Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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No reincarnation of souls

Answering the questions of his disciples about souls, Jesus says, "You must not believe that the fact that souls have spontaneous recollections of Truth proves that we live several lives. By now you have already learned enough to be aware of how man was created and how he sinned and was punished. You have also been told that God incorporated a single soul in each man. The soul is created from time to time and is never again used for subsequent incarnations. This certainty would seem to cancel my statement concerning the recollections of souls. It should cancel it with regard to any other being with the exception of man, who is gifted with a soul made by God."

"Animals cannot remember anything, as they are born once only. But man can remember, although he is born once only. He remembers with his better part: his soul…. The soul of each man comes from God, the most intelligent, powerful, and perfect Spirit. This wonderful thing which is a soul, a thing created by God to give man His image and likeness as an unquestionable sign of His Most Holy Paternity, shows signs of the qualities characteristic of Him who creates it. It is therefore intelligent, spiritual, free, and immortal like the Father who created it. It is perfect when it originates from the divine thought and in the instant of its creation it is identical, for a thousandth of instant, with the soul of the first man: a perfection which understands the Truth through free gift….Then, once it is formed it is stained by original sin."

" To make it clearer for you I will say that it is as if God were pregnant with the soul which He creates and the creature, in being born, were wounded by an indelible mark….A soul becomes thus incarnate in a human body, bringing with it the memory of the Creator, that is of the Truth, as a secret gem in the mystery of its spiritual being. A baby is born. It may become good, very good or wicked. It may become anything because it is endowed with free will. The angelical ministry throws light on its memories and the tempter darkness."

"If man craves after light and thus for a greater and greater virtue, making his soul the master of his being, the faculty of remembering increases in the soul, as if virtue made the wall interposed between soul and God thinner and thinner. That is why virtuous people in every country perceive the Truth, not in a perfect way, as they are dulled by contrasting doctrines or by lethal ignorance, but in a sufficient manner to give pages of moral perfection to the peoples to whom they belong….In conclusion, the religion of virtue practiced heroically predisposes the soul to the true religion and to the knowledge of God." (V. 3, Ch. 289, P. 92). 

We come to the understanding that the more virtuous life we lead, the thinner will be the wall between God and us. In that condition, the Holy Spirit can easily work in us revealing the mysteries of God more and filling us with more gifts.

In the house of Zacchaeus, Jesus says about the wrong theory taught by Pythagoras' school that there is reincarnation for souls. He says, "Souls, when they end their stay on the earth, do not come back to it again in any body, not in the body of an animal as it would not befit such a supernatural being to dwell in a brute, not in the body of a man because how could the body be rewarded when it is reunited to the soul in the Last Judgment if that soul had been clothed with many bodies? Those who believe in that theory say that it is the last body that rejoices because the soul through successive purifications in successive lives reaches the perfection deserving a reward only in the last reincarnation. It is an error and offence against God as it admits that God was able to create only a limited number of souls. It is an error and offence against man as it considers him so corrupt that he deserves a reward only with great difficulty. The reward may not be granted at once, ninety nine times in a hundred, purification will be required in life to come. But purification is preparation to joy. So he who is being purified is already saved. And once he is saved, he will rejoice, after doomsday, with his body. He will have only one body for his soul, as he had one life here, and with the body that his parents made for him and with the soul that the Creator created for him to give life to his body, he will take delight in the reward. It is not possible to be reincarnated, as it is not possible to go back in time." (V. 4, Ch. 522, P. 695). So reincarnation is impossible.

While speaking to Judas about the importance of saving his soul, Jesus says that all souls are created in the same way and that man's free will has stained it. He continues, "Every man is born with the same natural and supernatural things: a body and a soul. And while the body, being generated by men, may be more or less robust and healthy at birth, the soul, created by God, is the same for everybody, endowed by God with the same properties and gifts….You have used the intelligence of your mind and the freedom of your spirit to understand darkness voluntarily. Good and Evil were placed before you. You chose Evil. Nay, only Good was placed before you: I, your eternal Creator, who followed the evolution of your soul, who was aware of such evolution because the eternal thought is aware of everything that happens since time began to exist, placed Good before you, Good only, because He knows that you are weaker than an alga growing in a ditch." (V. 5, Ch. 565, P. 226). God gives everybody a pure soul, but man corrupts it with his free will. 

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