I don’t know about you – but
I’m finding it fascinating to discover just how many famous believers in
reincarnation there were (and are)!
Here are a few more such believers, starting with a former British Prime
Minister:
David Lloyd George: "The conventional heaven with its angels
perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist
for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated."
George Harrison: "Friends
are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even
if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till
I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere
before, you know."
Henry David Thoreau: "Why
should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal
coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes."
Carl Jung: "My life
often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end. I had the
feeling that I was an historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding
and succeeding text was missing. I could well imagine that I might have lived
in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to
answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given
to me."
Koran: "God generates beings, and sends them back over
and over again, till they return to Him."
Socrates: "I am confident that there truly is such a thing
as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of
the dead are in existence."
Rudyard Kipling: “They will come back–come back again–as long as the
red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would
squander souls?”
Balzac: "All human
beings go through a previous life. Who
knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be
brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual
worlds?"
Somerset Maugham: "Has it occurred to you that transmigration is
at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the
evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear
them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our
future lives will be less afflicted.”
Thomas Edison: “The only survival I can conceive is to start a new
Earth cycle again.”
William Butler Yeats: “Many times man lives and dies...”
Kahlil Gibran: “A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and
another woman shall bear me.”
Plotinus (Greek philosopher & founder of Neo-Platonism,
204-270): "Thus a man, once a ruler, will be made a slave because he
abused his power and because the fall is to his future good. Those that have
money will be made poor -- and to the good poverty is no hindrance. Those that
have unjustly killed are killed in turn, unjustly as regards the murderer but
justly as regards the victim, and those that are to suffer are thrown into the
path of those that administer the merited treatment. It is not an accident that
makes a man a slave; no one is a prisoner by chance; every bodily outrage has
its due cause. The man once did what he now suffers. A man that murders his
mother will become a woman and be murdered by a son; a man that wrongs a woman
will become a woman, to be wronged."
Gustav Mahler: "We all return. It is this certainty that gives
meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in
a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the
individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the
pure which goes on in each incarnation."
Rudolf Steiner: (Austrian philosopher and spiritualist, 1861-1925)
claimed in his book Reincarnation & Karma to have gained many mystical
insights into the mysteries of life and the afterlife. "Thoughts that
deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an
inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as
torment, as disharmony."
Finally (at least for now!):
Pythagoras
According to Pythagorean
teaching, the soul survives physical death. After a series of reincarnations,
each one following a period of psychic cleansing in spiritual environments, the
soul becomes free eternally from the cycle of reincarnations.
There – I hope you agree
that my most recent posts have given a good cross-section of famous believers
in reincarnation?
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