About time to catch up on questions:
Tom Wrote:
If a master were to overshadow someone will the original person (being overshadowed) have new gifts, talents, hobbies from the master or no new hobbies, but his skills and talents enhanced?
JJ
Think of it this way. If you have a new super smart roommate move in with you does this make you smarter than you were before or increase your talents? Not really, but it does give you some access to the guy’s intelligence if he is willing to share.
Ruth:
JJ, I have another question.
“56 And again, verily I say, let mine handmaid forgive my servant Joseph his trespasses; and then shall she be forgiven her trespasses, wherein she has trespassed against me; and I, the Lord thy God, will bless her, and multiply her, and make her heart to rejoice.”
Does this paragraph relate to a past life thing? It seemed out of context with the rest of what was being said, unless God already knew that Joe would be unfaithful?
JJ
This related to his life at that time and not his past.
First, we do not know for sure how much of the final revelation was actually written by Joseph and secondly he was believed to have had quite a few plural relationships by the time he wrote the first draft and this was said to have caused a grievance in Emma.
Stephen writes:
On that page you have linked to Ruth, I have got to ask, is God a Lawyer? No 7 reads:
7 And verily I say unto you, that the conditions of this law are these: All covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connections, associations, or expectations, that are not made and entered into and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, of him who is anointed, both as well for time and for all eternity, and that too most holy, by revelation and commandment through the medium of mine anointed, whom I have appointed on the earth to hold this power (and I have appointed unto my servant Joseph to hold this power in the last days, and there is never but one on the earth at a time on whom this power and the keys of this priesthood are conferred), are of no efficacy, virtue, or force in and after the resurrection from the dead; for all contracts that are not made unto this end have an end when men are dead.
Phew!!!! Amen
JJ
There is a correct principle given here and that is “All covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connections, associations, or expectations,” are generally dissolved at death. Then when we are reborn we start with a clean slate. Since you will generally have no recollection of any obligation from a past life you will not be bound by it.
The Mormons are in illusion when they think they made promises before they were born that they now have to keep. If you cannot remember a promise then you are not bound by it; therefore, people do not make promises unless they can keep them in their consciousness.
There are two exceptions to this. The first is if your commitment from a past life was somehow related to or caused karma. In this case you will have to pay it off and may be forced toward fulfilling a commitment that you cannot even remember.
The second is if the commitment had a powerful emotion behind it. This could be love or hate. Powerful emotion carries over into future lives. Have you met someone who you were instantly attracted to or repelled from? You probably had feelings about them in a past life.
Now it’s remotely possible that an advanced brotherhood could make some type of link by decree or a granted priesthood of some kind but I doubt that this is what happened.
Here is what would be more likely to be the case. Spiritual love is the strongest binding force in human existence. A spiritual teacher can recognize this binding force and acknowledge to the couple that their relationship will continue beyond death. However, this continuation will happen not because the teacher decreed or approved it but because of the binding power of love.
In addition the Molecular Relationship (which is not yet established) can create relationship which will draw souls together in future lives.
Rob:
If peoples’ personalities can be affected by the thoughtform centered around the old zodiac, then won’t newborns be affected by the new zodiac since mass-thought is now centered around it?
JJ
I’m not sure what you mean by an old and new zodiac. There is just one zodiac that is used by astrologers.