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THE DOCTRINE OF REINCARNATION.
WHY IT IS REJECTED BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN, GREEK AND HINDU BELIEFS,
INTERESTING SERMON BY THE CATHEDRAL CHAPLAIN.
Preaching at the Cathedral last Sunday morning on the subject of Reincarnation, and the Christian teaching on that doctine the Rev. H. Copley Moyle took his text from
OCTOBER 26th, 1927.
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When
such experiences nor have I spoken with anyone who has, but had such experiences they may be even if there are people who have accounted for in other ways than by: long forgotten, tricks of the brain, started its operations about three transmigration. Actual happenings!
the tramar company I. Cer. 13, 1:-Death is swa-old photographs on the retins of the years ago there was considerable lowed up in victory.
eye, unknown by-ways of memory..
*
For most people there is a great that our "aubliminal consciousness" foreigners. The latter frowned on will account for much. It may be opposition from many Chinese and fascination in che unknown. Curiosity is natural, though it may may be able to inherit impressions the introduction of the trams be- become a vice if allowed to go to received by an ancestor, which as excess. New experiences are de general rule remain in subcon- cause it would mar the charm of lightful and are always a source of scious regions.
Peking, while Chinese opposed it It is often assorted that the because of the fear that thousands satisfaction ig taken aright. Who can ever forget his first trip abroad!j doctrine of re-hearnation is in tries and new people is not easily hardly be claimed, because it is thus thrown out of employment. the fascination of seeing new cous-harmony with the modern scientific of poor Chiasse who depended upon belief in evolution. but this can ricsha-palling for a living would be forgotten. I suppose' most of us eah remember the keen enjoyment tauglit that the conditions of re
In order to conciliate Chinese op- of our Brat voyage out here. How birth depend on the doings in the position, the management of the full of interest we found the "dif. previous life, so the result of a company hgreed to give $30,000 to ferent ports as we came to them. wicked life would be rebirth in an the General Chamber of Commercr Port Said, the gateway of the East, inferior body, and some believers to cover the initial expenses of Colombe, with its gay colours and in transmigration have held that opening a factory for the poor, in dark skinned people, and its "spicy men can be reborn as mere animals addition to 8500 a month for the breezes. Singapore, which gave us
upkeep of the factory. This allow a foretaste of Chinese conditions.
chamber to collect the money have ance has been in arrears since last January and all efforts of the been so far without avail.
A Füm Presentation Of The Doctrine.
The chamber complains that the company, has been "guilty of dis elimination, as only recently it paid 93,000 to the Peking munici pality. The municipality receives 81,000 a month from the company as its contribution to the mainten- ance of Peking roads.
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The Buddhist Belief. How delightful to see all this for Copliston, says Buddhism does not The writer pn Buddhism, Bishop the first time. I often think that hold that there is any such as an it is one of the great disadvantages independent, soul, existing in or with of being very rich (a condition from the body, or migrating from one which most of us are never likely body to another. The self or per- to suffer) that it makes it so east, sonality has no permanent reality; to go everywhere and that the world it is but the result of certain crases to have the fascination of the elements come together a combina unknown and becomes boring and·
tion of faculties and characters. tedious. Even the seeing of new No one of these elements is a per- places can be carried to success and san, or soul or selt, but to their lose all its charm.
combination the name self is pro- It is perhaps this fascination of perly applied. The death of a man the unknown which makes us all so is the breaking up of this combina- interested in hearing of life after tion of both the body and of the death. As we like to be told about rest of that aggregate of faculties a country to which we are about to and characters on which life depend- make a journey, so we all listened. Life then is combination. engerly to what men have to say separate those elements and life is about life after death, for we know at an end. If they never combined that they are speaking of a country there would be no life, no self, no to which we are going sooner or personality. But as things are later.
