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Reincarnation On Trial
| James Rhoades (1841-1923) English poet and mystic; author of "The City Of The Five Gates" (1913), writes: "Unanswerable, too, is the argument against reincarnation - a theory which always seemed to me to impeach the omniscience and infallibility of God.” |
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James Rhoades (1841-1923) English poet and mystic; author of "The City Of The Five Gates" (1913), the preface of which offers: "by conscious union with the indwelling Principle of Life, man may attain completeness here and now.”
In the preface to the channeled work, "Meslom's Messages From The Life Beyond," Rhoades wrote:
"Unanswerable, too, is the argument [contained in “Meslom”] against reincarnation — a theory which always seemed to me to impeach the omniscience and infallibility of God.”
From the main text:
“The believers in the doctrine of reincarnation — if limited to the earth — deny the infinity of God. To our earthly logic it may seem just and inevitable that the undeveloped soul be permitted to complete that development among the same earthly surroundings which saw its beginning, and also, that the earth which witnessed the sins and injustices of an earthly career should be the theatre of its punishment in some other earthly form, but this idea limits the power of God, and so denies God Himself.
“God is infinite, therefore He knows all, fills all space, and is all-powerful. In Him are all the attributes of perfection. His thought is life-giving. His love is life-sustaining, as His knowledge makes His divine justice. He does not need the earth as His only theatre for the development of man. He places man thereon in the first stage of his development, but when that man leaves earth he leaves also all the implements he needed on earth — he, the real man who is spirit or intelligence and indissolubly connected with the divine generator of life. Who is God.
“All the conditions of earth are forever outgrown. Can the butterfly ever again enter the cocoon? No, his life is in the free air. So our life after earth is one of freedom. We are still the same spiritually, but mentally we grow, and this growth permits the spiritual development. The whole universe is before us and our free will which guides us takes us ever higher, for as we see more clearly so must we progress. Progress can never mean retrogression. The earth is the cradle of the human race, but that is all.”
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