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PRESERVING THE UNITYOF SOUL AND BODY:

REINCARNATIONBy CHARUS FILLMORE

P:El HE Western world in generalIll/il looks upon reombodiment or re.  incarnation, as a heathen doe.E  trinA Many people close thedoor of their mind upon it, without walt-ing to And out what message it bringswhen interpreted in the Hght of Truth.It 18 the objectof this article to set forth

i the Unity teachin: concerning reincar.nation; to show why we consider it rea-sonable, and to explain its relation 24 andits place in, the Christ doctrine.

The teachins of Jesus Christ is that allmen shall, through Him. be made freefrom sin and be saved to the uttermost-eplrit, soul, body. But until thia salva-tion ia attained. there is death. To givemen opportunity to get the full benefitof salvation. life is necessary. and a-  body through which to express life isalso necessary. So. when man loses hisbody by death, the law of expression- works within him for reembodlment, and

i he takes advantage of the Adam methodof generation to regain a body. Divinemercy permits this process in order thatman may have further opportunity todemonstrate Christ life. But generation

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tion and eternal life. The necessity ofreblrth must therefore pass away withall other makeshifts of the mortal man.It will have no place when men take ad·vantage of the redeeming, regeneratinglife of Jesus Christ and quit dying.

Reombodlmint should not be given un-due importance, because it is merely atemporary remedy to be followed by thereal, which is resurrection. The wholeman--spirit. soul. and body-must belifted up into the Christ consciousnessof life and perfection.

Through "the light [the indwellingChrist] which liarhteth every man, com-Ing Into the world," the so-Called heathenhave discerned many truths to which themore material-minded people of thenewer countries have been blind. When.ever there has been a nation of thinkerswho were not bound in materialism.those thinkers have accepted relmbodi-ment a. a fuL It is rejected only wherethe crale for wealth and for fame andfor the things of the world has darkenedthe mind with materiality.

The heathen who have not receivedTruth as revealed by Jesus Christ do notknow where and how re*mbodiment Atsinto the race redemption; to them it is sbed, unalterable law. They believe inkarma, the accumulated effects of the ainsof put lives The burden of karma theyhave carried for ages, and they expectto carry it for ages more, until they haveworked out of IL This makes them vic.tims of a blind fatalism, weary treadmilltravelers from birth to death, and from

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death to birth. There Is no such hopelessnote In the doctrine of Jesus Christ. Hecame to bring a full consciousness ofabundant life complete forgiveness andredemption from all sin, victory overdeath and the grave, so delivering manfrom any occasion for reembodiment andfrom all ideas of karma.

The hesthen hold that reinearnation laone of the natural evolutionary steps ofman's development We teach, and ourdoctrine is sustained by the teachings ofJesus, that rebirth is the unifying forceof nature at work in its effort to restoreman to his original deathless estate. Man,through his disregard of the law of life,brought death upon soul and body, astaught in the 3d chapter of Genesis. Asingle span of life. from the birth of aninfant to the death of an old man. doesnot constitute all man's opportunity forlife. Life is continuous and in harmonywith the wholeneu of Being only whenit 18 expressed in a perfect body; henceman must have a body in order to gainan abiding conaciousness of life. Throughnpeated trials at living, man 18 8ndingout thit he must learn to control the ia-sues of life. The divine law, as taughtby Jesus Christ. muat be understood andapplied in all life's details and when thists doee the Eden state will be restored.

ne objectiona that the natural manraises to rumbodiment arise largelyfrom the fact that he lives in the per-aonal conaciousness and cannot see thingsIn the univers,L He thinks that by re-amhadiment he 6oes his identity. But  

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[,41 1Identity endures. Personal consciousneudoes not endure. The perional man Mnot immortal and he dies. This ts clear fta any one who is willing to give up his

belief in the reality and importance of  the personal consciousness.

All of the personal man-his limita-tions, his relations-muit live way tothe Universal, the Christ The privilege18 ours to give up or forsake everything I-father, mother, wife, children, house•.lands--for Christ's sake. and so enterinto the consciousness of the absoluteBy doing this we come into the realiza.tion of eternal life and receive a hun-dredfold more than we have foraaken.If we refuse or neglect to make this"ucrifice,- and prefer to live in thenarrow, personal self. and cling to theold family relationships there Is nothingfor it but to meet the result of ourchoice, and to live all those rektions upby death. It is just a question of givingup a little for the all and of gaining |eternal life. So if reimbodiment freesone from the old personal relationships, ,it ts not such a dreadful thinK after allBut it cannot give anything more thannew personal relations. Rising out of - :thse into the universal is a work that ·everyone must do willingly for himself. 1Dath and retmbodiment do not give re-demption. Raincarnation serves only us further opportunity to lay hold 01 re.demption.

Paul writing to the Romana, said: ' 1*'The whole creation groaneth and trav.stleth in pain together until now . . .

