THE THEORY OF REBIRTH, which teaches that each spirit is an integral part of God, that it all divine possibilities as the acorn enfolds the oak; that by means of many existences in an earthy body of gradually improving texture its latent powers are being slowly unfolded and become available as dynamic energy; that none can be lost but that all will ultimately attain to perfection and reunion with God, each bringing with it the accumulated experiences which are the fruitage of its pilgrimage through matter.
Or, as we may poetically express it:
WE ARE ETERNAL
On whistling stormcloud;
on Zephyrus wing, The Spirit-choir loud the world-anthems sing;
Hark! List to their voice:
"We have passed through death's door,
There's no Death; rejoice! life lives evermore."
We are, have always been, will ever be.
We are a portion of Eternity,
Older than Creation,
a part of One Great Whole,
Is each Individual and immortal Soul.
On Time's whirring loom our garments we've wrought,
Eternally weave we on network of Thought,
Our kin and our country, by Mind brought to birth,
Were patterned in heaven ere molded on earth.
We have shone in the jewel and danced on the wave,
We have sparkled in fire, defying the grave;
Through shapes everchanging, in size, kind and name
Our individual essence still is the same.
And when we have reached to the highest of all,
The gradations of growth our minds shall recall,
So that link by link we may join them together
And trace step by step the way we reached thither.
Thus in time we shall know,
if only we do What lifts, ennobles, is right and true.
With kindness to all,
with malice to none,
That in and through us God's will may be done.
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin:
ignorance, and but one salvation: applied knowledge.
-Max Heindel |
