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Telling human beings that are full of expectation that the only way to attain perfect happiness is through the fulfilment of precepts that they have neither the organs, abilities nor the talents to fulfil, cannot possibly give the individual any joy in existing, nor can it stimulate it to take the first steps in training or practising carrying out these precepts.
As we have already said, such precepts would therefore be in support of the killing principle instead of "universal love".
Can there possibly be anyone who believes that this was what the world redeemer had in mind with his wisdom?
Definitely not.
His testimony concerning "universal love" is much too fervent, compelling and in contact with evolution or life itself.
But if one denies reincarnation, one is this very day taking part in continuing to crucify the world redeemer; one is taking part in misrepresenting or nullifying his truly world-saving wisdom.
Without evolution this wisdom would have absolutely no value.
Were it not for the fact that one is "born again" and one is able, through this new life, to continue to evolve and continue to have experiences that lead to more and more knowledge, and so be able to put right what one has done wrong, one could not possibly "reap" what one has "sown".
To be able to "see" the kingdom of God, as well as to "enter into it", will thereby, as Jesus himself announced to Nicodemus, be absolutely impossible without reincarnation.
It was an obvious fact for the world redeemer that admittance to the "kingdom of God" as a perfect being could not be attained through mere "grace" or the "forgiveness of sins".
If that had been the case, he would have occupied himself solely with "the forgiveness of sins".
He would have had no logical reason whatsoever for spending so much time, energy and effort manifesting precepts, parables and ideals for his disciples and for all other seekers after wisdom, as well as in his talks to the people.
What would in fact be the use of all this display of time and energy, if it were only to manifest precepts that no terrestrial human being could fulfil, and "grace" and "the forgiveness of sins" were actually the crucial factors?
No, as we have seen here, the world redeemer was fully conscious that the ideals could not be realised in one single earthly life, but that this realisation would eventually become a reality for every single being over the course of a number of lives, as the fruit of its own desires, practice, will and experience.
And it is this being's meeting with the highest fruit of its previous lives that he expressly describes as the homecoming of the "prodigal son" or the son's meeting with his Father.
It is at this point that the son of God has realised his mistakes and has thereby arrived at the true acknowledgement and attitude towards his Father and can see his own life and his eternal identity as a son of God.
He has now become the master of matter and consequently of life and death.
He now no longer "sins" (makes mistakes), but acts in a perfect way, being sexually impartial and thereby "all-loving".