LESSON NUMBER 37 REINCARNATION CONTINUED from lesson 31 UNLAWFUL BELIEFS

Legend tells us that we die and go up to heaven. There is an assumption, or vague understanding that our bodies take on some other body form, a more etheric, or spiritual condition of matter that is quite different from the matter of our visible bodies. Some religious cults call these spiritual after-death bodies, “astral bodies”.

It is even imagined that the matter of which our spiritual bodies are composed is so light that we can sit on clouds–and religious lore pictures our spiritual bodies sitting on clouds playing spiritual harps.

Heaven is supposed to be the space above the earth to which our material bodies “ascend” and become spiritual bodies.

In oriental religious belief and legend the spiritual body reincarnates and becomes physical again. In occidental religious belief the body dies and its “Soul” goes to heaven to remain forever. It does not reincarnate.

There is a scientific basis for the oriental theory of reincarnation but not for the occidental idea.

Imaginative cultist thinkers have created many strange and fantastic forms which still live high up above the earth in ghostly bodies which some call “astral”, or “spiritual”, or “protoplasmic” bodies.

Familiarity with bodies demands that these imagined forms resemble human bodies except for their lack of solidity. Hence these astral bodies have arms, legs, head and features like humans, only more ethereal.

There are many who believe that the spiritual bodies can be summoned to earth by a “medium” to talk to loved ones. Such bodies are said to appear fully clothed, with hair nicely combed as last seen forty years ago, who then engage in conversation regarding trifles of no import. It is strange that such believers do not think through to the root of things.

Of what use is a body, which is designed for an environment of earth, in an environment where its body has no possibility of use? God’s creations are purposeful, and God fits His creations to environments where they can manifest purposefulness.

How ludicrous and illogical it is to think of hair, fingernails, teeth, bones and flesh of even ethereal bodies growing for centuries in an environment where they would be of no purpose whatsoever. No bodies of any nature could be static. They would either have to grow or decay, for all bodies are material, whether “ethereal” or otherwise.

How ludicrous also it is to think of clothing remaining unchanged for indefinite periods, which must be that way when people claim that their mother appeared in the same black silk dress and white collar that she was buried in.

In their eagerness to create man-like astral bodies they do not think things through. If they did they would realize the absurdities of such unnatural conjurings.

There are many others who think of great humans as “ascended masters”. These spirit beings supposedly dwell above the earth and are presumed to guide the people of earth.

You should dismiss all such thought from your thinking, for they are but conjurings of the senses–not even of the Mind of man. They are not based upon knowledge. The senses alone have conjured them.

It would be a tragic and cruel thing if such things were true. How much more beautiful to KNOW that your loved ones may be back on earth, instead of floating around indefinitely in the sub-zero of space. Is it not more beautiful to think of your mother as being reborn into your own family, which is quite possible.

So many people think of rejoining their loved ones after they pass on. How impossible this would be. Suppose your mother died when you were a child, and you died at eighty. How would she know you? Also if that idea were possible she would seek her own parents, who also would have sought theirs for thousands of generations back. You see therefore that this is not only impossible but is a most illogical theory.

REINCARNATION–A SIMPLE ANALOGY

What are the actual facts about reincarnation,–facts which we can see clearly, not strain to see through a fog of abstract theories? Where do we really go when we die? What really happens after death of the body? What is that interval like between death and rebirth? Is there a heaven? Do we have some other kind of body?

The whole idea is quite simple when we understand the mechanism of the making of bodies— and of taking them apart to remake.

Perhaps a very simple analogy would help to clarify this idea. We show you a photograph of yourself, and ask: “What would you do if we tore up this photograph of you?”

You would answer: “I have the negative and can make another positive, so it would not matter.”

“How could the negative give you another positive?” we ask.

“I would project the sunlight through the patterned negative and the reverse of it would give me the positive pattern”, you would reply.

In principle reincarnation is as simple as that, and all of the above questions regarding what happens after death can be answered by the same simple analogy.

Let us compare the familiar principle of photography with the unfamiliar principle of reincarnation and see if one will not help explain the other.

Everyone knows that every positive photograph has a negative counterpart. Everyone knows, also, that the negative is the reverse of the positive. Also everyone knows that the pattern of the negative is reproduced (might we say “reincarnated”) exactly the same in pattern in the positive as in the negative, except that each is the reverse of the other.

Not only is the PATTERN of the positive reversed in the negative but every element which composes that photographed body is in reverse. White light in the positive half of the body is black light in the negative half. The right arm in the positive is a left arm in the negative.

EVERY CREATING BODY IS DIVIDED INTO REVERSED OPPOSITES

Do you not see polarity in this effect? And do you not also know that polarity is the division of ONE into a seeming TWO reversed opposites of each other which simulate the ONE? And do you not now thoroughly understand that every body ever created is polarized into its positive and negative counterparts, each being the reversed opposite of the other.

