HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO REINCARNATE? (Master Kuthumi's answer)

 

In the letter that Master Kuthumi wrote to the British official Allan Octavian Hume, on July 9, 1882, on this subject he explained:

 

«  However, to set you right so far I will say — one life in each of the seven root-races; seven lives in each of the 49 sub-races — or 7 x 7 x 7 = 343 and add 7 more. And then a series of lives in offshoot and branchlet races; making the total incarnations of man in each station or planet 777.

 

The principle of acceleration and retardation applies itself in such a way, as to eliminate all the inferior stocks and leave but a single superior one to make the last ring. Not much to divide over some millions of years that man passes on one planet.

 

Let us take but one million of years — suspected and now accepted by your science — to represent man's entire term upon our earth in this Round; and allowing an average of a century for each life, we find that whereas he has passed in all his lives upon our planet (in this Round) but 77,700 years he has been in the subjective spheres 922,300 years. Not much encouragement for the extreme modern reincarnationists who remember their several previous existences!

 

Should you indulge in any calculations do not forget that we have computed above only full average lives of consciousness and responsibility. Nothing has been said as to failures of Nature in abortions, congenital idiots, death of children in their first septenary cycle, nor of the exceptions of which I cannot speak. No less have you to remember that average human life varies greatly according to the Round.

 

Though I am obliged to withhold information about many points yet if you should work out any of the problems by yourself it will be my duty to tell you so. Try to solve the problem of the 777 incarnations. »

(ML 14, p.83)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OBSERVATIONS

 

Blavatsky specified that the exact numbers cannot be revealed because they are reserved for initiates, but even so if we consider the representative numbers given by Master Kuthumi, that is, one million total years minus 77'700 years of physical life (which are 777 incarnations at 100 years on average each) that gives us 922'300 years of subtle life (the vast majority spent in Devachan).

 

1'000'000 - (777 x 100) = 1'000'000 - 77'700 = 922'300

 

And if we divide those 922,300 years of subtle life between the 777 incarnations, that gives us an average of 1’187 years before reincarnating again.

 

Now, it must be specified that this number is the general average of current humanity, but that it involves great variations: from humans who only take a few weeks, to those who spend several millennia before reincarnating again.

 

And also that this average corresponds to the end of the 19th century, but since then the parameters that influence the duration have increased and therefore most likely the 21st century average has increased.