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Reincarnation On Trial
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Pythagoras, one of history's original teachers of reincarnation, from the afterlife, admits his error and repudiates this doctrine as gross falsehood.
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The following channeled information is given by P.B. Randolph in the work “Beyond The Veil,” 1878, via the mediumship of Frances McDougall and Luna Hutchinson:
Pythagoras in the afterlife offers explanation of the Reincarnation doctrine, as he was one of the first to espouse it:
“Only a few words will be necessary to settle this question; and gladly do I avail myself the opportunity to aid in quenching the false lights which ages ago I helped to set before the world…
“At length I became possessed of an imagined memory of preexistence, which I studied, pondered, and dreamed over, until it took the shape of reality, which to me was as genuine as any other fact I knew. Having a great desire to enrich and enlarge the boundaries of human knowledge, I believed this a splendid opportunity, and all my interest, all my powers of mind and heart, were turned in this direction…
“I held on to the new faith to the last of Earth-life but, upon arriving here, found that it [the belief in R] was held at a very low figure, I determined to investigate the matter, believing that all were wrong and that I was right…
“I have been present at many thousands of births, and probably as many deaths, scanning the conditions, both back and forward, looking for the links of life that follow or precede these great changes, but never have I found the least evidence for preexistence or a successive round of lives ordained to the same individual.
“I was compelled to abandon my pet theory, not only for want of evidence but because there is such a mass of evidence against it. It is unreasonable. It is contrary to all known laws of Nature. It leads the mind away from the true logic of events and experiences into false and injurious conclusions.
“And hoping to make some atonement for the mischief I have caused, I hereby distinctly declare that I disbelieve the doctrine of Reincarnation and repudiate it altogether.”
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