The apostles John and Paul on Reincarnation

And St. Paul thus came as well. Good Heavens! What a hurricane!

"I am not surprised that he swept away even the Athenians, accustomed to their orators, by the forcefulness of his words! If John is a sigh of scented heavenly wind, Paul is a cyclone laden with all the elements capable of bending the proudest peaks.

I think the cycle is complete. And if this whole concert of notes does not penetrate into them… I don’t know what else can penetrate. I had been wishing for one dictation on this subject for months and months. I waited. But I got seven, and if I were in the shoes of certain people, I would feel like a mouse in a trap or a bird in a net. The evidence would close in on me on all sides.

I did not expect that even St. Paul himself would speak.

Now my back is aching, and I am relaxing, gazing with my soul at the golden Divine Dove and sensing Mary at my side. Her words in the morning continue to sing in my heart." From the Pen of Jesus

Peace always,
Stephen

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In continuation of the opening post, @EarthsStudent, the apostle St. John also commented on the falsity of belief in reincarnation, in a transcript he dictated to Maria Valtorta on January 11th, 1944, which you can read in The Notebooks: 1944 (p. 18). Below are his words:

Instructed as I was, penetrated by and made one with the Master, in my Gospel there lives the Word just as it was spoken, for, on account of my union, I was able to repeat it without modifications. It is Christ who speaks. John is nothing but the instrument who writes. Just like you (Maria Valtorta).

Ours is a great destiny, to which one must be faithful even in the smallest details so as not to contaminate divine doctrine with ourselves as creatures, and for the sake of this destiny we must lead a chaste life so that the Word may descend where there is nothing impure, not even the shadow of a thought.

To receive the Word of God is like receiving the Bread of Heaven. He is the Bread of Heaven who becomes a Word for us so as to become Bread in the spirits of our brothers and sisters. He is the Eucharist of the Word, no less holy than the Eucharist of the altar, for, on coming into us, the Eucharistic Christ brings us His Word, which is heard more or less clearly to the extent that the life of the spirit is in us, and, on coming into us, Christ the Master brings us His nourishment, which renders us increasingly capable of making the Eucharist the Food of eternal life.

He, my Master and yours, said so: ‘Blessed are those who keep the Word of God in their hearts.’ And He also said, ‘Whoever listens to My Word has eternal life,’ and ‘I am the living Bread descending from Heaven. Whoever feeds on Me will not die, and I will raise him up on the last day.’ The Master, then, gives a single destiny to whoever feeds on Him—the Word of the Father and the Bread of Heaven.

But I am not speaking so much to you for your sake, disciple who are in the light. I—a light of Christ, of Christ, the Light of the world—am speaking to the ones in darkness, who, like those with scales over their pupils, go groping in the dark and are unable to get onto the path where the Master is passing by; they don’t want to get onto it and cry out, ‘Jesus, save us! Give us your Light!’

If they called Him, He would come to them; He would stay in them and give them the blessed destiny of becoming children of God, born a second time—the only time people can be reborn, not in the flesh, which, when lifeless, will never again clothe the spirit that has had it as a robe, except on the last day, when the spirit will go with it to glory or damnation, but in the spirit, which is regenerated by becoming inserted into Christ, for Christ, on possessing it in Himself, as part of his most holy Being, joins it to the Spirit of God, who is the One who enables us to be reborn, no longer as men, but as children of God—and they would know the Light and separate themselves from Darkness and Deceit, for Christ is Truth and Christ is Light, and the Paraclete, Whom Christ gives to those who are ‘His,’ is Light and Truth, and whoever has Christ has the Truth and the Light of the Triune Divinity in himself.

Leave the eternal Killer, who perished and leads others to perish, for he did not persevere in the truth which, in his fortunate angelic destiny, he had possessed from the first instant of his creation. Believe in Christ, who cannot lie, for He is God and has God’s Perfection.

He tells you over and over again: ‘I will raise you up.’ Could He say an improper word—He, Perfect in Knowledge and Intelligence? He says, ‘I will raise you up’; He does not say, ‘I will reincarnate you.’ And He specifies ‘on the last day’ and further states, ‘As the Father raises the dead and restores them to life, so, too, the Son gives life to whoever He wills… Whoever listens to my word and believes in the One Who sent me has eternal life and does not undergo condemnation, but passes from death to life… The time is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and whoever has heard it will live. The time is coming when all those in the tombs will hear the voice of the Son of God and come out—those who did good, to the resurrection of life; those who did evil, to the resurrection of death.’

Therefore, He who is Truth and Knowledge states, repeats, insists, and swears regarding one life, one alone, of the flesh, and one life, one alone, of the spirit. This life is led in our one day as man and then, only on the last day, at the command of the God Jesus, the flesh rises again to clothe the spirit whose robe it was. This eternal life is obtained only by means of our one day, and if during it we have slain the spirit once, never again can it become reincarnated to pass from death to life through successive stages.

