Reincarnation

77 2.7.2 Council history (Professor Dr. Carl Joseph Hefele, Zweiter Band, 1856, Herder’sche Verlagshandlung) Wherein it states among other things: § 255: The edict of Justinian Caesar continues to list the other, the main but false doctrines of Origen: Pre-existence, Apokatastasis, multitudes of worlds etc... ...Nobody should be ordained in future to the rank of bishop or abbot, without mentioning the customary anathema of the heretics Sabellius, Arius, Apollinaris, Nestorius, Eutyches, Dioseur, Timetheus Ailuros, Pertrus Moggus, Anthimus of Trapezunt (really from Constantinople), Theodosius of Alexandria, Petrus of Antioch, Petrus of Apamea and Severus of Antioch and the anathema of Origen also intermingled ... As this was now established, it was only fair that Origen was placed under anathema, Caesar closed with the following 10 sentences: (Those sentences pertinent to the theme are once again listed here:)  If someone says or holds the opinion, that the souls of man were pre-existent, insofar as they had been intelligences and holy powers in the past, but became weary of the sight of God and therefore turned to evil, thereby losing their fervour in their Love for God, had received the name “souls” and were send down into a body for punishment - shall be anathematised. • If someone says or holds the opinion, that the soul of the Lord were pre-existent and united with the God- Logos before becoming physical at birth from the virgin - shall be anathematised.  If someone says or holds the opinion, that the body of our Lord Jesus Christ was formed in the womb of the holy virgin and that after that the God-Logos and the soul as pre-existent united with him - shall be anathematised. • If someone says or holds the opinion, the punishment of demon and ungodly people is temporal and will come to an end at some unspecified time; or there will be a return of demons and ungodly people - shall be anathematised. And continuing: Whether Caesar Justinian formulated this edict or whether the papal apokrisiars Pelagius and Mennas, as Baronius assumes, were the authors may stay undecided; the question of Church legality, was or wasn’t Caesar legally qualified to decree such an edict, is another story. It seems to me that we have one of those numerous and great Byzantinian infringements before us, which do not disappear even if we assume that Caesar acted in agreement with Mennas and Pelagius. The following anathemas were discovered by the famous Viennese librarian Peter Lambeck under some old manuscripts at the Viennese Library, at the end of the 17th century. The most important ones pertaining to the theme are:  If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration that follows from it: let him be anathema.  If anyone shall say that the creation (thu paragwghn) of all reasonable things includes only intelligences (noaj) without bodies and altogether immaterial, having neither number nor name, so that there is unity between them all by identity of substance, force and energy, and by their union with and knowledge of God

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