Reincarnation and the Law of Karma: A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth by William Walker Atkinson

Author:William Walker Atkinson [Atkinson, William Walker]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781489587381
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Published: 2008-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

the doctrine of Reincarnation, the little babe’s soul was but pursuing the same path as the rest of the race—it had its past, as well as its future, according to Law and Justice. While, if the ordinary view be correct, no one would begrudge the

infant its happy fate, still one would have good cause for complaint as the Inequality and Injustice of others having to live out long lives of pain, discomfort and misery, for no cause, instead of being at once translated into a higher life as was the infant. If the ordinary view be true, then why the need of

earth-life at all—why not create a soul and then place it in the heavenly realms at

once; if it is possible and proper in some cases, why not in all; if the experience

is not indispensable, then why impose it on certain souls, when all are freshly created and equal in merit and deserts? If earthly life has any virtue, then the infant’s soul is robbed of its right. If earthly life has no virtue, the adult souls are forced to live a useless existence on earth, running the risk of damnation if they

fail, while the infant souls escape this. Is this equality of opportunity and experience, or Justice? There would seem to be something wrong with either the

facts, or the theory. Test the problem with the doctrine of Reincarnation, and see

how it works out!

CHAPTER IX.

THE ARGUMENT FOR REINCARNATION.

In addition to the consideration of Justice, there are many other advantages claimed by the advocates of Reincarnation which are worthy of the careful

consideration of students of the problem of the soul. We shall give to each of these principal points a brief consideration in this chapter, that you may acquaint

yourself with the several points of the argument.

It is argued that the principle of analogy renders it more reasonable to believe that the present life of the soul is but one link in a great chain of existences, which chain stretches far back into the past on one side, and far out into the future on the other, than to suppose that it has been specially created for this petty term of a few years of earth life, and then projected for weal or woe into an

eternity of spiritual existence. It is argued that the principle of Evolution on the

Physical Plane points to an analogy of Evolution of the Spiritual Plane. It is reasoned that just as birth on the next plane of life follows death on the present

one, so analogy would indicate that a death on past planes preceded birth on this,

and so on. It is argued that every form of life that we know of has arisen from

lower forms, which in turn arose from still lower forms, and so on; and that following the same analogy the soul has risen from lower to higher, and will mount on to still higher forms and planes. It is argued that “special creation” is unknown in the universe, and that it is far more reasonable to apply the principle

of evolution to the soul than to consider it as an exception and violation of the

universal law.

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