No. The power of God the Father, of God the Son, Jesus, and of God the Spirit Paraclete can give you the resurrection of the spirit on earth through a miracle of grace, or through the intercession of a ‘saint,’ on earth or in Heaven, or through your desire to rise again as well. But this happens here, on Earth, in your one day. Once dusk has come for you and you have entered into the sleep of the human night, there is no longer a possible resurrection through new stages of life. If you are among the spiritually dead, there is only death.

I, a disciple of Christ, I, who have seen the future life beyond life and the final resurrection, swear to you that this is true.

Get free from these chains. They are the most dangerous ones which Satan hurls at you. Take the first step to say to Christ, ‘I am coming to You,’ and to Satan, ‘Back, in the name of Jesus.’ Receive the first truth.

You cannot know how sweet the Lord is—the good Master, the holy Shepherd—to those turning to Him. Like a father, He clasps you to His heart and instructs you, cares for you, and feeds you. Do not say that you love Him. You do not love Him in truth and therefore do not love Him.

The truth is in His Gospel. The Gospel is the one spoken by Him to His disciples and the one He continues to confirm and explain, through His benignity as the Savior. Always the same after so many centuries. There is no other.

If there were a second life, or several others, He would have said so. You are not Parsees or Shintoists—you are ‘Christians.’ Abandon, then, the chimeras, errors, and deceits which Satan prompts to wrest you away from God and believe in what Christ has said.

Whoever loves believes. Whoever loves little doubts. Whoever does not love accepts a contrary doctrine. The doctrine you follow is contrary to that of Jesus Christ, the Word of God, our Master, the Light of the world. You do not, then, love Christ in truth.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

Well….according to one of the Gnostic Gospels (which the Church just so happened to take out of The Bible) Jesus actually did talk about reincarnation. This was when Jesus was a child, which they conveniently left out of The Bible. But yes, according to the current Bible, reincarnation isn’t real.

I’m assuming that John is saying that reincarnation is Satanic, is this correct?

So what is John trying to say here? I’m assuming he’s referring to reincarnation when he says this correct?

What is John trying to say here? Same question here, I’m assuming he’s referring to reincarnation when he says this correct?

Just answer the questions. I need to make sure we’re on the right page, cause you repeat yourself to where I apparently misunderstand you, which is fine, but this is to avoid that.

Well, it would seem like to me, just by reading what John is saying, it would seem to me that he is saying that reincarnation is demonic, or is misleading. At least that’s my interpretation of it. I’m asking for your interpretation, because you repeat yourself a lot, so obviously what I interpret is incorrect in your eyes, which is fine. But in order for me to give my take, I’m asking for your interpretation….

Ok…hope I’m doing this right. Ok…regarding this claim John is making.
“Get free from these chains”
-Maybe this is a context issue on my part, but my question is how is reincarnation enslaving someone?
”They are the most dangerous ones Satan hurls at you.”
-Again, probably a context issue on my part, but how is reincarnation the most dangerous thing Satan can haul at you? I can literally think of a million different things that are worse than reincarnation. Or is he talking about the chains? I’m kind of confused….
”Take the first step to say to Christ, ‘I am coming to You,’ and to Satan, ‘Back, in the name of Jesus.’ Receive the first truth.”
-Ok…what does he mean by first truth? Is he talking about Jesus saving you from eternal damnation? I still fail to see how this has to do with reincarnation….or does it?

Well, yes, if we’re referring to the current Bible, which bothers me to no end, then yeah, of course he didn’t mention a “second life” or “several others.” But in one of the books that was taken out of Scripture, and to be honest the name of the book that has information about reincarnation in it escapes me at the moment, but Jesus does talk about this very subject when he was a kid. But, because we’re talking about the current Bible, no he didn’t say anything about it at all. This is another reason why I’m not Catholic, because I do believe Jesus actually did talk about reincarnation for the simple fact that it’s in one of banned books.

Yes, again if we’re going by what is in the current Bible, yes we are Christians. My belief however doesn’t believe we are “Christians”, rather we are the “Christ." We, ultimately ARE the second coming, and it’s up to us to save ourselves.

So you mean to tell me that reincarnation is Satan trying to lure you away from the truth? Well, according to Christians and Catholics, that yes….quite honestly that’s exactly what’s going on. But I’m not Christian, so this idea doesn’t apply to me. It’s just kind of weird that, at least for a while, people actually believed this at one point. I’m a purist, the Bible did state this from the mouth of Jesus at one point, granted this was when Jesus was a kid, but still, he did talk about this.