Contents:

Definition

Do Family Members Reincarnate Together?

The Overriding Factor

Born Again and Again and Again: Reincarnation in Christianity

Of Reincarnation Chapter 8 — The Ocean of Theosophy

Reincarnation Continued — The Ocean of Theosophy Chapter 9

Reimbodiment Is Universal

by G. de Purucker

Reimbodiment is a universal fact because it is a law, that is to say, a continuous and consistent operation of nature, running throughout all being. The universe reimbodies itself when its course has been run, and after its period of rest which thereupon follows. Men do likewise; not because reincarnation is for them alone, but because it is the same fundamental law of cyclic beginnings and endings, and in the case of man it means only that he returns to pick up again the threads which he had dropped at a certain turn of that cycle which we call death.

Its procedure is strictly lawful, there is in its working no haphazard chance, no fortuity, no favor; it is merely the succession of state following upon state in strict accordance with cause and subsequent effect. Nobody and nothing operates it. It simply is; and its working is set in motion in every individual case by the action of the will of the entity upon the nature surrounding it. No god created the law of our reimbodiment. It is an intrinsic function of nature, and it acts in that way only because it can act in no other way, being simply a statement of the doctrine of consequences -- of consequences following upon originating causes.