(p. 95)

17. CONCERNING RE-INCARNATION (1)

            “THERE are three conditions under which the soul returns to the man’s form, and they are these: –

            1st. When the work which the Spirit proposes to accomplish is of a nature unsuitable to the female form.

            2nd. When the Spirit has failed to acquire in the degree necessary to perfection, certain special attributes of the male character.

            3rd. When the Spirit has transgressed and gone back in the path of perfection by degrading the womanhood it had attained.

            In the first of these cases its return to the male form is outward and superficial only. Therefore is

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it – though a woman – clothed in a man’s body that it may be enabled to do the work set before it.

            The second case is that of a soul, who, having been a woman perhaps many times, has acquired more aptly and readily the higher qualities of womanhood than the lower qualities of manhood. Such a soul is lacking in energy, in resoluteness, in that particular attribute of the Spirit which the prophet ascribes to the Lord when he says, “The Lord is a man of war.” Therefore the soul is put back into a man’s form to acquire the qualities yet lacking.

            The third case is that of the backslider who, having nearly attained perfection, perhaps even touched it, degrades and soils his white robe and is put back into the lower form again. These are the common cases, for there are few women who are worthy to be women.”

NOTE

(95:1) Clothed with the Sun. Part I, Nº. 34.

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