Karma and Reincarnation, Page 25

With the increase of one’s anthroposophical knowledge comes first the recognition and then the inner certainty that the sine qua non to Biblical understanding appropriate for our age of the Consciousness Soul is the perception of the reality of Karma and Reincarnation. As such, it is the key to the evolutionary advancement of humanity.

The eleven scriptures above have been discussed at some length for the purpose of demonstration. But the Bible throughout will glow with richer and deeper meaning for the reader who is suffused with this new understanding. Passages will speak to the soul without the necessity for further comment. Consider, for instance:

Eccles 1,10-11: (10) Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new?” It has been already, in the ages before us. (11) There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

Eccles 3,10-11: (10) I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. (11) He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Eccles 12,1-7: (1) Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; .. . (5) . . . because man goes to his eternal home, . . . (7) and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. (Emphasis added)

Job 8,8-10: (8) “For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found; (9) for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. (10) Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?”

Ezek 16,59-61: (59) I will deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, (60) yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant. (61) Then you will remember your ways, and be ashamed when I take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you. (Emphasis added)

We need not go on listing examples. The student will discover them in abundance as anthroposophical knowledge grows.