The development of human life and early childhood death

2 Preface The development of human life, life in general, is a great mystery. This not only concerns our biological life on our Earth, but also our spiritual life from a spiritualistic point of view. We will only be dealing with the last question here. Where does the human individuum, the soul or whatever name one wants to give it, come from? And where does it remain after it leaves our Earth again and when it sometimes has to leave very soon, as an infant for instance? This treatise assumes that our terrestrial, physically coarse life form is not the only one, but that our ethereal body, the astral body, the soul, separates from the physical body after its terrestrial demise and that it continues to live in an otherworldly, ethereal sphere, ergo continues to exit. It is furthermore assumed that human beings (not necessarily all of them) must return to this Earth again through a fresh birth, that something like a terrestrial rebirth, ergo reincarnation exists. Most Christian Churches like to dismiss the latter as a heathen view of life. One forgets in the process that the early Christendom, the Church Father Origen (born around 185AD, died 254AD) and his school taught the doctrine of reincarnation. Origen was the first, significant early-christian theologian of the Greek East. He perused and assessed the scripts of the New Testament for falsifications and mistakes and he made a scientific translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek. 1 If one assumes that terrestrial death is not the end of a human life (9; 10; 11; 12), the question of what else happens after naturally arises? Extensive depictions about the most diverse after-death destinies have been available to us for 150 years through our contact with the world of spirit. I have depicted a selection of them in my book "Leben nach dem irdischen Tod. Die Erfahrungen von Verstorbenen ” (11) (Life after one’s terrestrial death. Experiences of the deceased). This leads to the next question: Is our terrestrial birth actually the beginning of our existence and how and who assesses our behaviour here on Earth? Are good behaviour or committed crimes completely inconsequential? People have contemplated these questions at a very early stage, already thousands of years ago and they have entered the religious concepts prevailing at that time. They were of a nature that maintained that the human existence is due to an act of creation by a deity. The freedom of will people were endowed with however led to a situation where the creatures thus created did not always live their life according to the wishes and the laws of God or this deity. Committed misdemeanours or misdeeds however demanded, according to people’s sense of justice, punishment, indemnification and repentance. But where and how was this going to be carried out? Some religious systems (The Christian also) domiciled punishment or remuneration in the hereafter, 1 Comprehensive report about it 7, P. 11-17

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