Chapter 25: Return And RecurrenceA man is what his life is. If he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.
Death is the return to the very beginning of one’s life, with the possibility of repeating it again. Much has been said in pseudo-esoteric and pseudo occultist literature about the subject of successive lives, but it is better if we concern ourselves with successive existences. |
The life of each one of us, with all its seasons, is always the same, repeating itself from existence to existence, throughout the innumerable centuries.
Unquestionably, we continue in the seed of our descendants; this is something which has already been shown.
The life of each particular one of us is a living film, which at death we carry to eternity.
Each of us carries his film with him and returns with it, to project it once again on the screen of a new existence.
The repetition of dramas, comedies, and tragedies is a fundamental axiom of the Law of Recurrence.
In each new existence, the same circumstances are always repeated. The actors in these recurring scenes are those people who live within us, the “I’s”.
If we disintegrate those actors, those “I’s” which originate the ever-repeated scenes of our life, then the repetition of such circumstances becomes more than impossible.
Obviously, without actors there cannot be scenes; this is irrefutable, undeniable. Thus, we can liberate ourselves from the Laws of Return and Recurrence; thus we can truly free ourselves.
Obviously, each of the characters (“I’s”) that we carry within repeats the same role from existence to existence.
If we disintegrate it, if the actor dies, the role concludes. Reflecting seriously on the Law of Recurrence, or the repetition of scenes in each return, we discover, by means of inner self-observation, the hidden influences in this matter.
If in the previous existence, at the age of twenty-five we had a love affair, the “I” from that liaison will indubitably seek the lady of its dreams at the age of twenty-five in the new existence.
If the lady in question was only fifteen years old, the “I” of that affair will seek its beloved at precisely the same age in the new existence.
It is easy to comprehend that the two “I’s”, both his and hers, seek each other telepathically and meet once again to repeat the same amorous adventure as in the past existence.
Two enemies who fought to the death in the past existence will look for each other again in their new existence to repeat their tragedy at the appropriate age.
If two people took legal action over real estate at the age of forty in the past existence, at the same age they will search for each other telepathically in the new existence, to repeat the same.
Inside each of us live many people, with many commitments, this is irrefutable.
A thief carries within a den of thieves with different criminal commitments. The murderer carries within a gang of murderers, and the lecherous in their psyche a brothel.
In all of this, the most grievous thing is that the intellect ignores the existence of such people or “I’s” within itself, and of those commitments, which will inevitably be fulfilled.
All these commitments of the “I’s” which reside within us are fulfilled, below the level of our reason.
They are facts that we ignore, things that happen to us, occurrences that take place in the subconscious and unconscious.
With good reason it has been said, that everything happens to us, just as when it rains or thunders. Really we have the illusion of doing, but we do nothing. Things happen to us, and this is inevitable, mechanical.
Our personality is merely the instrument for different people (“I’s”), through which each one of these people (“I’s”) fulfills its commitments.
Many things happen below the level of our cognitive capacity. Unfortunately, we ignore what happens below the level of our poor reason.
We believe we are wise, when truly, we don’t even know that we don’t know. We are miserable logs tossed on the furious waves of the sea of existence.
To emerge from this misfortune, from this unconsciousness, from such a lamentable state as we find ourselves in, is only possible by dying in ourselves.
How could we awaken without first dying? Only with death comes the new! If the seed does not die, the plant does not sprout.
He who truly awakens acquires, as a result, complete objectivity of consciousness, authentic enlightenment, happiness.
Unquestionably, we continue in the seed of our descendants; this is something which has already been shown.
The life of each particular one of us is a living film, which at death we carry to eternity.
Each of us carries his film with him and returns with it, to project it once again on the screen of a new existence.
The repetition of dramas, comedies, and tragedies is a fundamental axiom of the Law of Recurrence.
In each new existence, the same circumstances are always repeated. The actors in these recurring scenes are those people who live within us, the “I’s”.
If we disintegrate those actors, those “I’s” which originate the ever-repeated scenes of our life, then the repetition of such circumstances becomes more than impossible.
Obviously, without actors there cannot be scenes; this is irrefutable, undeniable. Thus, we can liberate ourselves from the Laws of Return and Recurrence; thus we can truly free ourselves.
Obviously, each of the characters (“I’s”) that we carry within repeats the same role from existence to existence.
If we disintegrate it, if the actor dies, the role concludes. Reflecting seriously on the Law of Recurrence, or the repetition of scenes in each return, we discover, by means of inner self-observation, the hidden influences in this matter.
If in the previous existence, at the age of twenty-five we had a love affair, the “I” from that liaison will indubitably seek the lady of its dreams at the age of twenty-five in the new existence.
If the lady in question was only fifteen years old, the “I” of that affair will seek its beloved at precisely the same age in the new existence.
It is easy to comprehend that the two “I’s”, both his and hers, seek each other telepathically and meet once again to repeat the same amorous adventure as in the past existence.
Two enemies who fought to the death in the past existence will look for each other again in their new existence to repeat their tragedy at the appropriate age.
If two people took legal action over real estate at the age of forty in the past existence, at the same age they will search for each other telepathically in the new existence, to repeat the same.
Inside each of us live many people, with many commitments, this is irrefutable.
A thief carries within a den of thieves with different criminal commitments. The murderer carries within a gang of murderers, and the lecherous in their psyche a brothel.
In all of this, the most grievous thing is that the intellect ignores the existence of such people or “I’s” within itself, and of those commitments, which will inevitably be fulfilled.
All these commitments of the “I’s” which reside within us are fulfilled, below the level of our reason.
They are facts that we ignore, things that happen to us, occurrences that take place in the subconscious and unconscious.
With good reason it has been said, that everything happens to us, just as when it rains or thunders. Really we have the illusion of doing, but we do nothing. Things happen to us, and this is inevitable, mechanical.
Our personality is merely the instrument for different people (“I’s”), through which each one of these people (“I’s”) fulfills its commitments.
Many things happen below the level of our cognitive capacity. Unfortunately, we ignore what happens below the level of our poor reason.
We believe we are wise, when truly, we don’t even know that we don’t know. We are miserable logs tossed on the furious waves of the sea of existence.
To emerge from this misfortune, from this unconsciousness, from such a lamentable state as we find ourselves in, is only possible by dying in ourselves.
How could we awaken without first dying? Only with death comes the new! If the seed does not die, the plant does not sprout.
He who truly awakens acquires, as a result, complete objectivity of consciousness, authentic enlightenment, happiness.