LESSON NUMBER 30 REINCARNATION

We now approach the most difficult of all subjects, the idea of reincarnation. Reincarnation is difficult to explain to people of this age because the concepts of this age in the unfolding of man are still too primitive for anyone to comprehend many facts of Nature which are beyond their limited range of sensing. That extremely limited range of sensing of this early stage of man’s unfolding is his great handicap to comprehension of this principle.

When people say casually to me: “Do you believe in reincarnation? Please tell me about it”, I shudder at the task for it is impossible to explain reincarnation to anybody whose concepts of bodies, and life and death of bodies, are what people of the present age think they are.

Many of the previous lessons were written to build new concepts of Nature’s workings which would make this most obvious fact of Nature understandable. In these lessons we made it clear that all bodies, whether thought bodies, or material bodies–such as sounds, animals, suns or galaxies are but light-waves. The lesson previous to this was devoted entirely to the purpose of building new concepts, such as the duality of bodies, as a basis for a better understanding of the as yet unknown facts of reincarnation.

These new concepts of the polarization of bodies into concentrated and decentrated, visible and invisible pairs which interchange their polarity forever in repetative cycles are first steps in peering behind the scenes of God’s workshop where the making of bodies takes place. It will be necessary to describe how God builds visible bodies by transforming them from their invisible counterparts, and then reverses that process so that visible ones again become invisible. Science has suspected that such a process exists, but has not yet become able to solve it.

Science merely says: “Matter seemingly emerges from space and is then swallowed up by space, but it may be that man will never be able to solve this great mystery of the creative process of matter.” We will slowly build up a complete explanation of this process of Nature.

THE ILLUSION OF DISAPPEARANCE AND REAPPEARANCE

1. Consider this thought. Place a glass of water on your garden wall some sunny morning. When you go to see it in the afternoon that body of water is not there.

You do not say that the water is dead. You say it has disappeared, and you know WHY it has disappeared, and WHERE it is. You know that it has but changed its polarity from its positive dense condition to its expanded negative condition. That visible body of water which occupied six cubic inches has evaporated into a large body of invisible vapors which now occupy a space of six thousand cubic inches.

You know that even though that body of water has disappeared it does not cease to exist. You know that it still has a body–not the same kind of body–not one which you could drink or wash your hands in–but still it has a body. It might even become visible as a cloud, and disappear again.

You never think of it as having ceased to be, for you know it will come again when cold air contracts it to its dense concentrative polar condition.

When rain fills that empty cup you can say that it has repeated its condition as water. Then when it again becomes vapor you can again say that it has repeated its condition as vapor.

If you totally disregard the thought of repetition of its two opposite conditions and substitute the thought of the eternal continuity of that body of water which forever appears within the range of your vision, then disappears beyond that range for an interval before it again reappears, you will have taken the first simple step toward a comprehension of the sequential interchange of visible bodies with their invisible counterparts.

That realization is what I must now impress upon you until you fully realize that each interval of time between the disappearance and reappearance of any body is not a discontinuance of the body–it is merely a “blackout” of your senses. When things disappear from your vision, or your hearing, they have not ceased to be. They are not “dead”. And when they reappear within your vision or hearing they are not reborn into life. They have but again come within your range of vision or hearing.

Together with the above realization you must fix in your Consciousness that the Soul of that disappeared body still IS–and in that Soul is the same desire that created the disappeared body. That desire of the Soul to unfold the form of an idea will cause it to reappear, to again unfold, forever and forever as a continuity which is forever changing, but never ceases.

CHANGING SOUND BODIES

2. We must exemplify this thought to make it a part of our knowing. Consider, therefore a body of sound you create by talking. When the sound ceases it is not “dead”. You no longer hear it–but if there is a cliffside up the valley, and you have talked loudly enough, your voice will again be heard as it condenses into small waves by impacting against the cliff. It is the same voice, and the same sound continued out into its spatial counterpart. It is still living. It is a continuity of itself. It is the same sound extended from the point of desire where its body form was created. We call it an echo. It is just as appropriate to call it a mirror, for sound-waves are light which reflect light.

THE ILLUSION OF REPETITION

3. Consider this same sound again brought into appearance three thousand miles away by the condenser of your radio which shortens the lengthened waves to the dimensions created by you when you spoke them.

Again we say they were not “dead” when they disappeared three thousand miles away from their birth. They but disappeared from the range within which your senses were able to perceive them.

