possess nor evolve survival souls, though they
do not have personality, nevertheless, they do evolve an individuality which can
experience reincarnation. When, with the passing of time, the physical bodies of these
unique creatures deteriorate from usage and age, their creators, in collaboration with
the Life Carriers, fabricate new bodies in which the old spornagia re-establish their
residences.
P.528 - §3 Spornagia are the only creatures in all the universe of Nebadon who
experience this or any other sort of reincarnation. They are only reactive to the first five
of the adjutant mind-spirits; they are not responsive to the spirits of worship and wisdom.
But the five-adjutant mind equivalates to a totality or sixth reality level, and it is this
factor which persists as an experiential identity.
P.953 - §5 The orange race was especially given to belief in transmigration and
reincarnation. This idea of reincarnation originated in the observance of hereditary and
trait resemblance of offspring to ancestors. The custom of naming children after
grandparents and other ancestors was due to belief in reincarna-tion. Some later-day
races believed that man died from three to seven times. This belief (residual from the
teachings of Adam about the mansion worlds), and many other remnants of revealed
religion, can be found among the otherwise absurd doctrines of twentieth-century
barbarians.
P.1029 - §1 The undue concentration on self led certainly to a fear of the
non-evolutionary perpetuation of self in an endless round of successive incarnations as
man, beast, or weeds. And of all the contaminating beliefs which could have become
fastened upon what may have been an emerging monotheism, none was so stultifying
as this belief in transmigration--the doctrine of the reincarnation of souls--which came
from the Dravidian Deccan. This belief in the weary and monotonous round of repeated
transmigrations robbed struggling mortals of their long-cherished hope of finding that
deliverance and spiritual advancement in death which had been a part of the earlier
Vedic faith.
P.1029 - §2 This philosophically debilitating teaching was soon followed by the invention
of the doctrine of the eternal escape from self by submergence in the universal rest and
peace of absolute union with Brahman, the oversoul of all creation. Mortal desire and
human ambition were effectually ravished and virtually destroyed. For more than two
thousand years the better minds of India have sought to escape from all desire, and
thus was opened wide the door for the entrance of those later cults and teachings which
have virtually shackled the souls of many Hindu peoples in the chains of spiritual
hopelessness. Of all civilizations, the Vedic-Aryan paid the most terrible price for its
rejection of the Salem gospel.
1646 - §3 Jesus further explained to his apostles that the spirits of departed human
beings do not come back to the world of their origin to communicate with their living
fellows. Only after the passing of a dispensational age would it be possible for the
advancing spirit of mortal man to return to earth and then only in exceptional cases and
as a part of the spiritual administration of the planet.
P.1811 - §5 There was, throughout all these regions, a lingering belief in reincarnation.
The older Jewish teachers, together with Plato, Philo, and many of the Essenes,
tolerated the theory that men may reap in one incarnation what they have sown in a
previous existence; thus in one life they were believed to be expiating the sins committed
in preceding lives. The Master found it difficult to make men believe that their souls had
not had previous existences.