Many Books or One?
Question: Why do we need to have more than one life, or many lives? Wouldn’t it be better to just have one really good or interesting life and get it over with? For example, a good book is interesting if read at a good clip, but if one went through it at the rate of a crawl it would become boring. Therefore, it seems reasonable that we should go through life experiences in this world quickly rather than slowly over hundreds of lives.
JJ: First, let me point out that the analogy here is somewhat incomplete. Our whole existence on the material plane is not like a book, but each life is like a book. Consider this. How many of us would be satisfied to read only one book and then never pick up another one? The reader will have a burning desire to move on to other books, especially if the last book was a good one.
Many lives do not mean stretching one story for a much longer period, but it means that each of us lives through many stories. Some of the stories are interesting and some are so so, just like books we read in real life.
It is true that we live many lives before we become enlightened but that doesn’t mean that those lives are without meaning. Many such lives are very interesting and provide a wealth of experience to savor during the great pralaya. When enlightenment is achieved the life just takes another turn and new things fascinate the pilgrim as he continues his journey.
There are many more good arguments for reincarnation than against it.
One of the best ones is that without it those who die as children would forever be denied the knowledge of what it is like to live a full life.
Then those who do live full length lives die feeling that many desires have not been fulfilled and many accomplishments have not been achieved.
Here is a mystery revealed for you to ponder on. We do not have rebirth in the universe because God designed it that way. It exists because it is the only way for creation to be and the life therein to grow and develop. God and his reflections have to accept this principle as they participate in creation in time and space.
We have before us eternal lives on eternal worlds – worlds and universes without end. One life in some static finished situation for eternity would drive us crazy. Who wants to read The Wizard of Oz again and again forever, even though it is a good book? The only way to continue on the path of joy is to be born again and enter again and again a new kingdom of God with new challenges and a new story to write for ourselves.
Prime Directive
Reader Comment: I would suggest that far more prayers go unanswered than they are answered, and that for me is where so much of the frustration lies. Eventually, one is going to tire of asking. I do not ask questions flippantly; I ask only when I want to know something that I think is necessary. If I blanked my children as much as our Higher Selves blank us then I wouldn’t consider myself to be a good parent. If our Higher Selves do not know something, then let them speak, let them say “I do not know”.
Maybe if the communication channels were a little more open, and a little more trust was given concerning knowledge, then perhaps there would be a little less suffering for all and we wouldn’t need the 600-year holiday between each incarnation.
JJ: It seems logical to you that the Masters, Higher Lives and our own Higher Self should be more interested in helping us out a little and communicating more directly and consistently with us. If they really wanted to help it would seem that they wouldn’t make us jump through so many hoops to get a little assistance.
I’ll make a few comments on this trend of thought.
This thinking is correct if we are talking about physical-to-physical help, but we are not. Instead, we are talking about assistance that must be given through the soul of the person involved.
Now there was a time when the guides of the race walked among us and helped us on the physical level. This was necessary because even the highest among humanity was not soul conscious to much of a degree. Therefore, if the higher lives were to assist humanity at all it had to be on the physical plane.
At that time the human teachers could just ask the Masters (who they called gods) whatever question they desired and they received some kind of answer. It wasn’t always a complete answer, but it was something at least.
Then the Masters made a mistake and they helped too much. This caused a negative effect comparable to the story of the person who helped the butterfly escape from its cocoon and killed it because the butterfly needed to participate in the struggle of escape to survive.
Partially because of too much help the late great civilization of Atlantis was destroyed. After this the Masters contemplated their work and determined that they must be more careful in giving out help. They must assist just the right amount and not too much if humanity is to survive another cataclysm.
After civilization sprung up anew they helped again on the physical plane as related in Bible stories, but much less than they did before. Then came Jesus Christ and opened the door to soul contact for the masses. As disciples become sensitive to the soul the door was shut as much as possible to physical on physical help. It was determined that humanity would advance at the fastest rate possible if they placed their attention on the soul and the inner voice became the voice of God to them instead of an outside physical entity.
Higher lives are as available to contact as they ever were, but more participation is demanded of us than in ages past. The seeker must penetrate the veils that separate heaven and earth.
This has several disadvantages. The main was that very few people as of yet have consistent soul contact. But it has one overwhelming advantage and that is humans are forced to stretch themselves spiritually and seek the inner voice so they can become one with God in their own right.
When a critical mass of humans reaches soul contact then the earth will no longer be in danger of destruction. We will then become one of the few physical planets to have achieved the station of progress where we can move ahead and eventually become cultivators of other planets and assist in a greater creation that is in its infancy in this universe.
Beware of the man of one book – Thomas Aquinas
Nov 21, 2010
Join JJ’s Facebook group HERE
Easy Access to All the Writings
For Free Book go HERE and other books HERE