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THE REINCARNATION PROCESS EXPLAINED BY MAX HEINDEL




About how the human descends from Heaven to Earth to reincarnate in a new physical body, Max Heindel wrote the following:

« After a time comes the desire for new experience and the contemplation of a new birth. This conjures up a series of pictures before the vision of the spirit — a panorama of the new life in store for it. But, mark this well — this panorama contains only principal events. The spirit has free will as to detail.

Previous to taking the dip into matter, the threefold spirit is naked, having only the forces of the four seed atoms (which are the nuclei of the threefold body and the sheath of mind). Its descent resembles the putting on of several pairs of gloves of increasing thickness, as previously illustrated.

The forces of the mind of the last incarnation are awakened from their latency in the seed atom. This begins to attract to itself materials from the highest subdivision of the Region of Concrete Thought, in a manner similar to that in which a magnet draws to itself iron filings.

If we hold a magnet over a miscellaneous heap of filings of brass, silver, gold, iron, lead and other metals, we shall find that it selects only iron filings and that even of them it will take no more than its strength enables it to lift. Its attractive power is of a certain kind and is limited to a certain quantity of that kind.

The same is true of the seed atom. It can take, in each Region, nothing except the material for which it has an affinity and nothing beyond a certain definite quantity even of that. Thus the vehicle built around this nucleus becomes an exact counterpart of the corresponding vehicle of the last incarnation, minus the evil which has been expurgated and plus the quintessence of good which has been incorporated in the seed atom.

The material selected by the threefold spirit forms itself into a great bell-shaped figure, open at the bottom and with the seed atom at the top. If we conceive of the illustration spiritually we may compare it to a diving-bell descending into a sea composed of fluids of increasing density. These correspond to the different subdivisions of each World.

The matter taken into the texture of the bell-shaped body makes it heavier, so that it sinks into the next lower subdivision and takes from that its proper quota of matter. Thus it becomes still heavier and sinks yet deeper until it has passed through the four subdivisions of the Region of Concrete Thought and the sheath of the new mind of the man is complete.

Next the forces in the seed atom of the desire body are awakened. It places itself at the top of the bell, inside, and the materials of the seventh Region of the Desire World draw around it until it sinks to the sixth Region, getting more material there, and this process continues until the first Region of the Desire World is reached. The bell has now two layers — the sheath of mind outside and the new desire body inside.

The seed atom of the vital body is next aroused into activity, but here the process of formation is not so simple as in the case of the mind and the desire body, for it must be remembered that those vehicles were comparatively unorganized, while the vital body and the dense body are more organized and very complicated.

The material, of a given quantity and quality, is attracted in the same manner and under the operation of the same law as in the case of the higher bodies, but the building of the new body and the placement in the proper environment is done by four great Beings of immeasurable wisdom, which are the Recording Angels, the “Lords of Destiny.”

They impress the reflecting ether of the vital body in such a way that the pictures of the coming life are reflected in it. It (the vital body) is built by the inhabitants of the Heaven World and the elemental spirits in such a manner as to form a particular type of brain.

But mark this, the reincarnating Ego itself incorporates therein the quintessence of its former vital bodies and in addition to this also does a little original work. This is done that in the coming life there may be some room for original and individual expression, not predetermined by past action.

(All this Max Heindel’s explanation is false, because the seed atoms and the ethers do not exist, since they are lies invented by Charles Leadbeater, which shows that Max Heindel was also a big liar.)


The vital body, having been molded by the Lords of Destiny, will give form to the dense body, organ for organ. This matrix or mold is then placed in the womb of the future mother.

The seed atom for the dense body is in the triangular head of one of the spermatozoa in the semen of the father. This alone makes fertilization possible and here is the explanation of the fact that so many times sex-unions are unfruitful.

Also there must be a seed atom for the dense body, to act as gauge of the quality and quantity of the matter which is to be built into that dense body.

(This is also wrong, because the vital body was not molded by the Lords of Destinity, the vital body was molded by the Skandhas. The vital body does not give form to the physical body; this is the function of the astral body, while the function of the vital body is to bring life. And Max Heindel continues to invent lies with the seed atoms.)


When the impregnation of the ovum has taken place, the desire body of the mother works upon it for a period of from eighteen to twenty-one days, the Ego remaining outside in its desire body and mind sheath, yet always in close touch with the mother.

Upon the expiration of that time the Ego enters the mother's body. The bell-shaped vehicles draw themselves down over the head of the vital body and the bell closes at the bottom. From this time the Ego broods over its coming instrument until the birth of the child and the new earth life of the reincarnating Ego commences.

(This is also false, because the great instructors say that the Ego begins to enter the mother's body around the third month of pregnancy and ends up integrating into the baby's body at the seventh month.) »

(The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception, chapter 3)






CONCLUSION

Almost everything Max Heindel taught about how the reincarnation process takes place is wrong.













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