The development of human life and early childhood death

5 Process of re-embodiment Greber and Kardec do not give us any information. But through a medium from Zurich, Mrs. Beatrice Brunner (1910 – 1983) messages of that nature to this question came through in 1975, 1976 and in 1982. Amongst others, one spirit being calling herself “Lene” announced its presence through this medium. This female spirit presented her versatile narrations from the hereafter to a large circle of participants over many years until the death of the medium. Her reports can be seen as further embellishment to the doctrine Pastor Johannes Greber received from the world of the hereafter. During the course of an extended lecture given on the 19 th of February 1975, this Lene for instance also debated the terrestrial re-embodiment of spirit beings and she said at that time (15, P. 252; the words in parenthesis are always elucidating interpolations by the publisher and husband of the medium): “I have mentioned that divine beings exist whose assignment is, in conjunction with their spirit siblings, to accept and to assess otherworldly beings (the fallen) to ascertain whether they are far enough advanced to be guided towards a new life on Earth or whether they require a lengthier stay in the world of the spirit. I would like to let it rest there and only mention it again when discussing how the spirit behaves in regards to a re-embodiment. You must have asked yourselves the same question, ergo how is it possible for the spirit to familiarise itself with its new physical envelope in a new world called Earth? I will endeavour to explain this as best as I can. I said that spirits that come from way down are not even informed that the path they are on leads to a terrestrial existence. They are not told because one knows that they would otherwise resist. It is however within God’s plan that they are guided in such a way, because it is all about promoting their ascent. As I also mentioned, other spirits gladly give their consent to becoming physical human beings again in order to be able to ascend higher. They are all collected and one then leads all the spirit beings that occupy the same level of development together. But they all have completely different spirit forms. Some are larger, some are smaller and some are more delicate whilst other are stronger – they are completely different from one another. I now have to apply human comparative examples. When you as human beings are ill or when you fast, your girth, ergo your body weight is reduced. This process goes as follows in the world of spirit: These entities are put into a sleep state. Their spirit body must now be metamorphosed because it has to enter the little, terrestrial body of a child at a specific time. During this period of sleep, the spirit body of an entity – I would like to express this like this – becomes more and more diaphanous. It loses substance. Once the spirit body is ready to enter the body of a child, the spirit involved is accompanied to the relevant mother – a few hours, maybe even a few days before the birth takes place, in order to keep the spirit body near her body. The substance of the spirit body does however not lose anything through “becoming diaphanous”, but actually enters the soul. Nothing is lost, because this substance contains the energy, the building materials for the future growth of the child’s body, even though it has initially forfeited circumference and size when compared to the original spirit body. All of that substance is kept by the soul, it is its property and remains with it like a seed that germinates as soon as it is given the opportunity. The soul therefore produces growth (the spirit body). If the terrestrial body of the child is organically completely in order, the spirit will not find it difficult to enter it, and the world of the spirit will play its part. The “child’s spirit” squeezes itself into the little human body (that of the newborn). You might think that the little body is sometimes organically unsound. I have told you that the expectant mother is accompanied by the spirit of the selected child hours or even days before the re-embodiment takes place, it together with one of God’s angels virtually hover around her. This spirit and also further spirits recognise in time whether the mother they hover around can offer the spirit the right physical abode (through a healthy newborn). The world of spirit can also recognise whether unforeseen difficulties might occur – through human wilfulness or other causes. One therefore does not select a specific mother as a precaution, but a whole group of expectant mothers that also offer the opportunity for this spirit to re- embody itself.