Gazing at the Mystery, a book by Samael Aun Weor

Reincarnation

When death’s hour arrives, the Angel in charge of cutting the thread of existence concurs to the bed of the agonizing one. Thus, in that precise instant in which we exhale the last breath, the Angel of death takes the soul out of the body and cuts with his scythe the silver cord.  This cord is a certain mysterious, silver thread which connects the soul with the physical body.  Such magnetic cord can stretch or shrink itself until the infinite.

It is stated that a dream is nothing but a short death.  It is known that during dream the soul is not inside the body, the detached soul travels to remote distances, thus, the silver thread elongates infinitely.  Thanks to this thread is how the soul can return into its physical body in the moment of awakening after the current sleep.

The agonizing people use to see the Angel of death as an spectral figure and dressed with funeral garments.  It is clear that they undertake this extremely sinister figure only when they are executing their occupation.  Out of their occupation they assume beautiful figures as those of children, ladies or venerable elders.  The Angels of death are not evil or perverse.  They only work in accordance with the Great Law.  Each person is born in his hour and dies exactly in his time.

The souls of the dead recapitulate or re-pass in a detailing way their life which just has passed.  This is a process which is always performed in a retrospective way. During such processes the souls rerun their steps, that is to say, they live in those places where they previously lived, they repeat always the same, the same deeds, the same events.  When they revive those instants related with the first years of infancy, they look like children.  It is obvious that once their life is re-passed just as it happened, they then present themselves in front of the Lords of Karma, in front of the tribunals of the Law, ready to be judged.  This is what is called, to present oneself before the Tribunals of God.

The fate of each soul is the outcome of such judgement, of such verdict.  Some souls before returning into this world,  soar towards the heavenly regions, other souls enter into the infernal worlds which are situated inside the interior of the Earth.  Finally, other souls return immediately or medially  to this valley of tears.

This matter of returning into this world use to be extremely painful.  Unfortunately,  we have to always return.  The Angels of life connect the returning soul’s silver thread to the spermatozoon which is going to execute the fecundation within the womb.

The creature is gestated inside the womb. However, the returning soul, indeed, only enters inside the body in that instant in which the child breaths his first air inhalation. To comprehend this is vital and indispensable.

Therefore, we, people, before this life which we presently have, we had not only the immediately past existence, but many other existences. Thus, each person is born in accordance with his own fate.  Some souls are born among wealthy families with plenty money, yet, other souls come again or return among poor and miserable people.

If we performed good in our past existence, then now we collect the prize, we return in homes where nothing is lacking for us, thus, we have many type of commodities.

If we perform evil, if we squandered the money, if we were penny-pinchers, if we exploited the neighbour, if we committed the mistake of robbing or impoverishing others, if we use the money in the wrong way, then it is evident that we have to return among miserable families, dressed with bodies of beggars, that is, unhappy, famished and nutritionally consumed.  Therefore, every soul collects the fruits of its own actions.

It is clear that people do not remember their past lives because they have their Consciousness asleep.  If people would have their Consciousness awaken, it is obvious that they would then remember their former existences.

One must do the effort of performing good, of performing charitable deeds, that is, to dress the naked, give food to the famished one, give to drink to the thirsty one, to teach to the one who does not know, etc., etc.  so that in his future return, in his next return to the Earth after death, he can be reborn in beautiful, lovely homes, among people of good customs, with much abundance, peace and prosperity.

Question:  Do the Angels of life and Angels of death exist?

Answer:  I will answer the question with much gladness.  The Angles of death concur at the bed of the agonizing people. They normally live in the fifth dimension, the astral world, which is that dimension  that esotericism and occultism often mentions.  The Angels of life have a childlike figure, they know a lot about occult medicine, they have power over the waters of existence, over the womb, over the amniotic liquid, over the creative organs and they normally live within the fourth dimension, which is the ethereal world.

There is no doubt that the Angels of life work with women during the parturition. They can open the whole womb and to help in any birth.  They use to be astonishing physicians, indeed they are the one who are in charge of connecting the thread of life with the fecundating spermatozoon. They are the secret agents who help any parturient woman.

Question:  Then, in accordance with what you are explaining to us, does the predestination exist and can one change it?

Answer: Respectable lady, I will answer you question. It is clear that predestination exists. Indeed, predestination is the outcome of all our good and evil deeds from our former existences.  If one robbed, now one will be robbed, if one killed, now one will be killed, etc., etc.

For instance, I will now to narrate for you a very interesting case.  It so happen that a young man with three fellow friends left on a trip from Mexico towards the United States. However, they had a tragic eventuality, the car in which they were travelling was hit by another car and in the accident there were other hits against other vehicles which were also circulating on the road.  The accident left two dead and two wounded persons.

When we investigated in the superior worlds, we evidenced what the law of predestination is.  One of the dead, the first one who died of the two, died in an instantaneous way, he died in the precise moment of the collision.   The other one suffered of third degree burns and after 20 days of agony, he exhale his last breath.  The third was the driver of the vehicle who only had a dislocation of his arm and a small wound in his leg and the last, the fourth one, he only suffered a slight wound on his head.  We specially investigated the three first ones and the result was the following:

The one who died first had lived in Mexico during the epoch of Don Porfirio Diaz. It was clear that he was a very powerful wealthy man, a great despotic landholder, who enjoyed to run over the poor workers, by launching the horses against the peasants on the roads, etc.  The one who died with severe burns, had committed the crime of pouring gasoline over the bodies of his brothers when the latter were sleeping in the night and thereafter, he lit the fire on them. This then was his most terrible crime of his past existence, thus, now he came to perished inside of a burning car, dying with third degree burns. Regarding the third one, he had made suffer a young man in his former existence. It so happen that with a gang of young men he had hit the other young man and dislocating his arm by pulling it with violence, thus, now during the accident, he was receiving the consequence of it. Therefore, each one of them was born with his own fate.

Nevertheless, fate can be modify by performing lots of charitable deeds, by dedicating oneself to exert the good, by practising merciful deeds, etc.  Therefore, the concrete fact that fate can also be modify is clarified, because: “When an inferior law is transcended by a superior law, then, the superior law washes away the inferior law.”  Perform good deed so that you can pay your debts.

This chapter is from Gazing at the Mystery (1972) by Samael Aun Weor. The print and ebook editions by Glorian Publishing (a non-profit organization) are illustrated to aid your understanding, and include features like a glossary and index. Buy the book, and you benefit yourself and others.

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