BD.4590
March 17, 1949

THE DOCTRINE OF RE-INCARNATION - FALSE DOCTRINES - CELESTIAL BODIES

Do not be misled by supposed contradictions. Rather see the reason in the fact that you do not understand sufficiently, and there need not be a contradiction, but you only suppose it to be. It must be sufficient for you to know that I will not teach you wrongly. I will bring you this knowledge in such a way that it will benefit your soul.

The Karma teaching is not proper to urge you to a strong spiritual striving. It is more apt to bring you to a lukewarm spiritual walk. For that reason it is of little use for the soul and it does not have MY full approval in that you reckon with a Re-incarnation on Earth, and thereby become negligent in your striving.

The development of the spirit is certainly supported by ME in every way. When I see a good way of bringing your soul to maturity I will be ready to approve of it. Of course it must be according to MY Divine Order and not just to create a possibility. So you must understand that I will not direct you to a repeated path of development on this Earth, which, suppose that you failed in your former life. But I want to save you from failing, and therefore I warn, admonish and teach you in order to prevent a failure.

It would be a wrong way of educating to direct you to another path to reach your goal, while you still have the right way before you, and with a good will must and can go. The knowledge of it shall serve to make you strive higher and not to draw the wrong conclusions and become negligent in your efforts, in the hope that you will have another life on Earth, if you do not reach your goal.

MY Spirit will give you an explanation if you turn trustingly to ME. I give you an insight, through MY servants, to discern to what extent your thoughts are the Truth. If you knew of the endless possibilities of a further development on the innumerable celestial bodies in the universe, you would never come to the conclusion that the soul will be placed back on Earth again. Indeed, the soul, which has not reached maturity, must still go through many embodiments to prove itself and develop upwards.

The doctrine of re-incarnation of the soul is in a sense the Truth, but it does not mean that the soul will be born in the "flesh" on Earth. But it points to the many possibilities on other creations for a further development, where the soul can be given an assignment materially or spiritually which, by fulfilling this, assures an ascent to higher spheres.

When a soul repeatedly is placed on this Earth is an exception, to fulfill a spiritual mission and cannot be considered common. The immature soul which is taken away from this Earth will imagine itself still on Earth, believing to have been placed in a desert and unfruitful part of land, but in reality it is placed on another planet according to its maturity, with more primitive creations, which means for the soul a poor and oppressing condition.
This is an opportunity for purification of the materialistic soul, which has to overcome its desires, in order to be placed on another work of creation, to develop itself to a higher state, according to its will.

Because you love this Earth the word, "Re-incarnation" signifies to you that this Earth is the dwelling place for re- incarnated souls. You must realize that the exceedingly great creation work of MY Love is brought into existence because of the innumerable spiritual beings who have to go the path to perfection in one way or another, in the material creation as long as the soul is not yet spiritualized and receptive for Light.

And in spiritual creations, where also the spiritualized soul can develop still higher, where it can be purified more and more, and make itself ready to receive the emanation of MYSELF. Imagine for yourself the infinity, see the starry heavens whose innumerable stars are creations of MY Will of Love, determined to accept souls who need further maturity. You will then realize that the Earth is not the only carrier of beings who must strive upwards. Realize, it is truly not necessary for souls, who have failed on Earth, to be placed again on this Earth, though it is indeed the only station to reach the son- ship of GOD, but it can still not be chosen at will, and repeatedly, as a place to mature further.

So the doctrine of a repeated return to the Earth must be declared as wrong. It must be disputed and looked upon as harmful for the soul, because it weakens man's will and endangers the earnest change of the being by the expectation that it can make up for any neglect in a repeated life, until final perfection.

AMEN