there is at work in the world a fórre by which these elements tend to combine. No sooner has a man The other day. I went to the scattered than they enter under the died and his life elements been cinema and saw a picture called pressure of this force into new com- The Love of Sunya, which was binations. A new life is the re- supposed to be founded on the sult. There is a fatal tendency to theory of reincarnation. In Ancient reproduce life (it arises out of past Egypt a priest in a temple had action, and its name Kaima) wronged a girl who fled there for and no sonner is a man dend than refuge and he and the girl were he is hurried on to some other life supposed to be reincarpated in the by a new combination In Buddhist Or person of an American gipsy man thought there is ny permanent dis- and of a young American The picture can hardly be called tinction between human life and
Lother kinds or grades of life. | ON propagandist" as it did not seemWhen the life elements by which to make any effort to popularise the man lived break up, they may idea of re-incarnation but merely reunite to form either a man or a took the suggestion of reincarnation deity or a dog. He goes according as the foundation of the plot. Let
to his Karma." us this morning for a few minutes turn our thoughts to the subject of re-incarnation, or as it is sometimes called metempsychosis or trans- migation-the doctrine of the pus- sage of the soul from one body to
**That Monstrous Corruption." another. The belief appears among
Dr. Mozley speaks very strongly many savage races in the form that on the subject of metempsychosis. they thought the ancestral souls re- It is that, monstrous "corruption turn and impart their likeness to which preyed like a cancer upon all their descendants, but no ethical the belief in the soul's immortality. value was attached to the belief.
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The doctrine of metempsychosis is an organie "corruption of the con- Re-incarnation first appears as a reption of a future-life, because it factor in the gradual purification of the root of such a conception
interferes with that which lies at the spiritual part of man. and its return to God, the source and Personal identity.I am the same origin of all things, in the religion person throughout the whole of my of the ancient people of India. From life here. Eternal life is being the
Brussels same person throughout" eternity. there it passed to the Egyptians, But the doctrine of metempsychosia..
Amsterdam--- and from there to the Creeks, acutterly confounds, at the very out-
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Copenhagen dotur. But modera investigation
Vienna into the Egypian records shows that But in this career of one person who becomes several men in succession.
Helsingfors Hérodotus was wrong. The Egypt an innumerable crowd of per ians did not believe in metempsy-san, personal identity is confound- chasis. All that they believed wasd wholly nad so a future life at that certain privileged souls could assume other forms at pleasure in the rout vitiated. Shall I who live the other world, they did not regard be the same person that will them as being in any way tied to live in a future life, or will that those forms. Herodotus misunder-person be different from myself. I cannot understand upon this doc stood the belief of the Egyptians trine how he will be the same per and too hastily jumped to the con-
son with myself; but; it he will be clusion that they were believers jo re-incarnation, as it was held by different persons, I have no interest
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by some of the Greeks. No doubt in the question of eternity at all". the Greek belief in re-incarnation came in some way from India. It was one of the characteristic doe- trines of Pythagoras, and Plato be lieved that the souls of men during a period of 10,000 years inhabit the bodies of different men and animals. Aristotle on the other hand did not accept the belief in re-incarnation. The doctrine is opposed to the full consciousness it exista in grow- The doctrine was introduced teaching of the Bible and of Chris- ing happiness and increasing holi- amongst the Romans by Ennius: tianity. It rests entirely on un-Boss in company with those whom allusion to it are found in Horace preved assertions, and would fasten it has loved on earth, awaiting the and Virgil
in those who hold it the dismal day of resurrection, when the soul! Regarded As A Heresy By The prospect of innumerable lives, and spirit reunited to a spiritualised
Christian Church,
of which may be miserable, and une) body,will be enlled to the full enjoy. Amongst some of the Gnostics it of which will have any recollection ment of the presence of God which is to be found. Some of the early of the past sing for which they are we speak of as Heaven. So will Christian Fathers condemn it, and being punished, or of the good death be swallowed up in victory.. the only Christian writer who seems deeds which have won them a rise Our Blessed Lord, in His words to in the ladder of life, and it takes the penitent thief on the cross to have held it was Origin who was condemned for his opinions on the away all prospects of reunion with To-day shall thou be with me in PILLS subject, the universal opinion of the those we love in the next world, Paradise has taught us that per Christian Church being pronounced for the soul of the father or mother, sonal identity persists through in the sentence," If any one asserts the child or husband or wife will death, which is the beginning of a be in some other body and un the fabulous pré-existence of souls,
new and happier life, a life of let him be anathemia."
That we
recognizable. In contrast to the growth and purification and of in- have lived before is an assertional prospect afforded by the creasing holiness and knowledge. for which there is no proof. It is theory of reincarnation the Chris- but in that life we shall still be have tian faith teaches us that the soul ourselves and we shall have the many people memories of events and persons and is conscious after death and still memory of our previous life--and scenes apparently wholly unconnect Preserves its conscious identity. The of our past actions that is the ed with our present state of exist. soul of the faithful Christian passes Christian belief and it seems to mo ence, and that this goes to prove to the rest of Paradise, where in to be infinitely preferable to the
(Continued on text Column.) dismal theory of re-incarnation.. our pre-existence. I have never had
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