No matter where upon this earth you set your condenser to restore the dimensions of those sound bodies to their original wave lengths and frequencies you will hear those sounds again in their original pattern and identity.

If Churchill spoke them at their point of desire, Churchill’s identity was “reincarnated”-–or “reborn”–or “repeated”–wherever they newly appeared. It was the same voice –same pattern–same characteristics in every respect wherever re-condensed into reappearance.

CONTINUITY

If these facts are true to natural law we are not correct when we use the terms death–birth–disappearance–repetition–reappearance or reincarnation. How can we be correct in the use of such terms when we know that there is a continuity of such bodies –and that nothing has changed in them but their dimensions and their polarity?

Likewise, if their recognized identity and pattern was that of Churchill, who spoke them–or Paderewski, who played them–or Caruso, who sang them–why, then, should we question whether or no we lose our individuality when that body which we call John Jones becomes recondensed into its original pattern and dimensions after having “disappeared” beyond the range of our vision by the natural process of expansion and its consequent change of wave lengths and frequencies?

All bodies are the result of desire of Mind to create bodies. Desire of Mind is eternal–therefore all bodies are eternal in their continuity.

We should not even say that they are eternally repetitive–for “repetition” is suggestive of discontinuous intervals between each repetition.

When night comes we no longer see the distant mountain. Our range of vision does not permit us to see through the dark. In the morning the mountain reappears within our range of vision–but we do not think of it as another mountain, reborn, –nor do we think of it as a repetition. We think of it as a continuity, for the mountain has never ceased to be.

We could not see it because the short light-waves which permit us to see it in daytime reverse their polarity. They become so long that their slow vibrations shut out all objects from our eyes which respond only to short light-waves of high frequencies. In other words THE LIGHT WHICH OUR EYES RESPOND TO HAS REVERSED ITS POLARITY BEYOND OUR RANGE OF SENSING.

If we desire to know what happens to our bodies after death, and if we wish to thoroughly understand the illusion of reincarnation, we must first thoroughly understand what we mean by the term “reversal of polarity”. And we must also know what we mean by the term “cycles”.

WE EXPLAIN “POLARITY REVERSAL”, AND “CYCLES”

POSTULATE NO. 1. All bodies are continuous. They never cease. They merely reverse their polarity TWICE in every CYCLE of their eternal journey within and beyond the range of our sensing.

POSTULATE NO. 2. All bodies are expressed in cycles. A cycle is a continuous two-way spiral journey from the expanded condition of a body to its opposite compressed condition, and back again to its expanded condition.

A most familiar example of a cycle is DAY and NIGHT. Each is the opposite half of the other.

POSTULATE NO. 3. There are two points of rest in every cycle. At each of these two rest points each opposite condition reverses and becomes the other.

DAY is a contraction of light-waves into visibility. NIGHT is a reversal of the cycle. Light-waves expand and become invisible.

In other words a cycle is that journey in every wave which the crest of the wave takes to become its trough, and back again to its crest.

A cycle of thought is a concentrated thought-body followed by its decentration into indefinite form.

It is the action and reaction piston stroke of the universal pump which is the heartbeat of God’s body.

It is a complete inbreathing-outbreathing of every body in the universe which eternally breathes in cycles of changing wave dimensions.

It is these breathing cycles which cause bodies to appear within our range of vision, then disappear beyond that range.

It is the point of conception preceding the birth of a man, through his life to maturity, then back to the same point of conception through his “death”.

We think of life as beginning at birth and ending in death. We have not yet learned to think of it as a continuity, such as the cycle of a piston stroke in an expansion-contraction engine–yet one is as continuous as the other.

At middle life our generative power reverses. We then BEGIN to “die”, just as we BEGAN to “live” forty years ago. At that reversal point our visible bodies BEGIN to manifest their invisible halves. They are still visible for another thirty or forty years before they pass beyond our range of visibility at that point which we call “death”.

Likewise they are still workable as mechanical bodies for many years after the power to pump our visible bodies into their dense forms weakens to the point where we have to give back to Earth and space all that we have borrowed from it.

I am often asked what happens if one is not allowed to live his life through, such as dying in childhood, or killed in war, if such a one is deprived of the advantages which those have who have completed their life cycles.

Nature balances all of her divided cycles. If the visible body “disappears” at twenty years of age it means only that, the whole life cycle is shortened. The invisible half of the body shortens its rest period to balance the shortening of the “work” period. The youth who is killed “reincarnates” sooner than he otherwise would.

