Life After Death
Why Reincarnation is impossible from a metaphysical point of view
Jesus delivered a message via Dr. Samuels on March 10th, 1955, however this communication is not easily absorbed. I have quoted it here, and then added an expanded explanation below.
I am here, Jesus.
I am here again to write you about a subject that has created interest among you, the Doctor and others, and that is the article on reincarnation. In the Padgett messages, various communications dealt with the falsity and absurdity of this Oriental doctrine, which holds that the human soul can reincarnate from one fleshly body to others in succession over periods of time and that as a result the soul has an opportunity to lessen its desire to sin and thus finally achieve purification while in the flesh.
If you will examine the question a little more closely, you will see the impossibility of the soul in the spirit world to be reincarnated in the flesh for the reason that the soul, for this supposed phenomenon, would have to shed the spirit body in order to enter into a mortal body, since the soul is incased in a spirit body which is physical in nature but not of a gross material of what mortals call the material world, and that spirit body, which is the envelope and protector of the soul, is that which gives the soul its individuality as a conscious entity and remains with the soul so long as the soul lives. In the spirit world no spirit body has ever been deprived of its soul, and no spirit body thus hypothetically divested of its soul has ever died or been disintegrated, or has disappeared from its habitat, except as it advances from one sphere to another while making progress either to the sixth sphere or spiritual paradise or to the Celestial Heavens and Immortality.
As far as is known today by us in the spirit world, the spirit, that is to say, the soul and its spirit body, may live for all Eternity, if God so requires it, even if it does not possess the consciousness of immortality through possession of Divine Love, and it will certainly continue to live throughout all Eternity - the soul and its indissoluble spirit body - if it does possess the Divine Love, Immortality and At-onement with the Father.
As soul cannot be taken from, or torn from - or in any other way deprived of - its spirit body, once it has come to the spirit world, it would be equally impossible for the spirit body to enter the human body of another human being, for only a soul without a spirit body can enter a human body, and on the death of this body, the soul manifests1 its spirit body. The doctrine of reincarnation is, therefore utterly without foundation, for it is impossible, let me repeat, for a soul with its spirit body to enter a human body to be born again in the flesh.
When a human being dies in the flesh, his soul has already achieved under ordinary circumstances the purpose of his creation, that is, individualization and the creation of receptacles for soul’s, and in his spirit body, in size, shape, appearance and nature, is the complete creation without the envelope of flesh.
This soul appears in the spirit world laden with the inharmonies of its earth life, but since it has the opportunity of eliminating these inharmonies and becoming a purified soul in the spirit world through the exercise of its will and moral force and repentance, or becoming a Divine Angel through prayer to the Father for His Divine Love and Mercy, transforming the soul into the very essence of the Father, it is therefore absolutely unnecessary for the soul to go back to the flesh for another chance to purify itself, for the loving and merciful Heavenly Father had already provided a plan that would enable the soul - the real man - to attain purification, and here God showed Himself to be more merciful than He might have been had He decreed successive trials in the flesh for the process of purification, for man while thus seeking to purify his soul, would at the same time have to contend with the sinful influence of the flesh, and his ultimate purification would thus indefinitely be delayed or perhaps never accomplished until the very end of time. You can thus see that God has shown His Love for His created children by providing a way for them to be purged of their sins, while being free of baleful influences of the flesh, which would only hinder, and make more difficult, their tortuous progress toward purification.
When an unincarnated soul seeks a foetus to occupy, obviously that foetus is within the spirit body of the mother carrying the baby. Because that unincarnated soul has no spirit body of its own at this time, it passes through the spirit body. It can do this because the spirit body is of a material of the spirit realms, but the soul is non-material.
Immediately the soul chooses that foetus, it creates a spirit body around the foetus with the soul at the centre. It does this as a form of protection for that new individual. At this moment we have one spirit body within another - that of the mother. Because of the existence of the spirit body surrounding the foetus, other spirits can tell there is a baby present. They cannot see a soul, but they can see spirit bodies like themselves.
Now a spirit could not reach that foetus because of the presence of the mother’s spirit body. In theory any unincarnated soul could take up residence, and in fact one must acknowledge that after a soul has taken up residence its spirit body would not prevent another unincarnated soul from doing so. We don’t know anything significant about the process of a soul choosing a particular foetus, but there must be some process or mechanism that ensures only one unincarnated soul takes up residence, as otherwise we would - many of us - have twin souls or many more.
So that explains why a spirit cannot obtain a foetus to begin life again. Now we certainly know that they do try, and this typically results in an attachment, and some of these have been recorded by researchers like Ian Stevenson in his 20 Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. I discussed that book in great detail in my own book on Reincarnation.