Does it make any ultimate difference in the religious
life whether or not one believes in reincarnation? I believe there are much greater
priorities in a spiritual life than whether one does or does not accept a particular
theological tenet. Those who are still irresolute on the question of reincarnation, or
indeed those who are emphatically resolute in one direction or another, possess no special
advantage before God. The only possible advantage that the reincarnationist may claim over
those who are unresolved or opposed is that he has a reasonable and consistent theory to
account for the prenatal and postmortem life of the soul as well as an explanation for the
apparent absurdities in the dispensation of divine justice. The following are
excerpts from two great books on the subject. The first is Reincarnation for the Christian by Quincy Howe Jr.
The other is Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity by Elizabeth Clair Prophet.
Does it make any ultimate difference in the religious life whether or not one believes in reincarnation? I believe there are much greater priorities in a spiritual life than whether one does or does not accept a particular theological tenet. Those who are still irresolute on the question of reincarnation, or indeed those who are emphatically resolute in one direction or another, possess no special advantage before God. The only possible advantage that the reincarnationist may claim over those who are unresolved or opposed is that he has a reasonable and consistent theory to account for the prenatal and postmortem life of the soul as well as an explanation for the apparent absurdities in the dispensation of divine justice. The following are excerpts from two great books on the subject. The first is
Reincarnation for the Christian by Quincy Howe Jr. The other is
Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity by Elizabeth Clair Prophet.