Remember always that the time element in every cycle of every kind throughout all Creation is equally divided between its opposed halves. The two reversal points are equal. Action and reaction of positive and negative halves of polarized bodies are equal. Your inbreathing period is equal to your outbreathing period.

If a man generates his concentrated body toward “life” for ten–twenty thirty or fifty years to manifest God by “work” he must decentrate the other half of his body for an equal period to manifest God through rest.

That is law. The compression period of every cycle must be followed by an equal expansion period. There is no exception to this law, so that any shortening of any life cycle by destruction of one half of it is balanced in the other half.

The following lessons will make this principle more clear to you as we proceed with further unfolding of the continuity of the opposite expressions of life, which we wrongly call “life” and “death”. These are NOT TWO, they are ONE.

AMAZINGLY NEW CONCEPTS

Both halves of our bodies eternally live. They never die. There is no death in the universe anywhere, nor in anything. God lives. God’s universe is a living universe.

Our bodies “work” for awhile, then they relax, and rest, before working again. But relaxation is not “death”. The electric heartbeat of this living universe works for one half of its pulsebeat. It relaxes during the other half–but each expresses the continuity of life. Our bodies “work” at manifesting God during the positive half of their body cycle. They then relax–decentrate–into the negative half of their bodies to RENEW THEIR POWER to again manifest God through work.

Our bodies are electric records of God’s thinking.

God’s thinking is continuous–therefore the recording of God’s thinking is continuous.

God’s thinking is concentrative and decentrative. Concentration and decentration are opposite halves of the same thing. They spring from each other. They merge into each other. They interchange to become each other. They continue each other THROUGH each other.

There is no interval–no void–no cessation anywhere in the continuity of God’s thinking.

God’s concentrative thinking manifests what we call “life”. God’s decentrative thinking manifests what we call “death”. Life and death are opposite halves of the same thing. They spring from each other. They merge into each other. They interchange to become each other. They continue each other THROUGH each other.

And so it is with each pair of opposites in all of God’s divided universe.

Night is a continuation of day and dark continues light until dark again becomes visible light. Heat extends from cold, as cold contracts to born it. Cold then extends from heat as heat expands to born it. Each continues the other as each becomes the other. There is no gap, no void, to interrupt the absolute continuity of every effect of motion into its opposite effect. The CAUSE of all EFFECT is eternal. If there is any gap, or void, or discontinuity in EFFECT, CAUSE could not be eternal.

Our present limited range of perception has borned the idea of discontinuity in us. Our concept of “death” is one of the results of that gap in our range of perception.

FACTS OF NATURE WHICH ESCAPE US

The Soul is the fulcrum from which the polarized lever of motion extends to manifest a polarized body. All bodies are electric, therefore all bodies are polarized.

A polarized body means a body which is divided into two seemingly separate parts because of two opposite conditions which cause that seeming separateness.

The whole universal body is polarized. It is divided into compressed light waves of matter which you can see, and into expanded ones which you cannot see.

A good example of a polarized body is a storage battery. One division is compressed. The other is expanded. They interchange to find balance in each other. Man’s storage batteries can become depolarized, or “dead”.

Nature’s storage batteries cannot become depolarized. They cannot die.

Nature’s storage batteries are bodies. Every body in Nature is a permanent live storage battery. Every body consists of dense matter surrounded by the tenuous matter of space, such as a sun, or planet.

God is LIFE. In Him there is no death. Bodies manifest that which their Creator IS. They cannot manifest that which He is NOT. All bodies always manifest life. Bodies are as eternal as the ideas which they manifest are eternal.

The reason that a man-made electric storage battery can become “dead” is because the electric current which caused the battery to pulse is withdrawn. When the charging force ceases to polarize, the battery depolarizes.

God never withdraws the electric current of His motivating force from any of His Creating bodies. Depolarization is impossible in God’s ever living storage batteries because the pulsing heartbeat of every body is eternally “geared” into the eternally living heartbeat of God’s electric thinking.

That still point of desire which motivates every body is eternally present in every body. It is the Soul which centers every body in the universe from giant star to a speck of dust on a butterfly’s wing.

Let me recall God’s words, in reference to this thought, as written in His Message, “The Divine Iliad”.

“For behold, I am in all things, centering them; and I am without all things, controlling them.”

As these following lessons unfold you will more and more comprehend the portentous meanings of those lines of His Message.

Walter Russell, Sc. D.