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| Here's what a lot of famous philosophers had to say about reincarnation. | |||
We were in being long before the foundation of the world; we existed in
the eye of God, for it is our destiny to live in Him. We are reasonable
creatures of the Divine Word; therefore, we have existed from the beginning, for
in the beginning was the word.
… it is absolutely necessary that the soul should be healed and
purified, and if this does not take place during its life on earth, it must be
accomplished in future lives.
The message of Plato, the purest and the most luminous of all
philosophy, has at last scattered the darkness of error, and now shines forth
mainly in Plotinus, a Platonist so like his master that one would think they
lived together, or rather, since so long a period of time separates them—that
Plato was born again in Plotinus.
I can well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries … that
I had to be born again because I had not fulfilled the task Memories, Dreams and
Reflections given to me.
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six …it
was as if I had found a universal plan.
I am not only a mystic. I am also the reincarnation of one of the
greatest of all Spanish mystics, St John of the Cross. I can remember vividly
experiencing divine union, undergoing the dark night of the Soul … I can
remember the monastery and many of St John's fellow monks!
The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing, etc., nearly
drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is
that we shall be reincarnated.
I find myself in some scene which I cannot have visited before and
which is yet perfectly familiar: I know that it was the stage of an action in
which [ once took part and am about to take part again.
They will come back—come back again—as long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book,
its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food
for worms: but the work shall not be lost, it will (as he believed) appear once
more in a new and more elegant edition …. revised and corrected by the author.