748. Indeed, such perishing is not only a necessity; it is also to a large extent an absolute improvement.Think, for example, of a human being with a defective or crippled organism.Would it not be a divine blessing for such a being to be able to look forward to the possibility of the creation of a new, faultless or perfect organism?Would the same thing not apply to beings with bodies bound by old age?For beings with such old and worn-out bodies rebirth would actually be a resurrection in a new, glorious body, which in turn can give them the experience of a new radiant youth, asserting themselves in a new period of creative maturity and resting in a new blissful old age.But it is not only this abundantly flowing wealth of divine blessing that rebirth brings with it.It also reveals to perfection the radiant law of justice in the universe, or the fact that the entire universe is culminating love.With the experience of the immortal I's ability to replace continuously, through its eternal superconsciousness, a defective, damaged or worn-out organism with a new one, the thickest veil concealing the entire mystery of fate drops away before our very eyes like dew in the sun.And we can now see this fate in an all-eclipsing heavenly light.The previously so tightly impenetrable dark shadows, which we imagined to be injustice, hell, the work of the devil or evil itself, are now revealed in all their details bathed completely in this superterrestrial light.And we see that we all find ourselves today, not only in the midst of an eternal existence, but also in the very midst of our own result of our eternal being.We see that our present fate, and the daily more or less happy or unhappy condition that is a result of it, is not simply a result of our present, short, physical life on Earth, and cannot be a result of chance coincidences either, but can in itself exist as only an absolute result of a previously existing infinite number of creative processes, releases of will and fulfilments of wishes that we ourselves have staged and experienced.One's physical fate is the inheritance that the immortal I or eternal essence brings with itself into every new physical life, thanks to the law of love that supports the universe.And through this clear-sightedness that we have acquired, every being's current mental step is something that is taken for granted, just as it is a clearly acknowledged fact that all beings are not born on the same step in their present life, or are equally mentally or intellectually gifted, or have the same light or happy fate.
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