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THE PRE-MORTAL WORLD, CHAPTER 7 OF REINCARNATION 

Pages 62 to 67

For a wise and glorious purpose,

Thou hast placed me here on earth,

And withheld the recollection

Of my former friends and birth.

Yet, ofttimes a secret something

Whispered: “You’re a stranger here,”

And I felt that I had wandered

                                                From a more exalted sphere.

-Eliza R. Snow

“Oh My Father”, v. 2

There is an inequality among mortals on earth that is difficult to explain or understand: Why does a just and fair God send spirits to earth in such different and unequal bodies and circumstances? Some people are born rich, others poor; some are born healthy, while others are sickly; some are more intelligent or talented than others; some come into beautiful, lush surroundings, while others begin their lives in hot barren deserts or cold polar regions. Irving Cooper, a noted Christian author, wrote:We are unequal physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually, while opportunity and limitation seem always to be playing a game of tag with our plans.

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LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE, Chapter 6 of Reincarnation 

Pages 55 to 61

It was called their first estate. They were agents there just as much as you and I are here. They could obey the law that was given to them, or they could disobey that law. (Orson Pratt, JD 19:316)

Experience is the ability to participate, to perceive, to understand, and to gain knowledge by living through certain events. Merely being alive or conscious is the basis of gaining experience. Because a person can learn from these experiences, he is better qualified to make choices. Simply being conscious and aware of events happening around him, or to him, will give an individual positive or negative experience.

Likewise, spirits in the Spirit World go through a series of events giving them experience. Some choose to do good, while others select evil, i.e.:

God gave his children their free agency even in the spirit world, by which the individual spirits had the privilege, just as men have here, of choosing the good and rejecting the evil, or partaking of the evil to suffer the consequences of their sins. Because of this, some even there were more faithful than others in keeping the commandments of the Lord. (Doc. of Sal., Jos. Fldg. Smith, 1:58)

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A HISTORY OF REINCARNATION, Chapter 5 of Reincarnation 

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The Second Comforter, Chapter 4 of Teaching of the Doctrine of Eternal Lives

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A DIRECTION OR A DECEPTION?, Chapter 4 of Reincarnation Pages 24 to 25 and Prayer: The Key to Greater Knowledge, Chapter 3 of Teachings of the Doctrine of Eternal Lives Pages 24 to 29

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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Col. 2:8)

Sermons, writings and philosophies may contain a certain amount of truth, but if the whole is based on a false premise, any result therefrom is a false conclusion. Many theories and concepts have beautiful sentiments, elegant demonstrations, and appealing rewards, and still tend to lead a person into misunderstandings and error.

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REASONS FOR BELIEVING, Chapter 3 of Reincarnation

and Chapter 2 of Teachings on the Doctrine of Eternal Lives. 

Pages 19 to 23

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Reincarnation moves in a circle; the gospel in an ascending spiral. (Evid. & Recon., Widtsoe, 1960 ed., p. 369)

There are a multitude of reasons why people have claimed a belief in reincarnation, some of the major ones being:

 

It explains the inequality in people’s lives relating to time, location, and conditions of their birth.Some people die too young to have enough temporal experience.It gives everyone a chance to live longer on earth.It gives everyone a chance to correct serious mistakes, and to live a better life “next time”.Nearly everyone eventually can reach heaven, Nirvana, or exaltation.

Besides these reasons for wanting to be born again, there are many spiritual, mystical or unexplained powers that have caused people to believe that they have lived before and will live again. It is interesting to consider some of these:

Clairvoyance.  This is the ability to see things which are not visible to the normal human eye; it is a second sight or intuitive perception.

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DEFINITIONS, Chapter 2 of Reincarnation 

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Pages 12 to 18

Apostle John A. Widtsoe also thought it to be unbelievable:

Under this doctrine our next-door neighbor may be the reincarnation of a man or a woman who lived centuries ago; our bootblack may be the reincarnation of one of the great philosophers of the past; our school teacher may have been an untutored savage a thousand years ago; our present dog, Sanko, may be nothing else than our dog, Fido, long since dead, in a more recent incarnation. And what is worse, the animating essence, the “soul,” of Sanko, may be the former “soul” of a Newton, or a Galileo, or a Plato! Or, the wife who cooks our meals for us, may have been in an earlier reincarnation, the Queen of Sheba. Or, still more to our confusion, a man’s wife might have been his husband when he was a woman in an earlier reincarnation. (Evidences and Reconciliations, Widtsoe, 1960 ed., arr. by Homer Durham, p. 365)

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It has been estimated that almost half of the population of the world believe in some form of rebirth into another mortal life. For this reason it cannot be simply shrugged off as another superstition or unpopular religious concept.

To really understand this belief, it requires considerable study into the history, philosophy and sacred writings of the present and the past-leading one through such areas as “Divine Ka”, “Karma”, “Cosmic Law”, “Intuitive Faculty”, “Astral Nature”, “Cosmic Consciousness”, and many others. It will take a person into the darkest jungles of Africa, through the temples of the ancients, and among the customs of pagans, Christians and even atheists.

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THE GENUINE AND THE COUNTERFEIT Pages 229 to 240 of Four Crafts 

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CONCLUSION:

We Can’t Serve Two Masters

Nearly everything pertaining to God can be, and usually is, duplicated by the devil, who is the master imitator, forger, counterfeiter, and deceiver. Lehi warned his son Jacob, “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.” (2 Nephi 2:11) And in our day, Joseph Smith warned us:

False prophets always arise to oppose the true prophets and they will prophesy so very near the truth that they will deceive almost the very chosen ones. * * * In relation to the kingdom of God, the devil always sets up his kingdom at the very same time in opposition to God. (TPJS, p. 365)

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Under the Color of Law Pages 212 to 228 of Four Crafts

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Government politicians and kingcrafters succeeded in driving the Mormons out of the United States and then enjoyed taking over their lands and buildings. With the sweet taste of success, they decided to once again benefit from the assets of the hard-working Saints in the Salt Lake Valley; so they tried to use their military powers to rob them again. Since this attempt was unsuccessful, they approached it from another angle–they would resort to lawyers. By acting under the color of law, the kingcrafters could continue their legal piracy until both church and personal property would be confiscated. After all, politicians and lawyers are close bedfellows.

Kingcraft Extends to the Rocky Mountains, Pages 200 to 211 of The Four Crafts 

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The killing of Joseph Smith was not enough for the corrupt politicians. On January 1845, the state legislature repealed the Nauvoo Charter, leaving the Mormon city without a secular government nor any military protection.

One of those indicted for the murder of Joseph and Hyrum was Senator Jacob C. Davis, but he never winced under the charges, although he, too, had played his part in the deed. Again, on October 29, 1845, Governor Ford sent a letter to the leaders in Nauvoo in which he told them to leave Illinois rather than to stay there in a continual war–as he was to willing to offer them any protection.

So in the dead cold of winter nearly 20,000 Mormons began to move westward beyond the boundaries of the United States. As they made their journey, however, the government interfered again. Another political edict demanded that 500 Mormon recruits help in fighting a war for them. If they refused, an army would be sent out to destroy the Saints. And this was happening in America?!

The Saints were being driven out of the United States by its politicians; yet at the same time these kingcrafters were enlisting the able-bodied and much needed Mormon men to go fight a war for the very country that was expelling them.

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