The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-04-03
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strument, the temporary s'coat Of skim
used by the Ego" for the gaining Of ex-
perience for the real mar lis more than
than we see between his hat and his
boots. Modern science, human reason
and esoteric philosophy insist upon evo-
luton. A complete and consistent
theory OF evolution demands r%elncarna-
ton. Theosophy does not teach fatal
ism or predestinatlon as contained in
Confessions of faith" but it does insist
oupn the law OF compensation, causa.
ton, or rs Paul declared cas- q man
sows. so shall he reap" Prof. III, Drum
mond asks: GLOW Is the soul to escape
to heaven il it has neglected for a life
time the means OF escape from the world
and self and where is the capacity for
heaven to come from if not developed on
earth?" Rev. Beecher in the Conflict
OF Religions" said: It (re~incarnation)
is an absolute necessity to Christianitv;
without it Christianity is illogical; with
it Is logical" Rsy. W. Alger in "a
Critical History OF the Doctrine OF a
Future Life" says chat after fifteen
years study OF the subject he had come
to the conclusion that the doctrine was
true and necessary. "Whom do men
say that I am" asked Jesus OF his dlci-
pies and they answered, "Some say thou
art John. the Baptist, some Elias" aud
Jeasus told them Elias had already
come as John, and in Mark IL, 16 we
read: "When Herod heard thereofhe said
1T is John (the Baptist) whom I be-
headed; he is risen from the dead"
Does not this show belief in %reincapfla-
ton among the Jews? A belief not re-
buked or corrected by the Master. In
Revelation we find hat he that over
cometh II shall make a pillar y x and
he shall go out no more"-}1e must have
gone out before. "Who did SIN, this man
or his parents hat he is born blind?'
(John TX, y. Herc il direct evidence OF
belief in reincarnation by the dlciples for
how could he have sinned before birth
to have merited blindness. if he had not
lived before? Micah prophesies the com
ing again OF one whose going forth had
been from everlasting. There are m INV
other proofs in the Christian bible OF
this belief. 1t was held by the Pharisees
(Josephus Antq. XVLII. The younger
HeImont adduces 200 problems in it's
favor according to jewish ideas, It is
believed by about 800, OOO,OOOo Of the hui
man family: the belief Of the Brahmans,
Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Suri-Moham-
medans and others; it is taught in the
ancient teachinSs and was a doctrine OF
the Christian church udtii rejected by the
counsel OF Constantinople, about 553
A. D., and the dogmas OF heaven and
hell substituted, Gibbons Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire and J.L. Mos
helms History Of the Early Christian
Church). The Cambridge Platonists de-
Tended it; such intellectual giants as
More, Hume, Schopenhauer, Fichte.
Herdsr and Leasing accepted it as a fact.
Science proves that a IS the result
OF evolut* "A gradual u~nio|dment; the
Greco a that a soul is newly created
for g.. body. Rslncarnation harmoni-
ses science and religion. 1t may sound
euphonious to say that "God sends the
little children,' aud beneath the surface
it is true but not as generally accepted.
Olive Schrelner writes II suppose my
father said so when he knew he was dy-
ing OF consumption, and my mother
when she knew she had nothing to sup.
port me on, and thew created me to be
fed from strange hands. Men do not say
God sends the books or the machines
they make \ \ when there has been no
legal contract who sends the little chll-
dren them" Sentiment is not always
..ADod sense. Emerson SAWS that nature
has a ::hlgher end in the production OF
new individuals than security OF species
namely, ascension or passage of the
soul into higher FORMS" and Cacly}e
that death and birth are the vesper
and matin balls that summon mankind
to sleep and to rise refreshed for new ad-
v~anceinent.' Last evening our Tired
bodies fell asleep, just when we don't
know; awaklng refreshed this morning
to do what had been left undone yester-
dav. The soul was on a higher plane
aud the brain has no recollection for it
could not receive such impressions, vet
what we are this morning is the sum to-
tai OF all our past DAYS. "The butterfly
can not recall the tina when a chrvs-
allies suspended by a thread, nor the
twilight existence during which its larva
crawled from plant to plant, nor the
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