By Day of Greenleaf, the Founding Yaiyr
We believe in reincarnation, and also believe in the possibility of becoming so spiritually evolved that we no longer are required to reincarnate. I treat both reincarnation and the intimately related topic of Spiritual Evolution in detail in my book, Teachings of Essene Jesus and Magdalene on Yoga and Meditation.
In regard to reincarnation, Nasareans teach the following main points:
1. Souls reincarnate in order to have appropriate body types for their current stage of development on the Spiral Ladder of Ascension in spiritual evolution.
2. All creatures – not only humans – continue to reincarnate until they reach the level of soul development – via spiritual evolution – where they are no longer required to reincarnate.
3. There is typically a time of rest and reflection between lives wherein a soul contemplates deeply the lessons learned in that incarnation and becomes aware of further lessons that can be learned in the next incarnation.
4. According to various manifestations of Karma – the collective Laws of the Universe including The Law of Cause and Effect – what we do in one incarnation will follow us into our next incarnation (or another future incarnation), as suggested by the following saying of Yahshua: “As you sow in one life, so will you reap in another.” That teaching is echoed by Miriam: “The hurt you cause in the morning will overtake you in the evening.” She similarly declares: “Hurt comes to the hurtful.” But she also makes clear that, as long as we are kind to all creatures, we need not fear our future incarnations: “Yea, I tell you truly, those that are kind to all creatures need not fear their own futures.”
5. Once we are sufficiently evolved and need not reincarnate anymore, we still are free to choose to incarnate in a lower realm where mortal flesh must be worn as a garment if we are to be seen and heard by those that we wish to teach and help. Unless we manifest a body that is within the spectrum of vibration that the people we are ministering to can sense – be aware of – and communicate with, we must remain invisible to them and serve them in other ways such as serving as prayer angels.
In regard to point five above, once we reach a certain level of spiritual evolution we will have angelic bodies that never die. At that point, we are not required to reincarnate anymore. That does not mean we will be done learning and growing – the universe is infinite and we will always have new lessons to learn. But, at that point, WE WILL HAVE TRANSCENDED THE WHEEL OF REQUIRED DEATH AND REBIRTH. However, in order to be seen, touched, and considered “real” by physically incarnated beings of a lower evolutionary level whom we wish to help, we may sometimes CHOOSE to incarnate physically. Such a CHOSEN incarnation motivated by divine compassion rather than bondage to flesh is the act of an “AVATAR.” This explains why Yahshua and Miriam, the SUPREME AVATARS and SUPREME CHRISTS, take physical incarnations even though not bound to the wheel of required physical birth and death: DIVINE COMPASSION!
Countless Heavenly and Hellish Realms. In regard to the related concept of “heaven/s” and “hell/s,” Nasarean Christianity – based on The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way – believes that both Heaven and Hell are VERY REAL. However, our understanding of the nature of heaven and hell is quite different than the mainstream Christian doctrine. The mainstream Christian teaching is that, based solely on this one brief incarnation, you will either go to Heaven forever or will BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. They teach that the vast majority of humans will BURN IN HELL. We reject that teaching as false. The notion that a SUPREME BEING would send the majority of human beings to BURN IN TORTUROUS AGONY FOR ETERNITY based solely on their status in this one brief incarnation is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! Such a “God” would actually be a “Devil!”
Here are five key points in regard to the Nasarean Essene teachings on Heavens and Hells:
1) There is not only one Heaven and one Hell; rather, there are countless Heavenly realms and countless Hellish realms.
2) Beings live in the realm of the universe they deserve to (including the planet they live on), — according to the universal law of karmic justice (CAUSE and EFFECT) that works in conjunction with DIVINE MERCY.
3) Heaven and Hell are experienced first inwardly — as inner states of being — and then become manifest in our outer circumstances as well.
4) Although there are countless heavenly realms – and hell realms – within the Mother Ovum (the Nasarean term for our Universe is “Mother Ovum”), the highest heaven – “Heaven Most High” – is outside of the Mother Ovum, surrounding it as a circumference. Heaven Most High is the home of Jah (God Transcendent) and Jahlah (Goddess Transcendent) and will be the future home of those beings who join the Lord Christ and Lady Christ in their mission of mercy and thereby ascend upon the Spiral Ladder of Being and persevere to eventually enter that highest of the countless heavenly realms.
5) The type of body that you have in any particular realm will always correlate with – be appropriate for – that realm. Thus, the Eternal Self that we call the “Soul” will likely reside in many body types, wearing each like a garment of clothing, moving from one body to the next over the ceaseless duration of Eternal Life. Thus, Nasareans believe in reincarnation, though we also believe that, at a certain stage of our spiritual evolution, we will have a permanent body of light that need not reincarnate. Even at that advanced stage of spiritual evolution in which we are no longer required to reincarnate – the stage where we are said to be “off the wheel of required birth and death” – we may choose to still take occasional incarnations – to reincarnate into physical bodies – in lower realms where those bodies are appropriate AS ACTS OF MERCIFUL INCARNATION to serve as teachers/helpers – “Hands” – of Christ in those worlds.