Now substitute the human body in place of the photograph of a human body. Instead of destroying the positive photograph of the human body, leaving only the negative counterpart, the human body itself is “destroyed”. It “dies”, we say. At any rate it has disappeared as a visible, positive body.

We now ask: “Where has it gone?” “It has disappeared, but has it ceased to be?”

No–it has not ceased to be. Its negative counterpart still exists, just as the negative of the destroyed photograph still exists.

All bodies, human and otherwise, are composed of spheres of white light surrounded by cube wave-fields of black light.

The centering body of spheres is the positive half of the body. The surrounding space is the negative half of the body. Together they make one complete continuous repetitive whole, just as the positive photograph and its negative, make one complete continuous repetitive whole.

The distinguishing difference is only that the photograph and its negative are two dimensional, while spherical bodies and cubes of space are three dimensional.

The photograph negative is flat and light penetrates that flat plane of zero curvature and reproduces a reversed body on another flat plane of zero curvature.

In Nature the black negatives of space entirely surround the white positives. If you look at the stars you will see the black negatives of space through which white light is being projected RADIALLY inward toward a center of gravity, to reproduce white star bodies at their centers.

REINCARNATION IN THE HEAVENS

If you look at any one of the stars for billions of years you will see it disappear, or die, just as you disappear or die. “What has happened to it”, you ask. If you wait long enough it will reappear. The negative has absorbed the positive, but white light will again be projected through that negative and will “print” another sun.

Scientists have long wondered how it is that matter seems to emerge from space and be swallowed up again by space.

We must make that mystery crystal clear to you, else the mystery of regeneration, or regermination, which we familiarly term reincarnation will not be clear to you, as it must be during these lessons.

BODIES ETERNALLY REPEAT THEMSELVES TO MANIFEST LIFE

Step by step we shall explain to you that what you consider to be your dead body is merely the fading out of the positive image of you into its living negative counterpart in the cube wave-field of your dual body. Every minute detail of the pattern which is your positive body still exists–and LIVES–in reverse in the cube of space which surrounds the conscious Soul of that body.

When we say that the negative counterpart still LIVES as the positive half has lived we mean JUST THAT. The negative still pulses within its own long wave sense range just as the positive pulsed within its short wave sense range. Moreover it pulses under the conscious control of its conscious center of desire in its Soul-seed which is as eternal as God is eternal.

Nothing can ever happen to that–even though many years pass before its regermination again occurs.

You must learn to think of the negative body as the thought-body–or thought-record of the material body. And you must learn to think of your thought-body in space as the reversed opposite of yourself.

You must learn to think of loved ones who have “passed on”–and all things else which have had material bodies–as but having interchanged from their positive to their negative counterparts–or from their material body to their thought-body.

Likewise, you must think of the range of sensing of thought-bodies as beyond YOUR range of sensing, as your range of sensing is beyond the range of sensing of thought-bodies.

And you must learn to think of one as ACTION and the other as REST from action just as your DAY manifests the white light of positive ACTION and your NIGHT manifests the black light of negative REST from action.

Translating this back to CAUSE, it is the eternal repetition of concentration followed by decentration which the thinking of Mind IS.

Nowhere in this universe can you get away from that. Mind KNOWS, and Mind-knowing is undivided. And Mind THINKS–and Mind thinking IS divided into concentration-decentration sequences.

You decentrate to conceive thought-bodies, or add to them. You then concentrate to MULTIPLY thought-bodies into positive, material body forms.

If the above paragraph seems strange to you it is because it has not yet been realized that positive material bodies of white light are but MULTIPLIED thought-bodies–and that negative thought-bodies of black light are but divided material bodies.

TWO-WAY THINKING

Learn to adjust your thinking to the way a pendulum swings–or as the piston of an engine alternates between compression and expansion. When you concentrate try to realize that you are but compressing your thoughts, and when you decentrate try to realize that you are expanding them for the purpose of adding to your conception.

Familiarize your thinking with the law of Nature that everything which unfolds from the seed in the womb of earth refolds back into its seed for reborning.

This fact you MUST realize, for that is Nature’s bookkeeping system. That is the way Nature records every thought and action of all Creation.

As the wood, and bark, and leaves of a tree unfold outwardly from the stillness of its seed toward the heavens, it simultaneously refolds inwardly towards its central seed. In the SEED is the eternally living SOUL of the IDEA which the body but manifests. The seed is an ultra microscopic focal point of DESIRE in the ZERO UNIVERSE. The pattern of idea is not in the seed.

The patterned body which that seed records surrounds it in space–a very large amount of space–miles of space for the seed of a man or tree–and millions of miles for a planet or sun.

The seed is the SOUL. It is desire in the Soul for creative expression.

It is the fulcrum from which the FATHER and MOTHER principles of thought extend to create decentrated and concentrated thought bodies, which gravitate to compress thought-bodies into centering spheres of white light, and radiate to expand them into surrounding cubes of black light. It is through the constant and EQUAL interchange between gravitation and radiation that this two-way universe of matter and motion continues its eternal interchange forever.