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Initing for . . . the redemption of our &15]body: He discerned with rernarkableclearnes, that the body was to be savedfrom death: tbe :rave. and corruption.mind dwelling in the body. Thi pureincorruptible subitance of Spirit, builtby the transforming power of the Christinto the organism through true. purespiritual thought and word. makes thebody incorruptible and eternal. As themind changes from error to Truth, mr-responding chan/es take place in th'body. and the utilmate of these changes

I k perfection and wholeness in every partTherefore thooe who are trying to layhold of eternal life have ground for theirfaith in the promise that they will be•avid from the grave.

Knowing that spirit, soul. and body areall necessary to man and that he cannottruly be said to live except in their con-acial union and expression. the error ofbelieving that death k the open door toa higher life. the gateway to heaven, iseasily seen. There is no progress indeath. Death 11 negation. The demon.stration of eternal life can be made onlyin life--soul and body together workingout the problem and together being liftedUB

ne idea of progress in death has itsorigin in the mortal mind, which reasonsfrom its own limitations instead of fromabsolute Truth. The mortal mind desires

i to preserve eternally the personal con.scioaine- and all personal relations.Man therefore attempts to make and topeople a heaven. or spirit world, where

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all the old family relations are u he [ it-  1knows them in his present life. He clingsto this idea with a tenacity worthy ofa better object, and it ia usually onlyafter hard experience that he Is willingto drop the personal and to say: "Who-soever shall do the will of my Fatherwho is In heaven, he ts my brother, andsister. And mother." Eternal life can-not be demonstrated in personal con-sclousness. The great family of JesusChriat, the redeemed Adam race. are all .9

one, and the little Bellish relationshipsof the Adam man have no place in th*new order.

Another illogical belief about the des-tiny of man k that the patriarchs andthe prophets. and all others who havelived. have been lying in their gravessome of them for thousands of yearzhaving no place in the onward movementof the race. Another teaching, unfoundedin Scripture or in reaion. holds that theywho formerly lived are now either in srealm of eternal bliss or in a state ofunending torment. It is far more logicalto believe that the race is a unit andthat all its members arrow and developtogether as well as individually. Thuswe flnd it only reasonable to think ofevery man and every woman as eomingonto the stage repeatedly, keeping upconnection with the race and its expertences. A definite initance of this ia written in the Scriptures concerning Elijah'sappearance and work as John the Baptist"And the disciples asked him. saying.9Vhy then do the Bcribes say that Elijah

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must Brst conler He answering, 44011'Elijah indeed comes, and will restore allthings. But I say to you. that Elijahhas already come. and they did not rec-o:nize him. but have done to him what.ever they wished:... Then the disciples

  understood that he spoke to them con·cerning John" (Matt 17:10-14, EmphaticDiaglott).

Mortal consciousness has no power tolift itself out of ignorance and Iin, sothe mere matter of repeated births hasnot taka the race forward. It b thedescent of Spirit from time to time, asthe people have been able to receive it.that has made at! progress. As men'sgrowth has made It pouible, new truthshave been diacerned and new dispensa.tions have come. When the time wasripe. Jesus came and brought the goodnews of salvation from death. But hiswords had to work in the race conscious-ness for nearly two thousand years be-fore any one was au&!ently awakenedand quickened to believe in a completeredemption and to strive to laY hold ofit The promise is that the leaven ofthe Word will finally laven the whole ofthe human family and that all will comeinto the light of life

From the standpoint of the universalit is plain that refmbodiment serves apurpose in affording opportunities forspiritual development All that is gainedin spiritual growth in one life experiencebecomes Dart of the man's rul identity,and. if be ii faithful he will Bnallygather sech a store of spiritual power

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and wisdom that he ean demonstriul'll isalvation of his body through Him who18 "able to save to the uttermost" But.we would repat. ninarnation k onlyan opportunity.

If generation and reincarnation arenot th. means of restoring to their placein the rici those who have died. whatis the means that accords with the divinekw 7 Raurr,ction. The Scriptures makivery plain that all men are already "dead 'through... trespasses and sins.-Whether they still walk the earth, or haveceased to breathe and have been buriedfrom sight, all are in a dead state. andall must be raised from the grave of ·ignorance and min. "The hour eometh.and Dow ia, when the dead shall hearthe voice of the Son of God: and theythat hear shall live. . . . Marvel not at 4

I this: for the hour cometh in which all ,that are in the tombs Bl all hear his ,voice. and shall come forth."

"The hour . . . now is." Right nowthe reiurrection work is going on, andmen and women are awakening to a newconsclousness of life of understanding.and of bodily perfection. This resurrec-tion work must extend to every memberof the Adam race, whether he la whatwe call alive or whether he. as Jesus said 'of the dead, sleeps. All must be awak-ened and be unified in soul and body.

