-6 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Regarded as the sharpest thinker and as archetype of the sharpest logic for Germany’s youth, said: “Why could each individual not have lived on Earth more than once? Is this precondition so ridiculous because it is the oldest, because human common sense, before it has been scattered and weakened by subtleties (sophistication), immediately accepted it? Why couldn’t I have already taken all the steps towards my perfection, something only temporal punishments and rewards can bring? And why not all the others that endeavour to teach us the mighty prospect of eternal reward? Why shouldn’t I return as often as I will be sent to gain new insights, new attainments? Do I collect so many things at once, that it is not worthwhile to return? Why not? - Or because I have forgotten that I had been here before? Just as well that I forget it. The memory of my previous affairs would only make me utilise the present situation badly. And the things that I must also now forget, will I have forgotten it for eternity? Or because such a lot of time would be lost for me? - Lost? - And what do I have to miss out on? Isn’t eternity here for me?” (From: “Erziehung des Menschengeschlechtes”) Gottfried Herder: “There is no death within creation, it is the taking away of what cannot remain, the effect of a young, restless constant force that cannot remain idle, still or inactive for a moment. There is no death within creation, always only change. Victor Hugo” “I feel my future life within myself…When I go to my grave I will be able to say to many others: I have fulfilled the day’s task - but I cannot say: My life has come to an end. My day’s task will start again the next morning… Giordano Bruno: “What we call dying is the birth to a new life.” Immanuel Kant: He was convinced that the human soul was in an indissolubly linked communion with all immaterial natures of the world of spirit, that it interacts reciprocally with it and receives impressions from it. Dr. Max Kemmerich: Said this about reincarnation: “The belief in a rebirth gives life a wonderfully moral hold, great fortitude during misfortunes and humility in happiness. It saves us from bitterness, because it constantly seeks and finds the cause of a problem.” Manfred Kybler: “One does not have to be a mystic in order to find that reincarnation makes sense, because from a logical point of view, it is the only possibility to see compensation, cause and effect and justice in everything that takes place.”
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