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Reincarnation On Trial

Can the soul be individuated more than once?

 


 

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In the previous article we considered Swedenborg's comment that one's essential gender identity is rooted in the soul not in biological anatomy.

Can the soul be individuated more than once?

If this were true, if the soul is like silly-putty easily recast, then, case in point, if one were to be reconstituted with opposing gender, one's essential self in the previous incarnation would have been totally lost forever.

In the channeled book, "A Wanderer In The Spirit Lands," Franchezzo's friend and guide on the other side asserts that the soul can be individuated only once:

To originate a thought or to impress your thoughts upon another requires the possession of an intelligent soul germ or spark of the divine essence, and once this has been given the being becomes possessed of an independent individuality it can never again lose… once endowed with soul life it can never cease to exist, and, in existing, must retain the individuality of its nature and the responsibility of its actions.

This is alike true of the human soul and the intelligent soul principle as manifested in the animals or lower types of soul existence. Wherever you see the power to reason and to act upon such reasoning manifested either in man, the highest type, or in animals, the lower type, you may know that a soul exists, and it is only a question of degree of purity of soul essence.

We see in man and in the brute creation alike a power of reasoning intelligence differing only in degree, and from this fact the [philosophical] school of thought to which I belong draws the inference that both alike have a conscious individual immortality, differing, however, in the type and degree of soul essence, animals as well as men having an immortal future for development before them.

What are the limits of the action of this law we cannot pretend to say but we draw our conclusions from the existence in the spirit world of animals as well as men who have alike lived on earth, and both of whom are found in a more advanced state of development [in Summerland] than they were in their earth existences.

Editor's note: See extensive excerpts from Franchezzo's book on the "Dark Realms" page.