Many of the present day ideas of tl,resurrection have come down from pastcenturies of ignorance. and have been ac-cepted without question. because thelseem to be supported by a literal inter-

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I '91pretation of certain Bible texti But inthese, as h: all Scripturs. we must try tolet back of the letter and see the spirit-ual meaning of the parables And the sym-bols used to teach the truth about theraising of the dead. and *s we do thiswe ind going on in ourselves the veryawakening and resurrettion that we onceSuppoeed would come in a single day toburied people. When this raising up, re-' deeming procm hai zone far enough in

+ us. ve shall probably be the means of1- awakening and nising other buried. ones, th- fulmling the mission that was

i given us: "Raiae the dead." Such amighty and far-reaching work would be' included in the promiK "Greater wor#

' thin these shall he [man] do-""The dead in Christ shall rise first": This is mmuble. Jems said that many

would strive to demonitrate eternal life: and wn"11 not be able to do ao. But, by: their dorts to lay hold of lifz such per-i son, build up a spiritual consciousneu

that is more easily reached by the spokenreeurrecting Word. They will come forth, · to "the resurrection of life"; that is. they*' will be reembodied in the consciousnessf of life that·they have attained. and will'-  go on growing into the full realization.I making the complete demonstration. m

,9 that they will not die a second deathMention u also made in Johng rospel'* · (King James version) of '•the resurree-63. tion of dimnition." Damnition iS CODIp-, 6%=Miti.4 Paul makes it very el'1/

R.= that. by Adam'a tranitression, coodem-mr , nation Ime upon all his raci. As d athit.. , ' :/1

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[31has no power to help any one, the eondi.tion of the Adam man is not bettered b,dying. Therefore, when people are re-*mbodied they "come forth unto the re*-urrection of Judgment," in other wordscondemnation or correction. Every onebegins where he left off. But though one

  may have diedin condemnation and may

have been reembodied in that state, he .has opportunity, when reembodled. tocome up into Jesus Christ (in whom 18 nocondemnation) identify himself withthe Jesus Chrjst race, and demonstratethrough Him the deathless life. So tsproved the divine justice of includingall in sin in Adam, that all might be delivered in one. even Jeeua Christ

In Borne of Paul's statements about theresurrection, he seemingly contradicts

, Jesus, but we muit remember that thenare steps and phases to this great proceaand when we understand them we shadsee that men will be raised to their placein the Adam race (the resurrection tocondemnation). then raised out of Adaminto Christ. Every one who would densonstrate that he 18 risen with Christ mustArst lay hold of life by faith and afltrm.without wavering, that he 18 raised outof ain and condemnation and death intolife eternal. Then the Word of life ear-ries 04 day by day, the resurrecting, re.demptive work in the mind and in thebody. -I die daily," I am raised daily.Every day some old limitation or errorloses ita hold and passes away, and thi iimperishable. incorruptible subitince of ITruth becomes a little more Brmly estab-  

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 :1,1  lished in ronsciousness. In this way thebody is transformed and raised up inhonor, incorruptible Immortal

ilowever, some 01 the detalis of thisgreat restitution work must of necessitybe. at this time. mere speculation. It 1•not prontable to allow our minds to dwell

: upon mortal queitionings about how thework of Spirit is to be done in andthrough us. 11 is our place to hold our.selves in a positive life thought realizingalways the omnipresence and perfectionof life In God, thus bringing perfect lifemore and more 14to manifeitation in our.selvee and in others. When we realizehow much our falthfulness means to therace, we shall rejoice in being true to thegreat truths that will bring to pass thetime when death and the grave will beno more. "And death shall be no more ; |neither shall there be mourning, nor cry-ing, nor pain. any more: the flrit thingsare passed away."

That you do not remember your pasttives provei nothing. Neither do youremember the day on which you wereborn but you do not on that accountquestion the fact of your birth. Com•paratively little of your preient life 18remembered. But that does not alterthe fact that you have lived. Memory.to the natural man, is a matter of physi-cal brain records, photographic or phono-graphic in character. The memories of'experiences In past lives are not clearlyrecorded in the new brain structure ofthe infant Such memories are usuallyin the nature of vague impressions; the

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F f '2:k1,sense of identity is blurred. But In thebook of life, the great Mind of the uni-vene. all identity li,harply marked, andaS the individual becomes quickened andraised out of personal consciousness intothe universal. he will be able to bridgeover the breaks in personal experience.He will come to himaelf. Realizing his Ispiritual identity as the Ion of God. hewill not entangle himself with eitherpreunt or past personality. but will claimand demonstrate his divine sonship. liewill no longer limit himself to a briefspan of life. beginning with birth andending with death but will live in theconsciousness of e ernal life, which huneither end nor beginning.

Some· have thought that they coulddemonatrate eternal life by believing inthe never ending life while holding tothe idea of life's beginning. But noth-inK is eternal that halt a beginning. So if we would live forever, we must giveup every limitation of mortal ignorince.and say with Jesus "Before Abrahamwas...I am." "Glorify thou me withthine own Belf with the :lory which Ihad with thee before the world was."

UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY917 Tracy, Kinsia City. Mo.

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