Gravity, in spiritual language, means the FATHER principle of desire in Nature for manifestation of idea in material form, through concentration of motion.

Conversely, radiation, in spiritual language, means the MOTHER principle of desire in Nature to record idea in expanded thought-bodies through decentration of motion.

Bear in Mind, however, that all bodies are thought-bodies expressed in reversed pairs, one half being concentrated, (or compressed) into visible forms, the other half being decentrated, or expanded, into invisible forms.

Bear in Mind also that thought-bodies interchange with each other each becoming the other alternately, as the pendulum swings to interchange its visible and invisible counterparts alternately.

Also bear in Mind that both halves of thought-bodies are moving extensions of the still Light of Mind as both swings of the pendulum are moving extensions of the still fulcrum which centers them.

The moment that any focal point of desire to create a positive body from a negative pattern in space “germinates” in the womb of earth something takes place which we call “growth”. The microscopic invisible point of gravity begins to multiply its body. It “grows” bigger and bigger.

THE MIRACLE OF GROWTH

Instead of thinking of it as something which is GROWING try to imagine it as a positive image which is being photographed into its positive form from the negative form which surrounds it.

Now try to think of it as a “time exposure”. Just as it takes time to project light through a two dimensional negative to print a positive so, likewise, it takes time for light-waves in space to “gravitate” toward the center of desire which the seed is.

Consider your own body, for example. It took millions of years of desire of your Soul to build your body, one little thought at a time,–one little desire at a time. You cannot reproduce it instantaneously, it takes time.

It takes about forty years for your negative body to “print” a positive one, and another forty years for the positive to “fade out” into its negative.

Light-waves built your body. Long light-waves came out from the dark of your wave-field in space and shortened into smaller waves as they built up the materials called for by the negative pattern of your body which entirely surrounds its center of desire in its eternal Soul-seed.

Calcium must be formed for bones–hydro-carbons for flesh, and many other elements of alkaline or acid base, or negative and positive polarity for other parts of our complex bodies.

In other words it takes TIME to project the timeless zero of IDEA into a three dimensional time-space universe of motion to build a negative and positive pair of bodies which eternally interchange to manifest idea of thinking Mind.

TIME is represented by waves of motion which pump–pump–pump expanded black light out of the cubes of space and multiply it into white light of solid spheres. That is all that is happening to you and to the universe. You are forever interchanging your expanded thought-body with your contracted material body forever and forever.

LIFE AND DEATH BORN EACH OTHER

That is all that Creation is. That is all that life-death is. That is all that your inbreathing-outbreathing is. That is all that growth-decay is. Both are one–ONE CONTINUITY. They are one pendulum which swings two ways from a still center–one wave lever which oscillates two ways from the fulcrum of the Soul.

Try to expand the range of your thinking to include what you KNOW as well as what you SEE. You SEE an apple growing bigger and bigger on the branch. Instead of just seeing the body of an apple growing–growing–growing from a bud to a matured red apple, add your KNOWING to your sensing. KNOW it as a body being formed by the white light coming from far out in space THROUGH the negative pattern of that apple which enfolds its positive. Think of the apple as a positive “photograph” which is slowly being “printed” as a reversed image of its negative record which reaches far out into space, and let your KNOWING reach out into that invisible record.

As you learn to thus expand your thinking include in your thinking your knowledge of the mechanics of that forming body–whether of an apple, violet, animal or man. As you SEE things growing bigger and bigger KNOW that the “matter” which is becoming a positive body is being pumped out of the ground by the white light of space.

Think of the light-waves which pump negative light into positive light forms as levers which oscillate from the fulcrum of desire which centers every forming body as its Soul-seed. Know also that the pattern of the body is determined by the black negative which surrounds the forming body in space just as the positive photograph MUST be the reversed image of its negative pattern.

Do not be limited in your thinking by what your senses SEE, for what your senses see is not the reality which your Mind KNOWS. Realize that your senses are limited to a very small range. They do not sense the whole of anything. For that reason you can have but very little knowledge if you base that knowledge upon what your senses tell you.

That is why you believe that you die. Your senses do not tell you of that continuity which goes on beyond your sense of perception. Your knowledge must, therefore, forever be the fulcrum from which your senses extend.

You must be able to KNOW the whole oak even though you see but its seed. No microscope could show you one leaf of the oak in its seed but your inner vision and illumined KNOWING can visualize the whole invisible oak extending from its visible seed.

That is what we mean when we say that you must rise above your sensing. Be the whole universe in your KNOWING.

The Divine Iliad Message tells us of the three steps of unfolding man in these six short words. “See Me. Know Me. Be Me.” The more we KNOW God the more we realize that the Soul which centers us IS God. And the more we realize that the more we realize that our power is as unlimited as the universe is unlimited.