Earth is not the permanent dwelling of
any spirit. It is a school-world, a purifying laboratory, a learning centre, a
workshop where the spirit learns, improves itself, and grows, over a longer or
shorter period of time, in an environment suitable for its evolution.
As explained in Chapter IV, spirits are
distributed by classes among worlds, in accordance with their degree of
evolution.
The spirits that are undergoing
evolution in our planet belong to the first 17 classes. In space, these classes
are separated by order of their importance.
When they incarnate, however, they blend to form peoples of heterogeneous structures, in keeping with the requirements of a school world. Those who know more, who have more training, more experience, teach those who know less what they in turn learned from others. This is exactly why we very often see in the same family persons of very different degrees of spirituality.
When they incarnate, however, they blend to form peoples of heterogeneous structures, in keeping with the requirements of a school world. Those who know more, who have more training, more experience, teach those who know less what they in turn learned from others. This is exactly why we very often see in the same family persons of very different degrees of spirituality.
In order to learn life's lessons well,
man needs to find in his fellow beings qualities and knowledge which he does
not yet have.
The spirit is immaterial. Its astral
body, also called perispirit or animistic body, made of fifth-essence matter -
but still matter - is made of the same animistic substance existing in the
world where the spirit stays between incarnations.
Similarly, its physical body is made of
matter existing in our planet. The more advanced the world where it belongs,
the more diaphanous the fifth-essence matter of which its astral body is made.
This explains why some astral bodies,
although made of the same substance, are more diaphanous than others.
No fact or event in human life can be
hidden from spiritual plans. Everything we do or think brings forth vibrations
which cross in all directions.
This is why, as soon as fertilisation
takes place, it is at once spiritually recorded and a spirit moves forward,
among those who await their turn, to perform one of the paramount
determinations of natural law - reincarnation. This is done without fear or
reluctance, that spirit being fully aware of its duty.
Once the spirit has decided to
reincarnate and identified a woman to serve as mother, it monitors the
formation of the physical body throughout the pregnancy until fetal development
is completed. Finally at birth it takes full possession of the body to which it
remains attached by means of animistic cords.
The developing physical body is then
gradually enveloped, molecule by molecule, by the animistic body of the
incarnating spirit which irradiates over it from outside the pregnant mother's
body, until the moment of birth when it takes full hold of the child's body.
Once incarnation has been accomplished,
the spirit sustains itself on its astral body placed side by side with the
child's body, on the left side.
As soon as incarnation has taken place,
the human being becomes complete with three bodies as follows:
(1) Mental body (spirit)
(2) Astral body (animistic matter)
(3) Material body (organic matter)
As such, the spirit is supposed to
carry out its earthly duties and live two distinctly separate lives: material
life and spiritual life.
The mental body, to which researchers
are now turning their attention, is the live, intelligent agent that governs
the other two bodies - the astral and the physical bodies - and is therefore
responsible for all manifestations of life.
The law of transformation of matter, to
which the other bodies are subject, does not affect the mental body. The spirit
is eternal and unchangeable in its essence and it offers magnificent demonstrations
of its capabilities and courage as it grows in spirituality.
The astral body is the bond, the
connection between the mental and the physical bodies. It is joined, particle
by particle to the mental body, as a result of the permanent vibration of the
latter. It encircles the entire physical body to which it is connected by means
of animistic cords.
During sleep, the spirit wanders away,
together with the astral body (from which it never parts) but never breaks its
links with the physical body. It continues to pass on warmth and life by means
of the previously mentioned animistic cords.
No matter how long the distances
separating the spirit from its corporeal instrument may be, their connection is
never broken.
Such interruption would amount to disincarnation
and also, the extension of the animistic cords is unlimited.
Thus, only after disincarnation do the
mental and astral bodies abandon the physical body definitively.
The physical body is a wonderful piece
of machinery conceived by Universal Intelligence to provide its operator - the
sprit - with the means and elements necessary to take a post-graduate course on
Earth. This course is meant to last numerous multiple incarnations, which are
essential to its ascension to an environment of higher spirituality on a higher
level of evolution.
Medical science studies the physical
body in minor detail and devotes full attention to it. And today a considerable
number of scientists admit that the disorders of the spirit - among which
emotional disturbances stand out - are the cause of a great number of
physiological disorders, and constitute a picture of abnormalities and diseases
whose aetiology is no longer a secret for them.
A normal physical body may be said to
be a perfect, finished piece of sculpture.
When the spirit incarnates, it isolates
itself from its past and forgets completely its previous incarnations. It only
retains in its subconscious the experience gained from past ordeals and the
tendencies resulting from the use of its free will.
That is extremely good for the spirit.
Firstly, the veil of matter prevents identification of enemies of previous
incarnations and makes reconciliation possible, bringing them closer, without
grudges or ill will. Secondly, with temporary oblivion of past mistakes, which
so often humble, shame, subdue and even alienate the will, the incarnate spirit
sort of begins a new existence in each passage through Earth.
Billions of spirits have done and
continue to do so in their trajectory through this planet, in a long series of
incarnations.
The spirit retains forever all that was
conquered through work and effort. This conquest, this wealth, this heritage
are valuable assets in each incarnation. They facilitate the acquisition of new
knowledge, new qualities and the refinement of its attributes.
Incarnation
of the spirit
by Luiz de Mattos
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by Luiz de Mattos
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