Reincarnation
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Primitive man in southern Asia had a peculiar and fellow feeling for the higher animals, believing in man's return as animals, a survival of worshiping animals. 85:3.1
Throughout all these regions, older Jews, Plato, Philo, and Essenes tolerated belief in reincarnation. 164:3.4
Only spornagia experience reincarnation in the universe of Nebadon, reacting solely to the first five adjutant mind-spirits. 46:7.5
The primitive idea of reincarnation stemmed from the observance of hereditary resemblance and the custom of naming children after ancestors. 86:4.5-6
Upon death, the human subject temporarily loses identity but not personality; on the mansion worlds, both reunite in eternal manifestation, as spirits do not return to their planet of birth. 112:3.7 146:7.2 150:3.5
The stultifying belief in weary and monotonous lives perpetuated a fear of endless round of successive incarnations, robbing struggling mortals of hope for deliverance and spiritual advancement. 94:2.3-6