Reincarnation – an original Christian doctrine

67 accept Galileo’s doctrine through the rehabilitation of this physicist, whom they forced under threat of torture during two inquisition processes, to recant the truth he had recognised and that is now seen as a self-evident truth. How long will the Church wait until it acknowledges the law of reincarnation? It has been well over 1,500 years in regards to the doctrine of reincarnation! The consequences for human beings: The inner path The pre-existence of the soul and its return to a physical body until it has achieved a higher degree of purification has not been taught to us to this day. The fatal flaw in this is that this knowledge has not only been stricken from the ecumenical curriculum, but also completely stricken from the communal consciousness, from the spiritual life of the occident. This is why people live in ignorance and according to their own discretion, most of the time without ever considering what might happen after their physical demise. They are not aware that their soul returns with the same mistakes and weaknesses in order to continue an ignorant and aimless existence in a new terrestrial garment, a place where a past existence stopped being effective through their physical death. Many say “after me the deluge” without actually suspecting that everything that they created and will create in the future will follow them; because every cause has its effect. The Church has exercised its total influence and stamped its mark on people for a long time, it tied them to its own principles. The Church pushed the truth from people’s consciousness. Will it or can it ever give account for this? It no longer has this total, determining power these days, it actually get progressively weaker. The revitalisation of old knowledge whose dimension reached way beyond any confession is nowadays possible. One might ask oneself: How could God allow this to happen, namely that such important basic knowledge about life in general could be kept from people so quickly after Christ’s act of salvation? Did the almighty God no longer have an opportunity after Christ’s physical death, to proclaim his will through prophets like in the Old Testament? Was God helplessly at the mercy of political and theological wheeling and dealing here on Earth? There have been a sufficient number of prophets and proclaimers of the truth during the last 2,000 years that have, filled with God’s prophetic spirit, tried to guide people along the inner path to God and this, with a few exceptions (for instance Hildegard of Bingen, Therese of Avila, Johannes Tennhardt, Jacob Böhme etc . ), outside of the official Church. Great prophets continued to make an appearance throughout human history to call upon people, through God’s direct word, the inner word, to mend their ways. 162 But the power of the Church, spiritually restricted through human dogmatic tenets, secularised and paying more attention to influence and visual glory, has almost always successfully suppressed all free stirrings of the spirit thought the drawn sword of an inquisition, a martyr’s pyre or through calumniation. 162 A comprehensive introduction to the essence of the inner word, its justification and existence in the Old and the New Testament as well as numerous examples for this from history after Christ gives the book by Tennhardt, Johannes, “About the inner word”. (See bibliograpgy)