Reincarnation
ReIncarnation is a belief present in different Religions. According to this belief, man, after his death, would return on earth in a new body, in order to continue his Purification. This idea is rejected by the Church and Christianity in general. The work of Maria Valtorta also strongly condemns this idea.
In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"
- "How can someone be born again if he is already an adult? Once out of the maternal womb, man can never enter it again. Are you perhaps referring to ReIncarnation which many pagans believe in?" - "There is only one existence for flesh on earth and one life eternal of The Spirit beyond."[1]
- And is it then possible to think that God allows the ReIncarnation of a spirit because there could only be a given number of spirits?[2]
- You must not believe, because spirits have spontaneous memories of the Truth, that this proves we live multiple lives.[3]
- It is an incorrect theory. Souls, once their sojourn on Earth has ended, never return to Earth in any body. Not in an animal, because it is not appropriate that something so supernatural as they are, inhabited a brute. Not in a man.[4]
In the other works of Maria Valtorta
Notebooks 1944
- Catechesis of January 7 : But how could you clothe yourself in a flesh at the moment of my sublime visit and, with it, go to condemnation or glory, if each Soul had had several fleshes? Which one would be chosen? The first or the last? [...] And how could you invoke the Blessed if they were already reincarnated? How to treat your deceased as 'yours,' if at the same time they are the children of other persons?[5]
- Catechesis of January 11 : (The Apostle John to Maria Valtorta) : He tells you repeatedly: "I will raise you up." Could he use an improper word, he who is perfect in science and intelligence? He says Good: "I will raise you up", and not: "I will reincarnate you."[6]
- Catechesis of January 11 : (The Apostle Paul to Maria Valtorta) : The only thing that reincarnates, is this theory that flourishes again like mold at regular times of spiritual obscurity. For, know this, you who consider yourselves the most advanced spiritually, this is a sign of decline and not a spiritual dawn. [...] Foolish men! The dead do not return. In no new body. There is only one resurrection: the final one. [...] What do you then believe? That God, our Almighty, infinite, eternal God, is limited in begetting? That He has a limit which imposes Him to create a certain number of spirits and no more, so that, for the life of men on earth to continue, He must, like a department store salesman, go and pick from the shelves, among all the spirits piled there, the one He will reuse for this specific merchandise?[7]
Notes and references
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