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Divine Principle&

Reincarnation

Introduction

v. 1

Short Vocabulary:AGS =Absolute Good SpiritsCBG = Chambumo Gyeong, Holy TextbookCSG = Cheon Seong Gyeong, Holy TextbookCIG = Cheon Il Guk, Two persons become one, KoHCSW =Cheonji Sunhak Won (Museum)CP = Cheong Pyeong, Spir. training ground KoreaDP = Divine Principle, v1973 EDP = Divine Principle, v1996ODP = Original Divine Principle, 2008KoH = Kingdom of Heaven LSA = Lord of Second AdventOT = Old TestamentNT = New TestamentCT = Completed TestamentTF = True Father, SMM = Sun Myung MoonTM = True Mother, Hak Ja Han MoonTTM = Textbook and Teaching MaterialUC = Unification ChurchSee also extended Vocabulary:http://www.slideshare.net/bdp003/vocabulary-uc

Introduction

• The Divine Principle teaches Reincarnation is wrong, and caused by misunderstanding/misinterpretation of Returning Resurrection.

In Asia people talk not about the principle of rebirthbut about the theory of reincarnation, which is a Buddhist idea.

They view returning resurrection as such aphenomenon, because they just see it as a single instance. They do not see the whole picture.

Spirit people in the spirit world want to benefitthrough people on earth. This is their request.

Original people who have not fallen are valuable beings who can manage the angelic world and the universe.

Due to the Fall, people dropped several levels downward and consequently must go back up to that original position.

In ascending, however, they do not do so in one stepbut through stages, restoring individuals,families, tribes, people, nations, the world, and all the way up to the cosmos.

Going up each stage inevitably requires indemnity.

Crossing over each stage inevitably requires conditions of indemnity, like in the case of Cain and Abel.

Even if a spirit named A has been helping through this age up to this point, he cannot cross over into the next stage just like that.

There must be a period of indemnity. It is not finished in a day or two but rather over a period of time, such as seven years, forty years, seventy years, or even afew centuries.

Since spirit A, who has been helping up to this point, cannot continue his ascent before his period of indemnity ends, he returns to the spirit world. Spirit A wants someone on earth called B to lay the foundation, but if B fails to indemnify within the period and dies, spirit A chooses someone else called C and waits impatiently to return through C. Thus, the spirit who returns to C is the same A who had returned to B.

Suppose the spirit person is Paul. If A, through whom he returns in an attempt to ascend through each stage over the ages, fails to indemnify within that period and dies, Paul returns through B and helps him and ascends. There must be an indemnity period.

According to the Principle, indemnity is not accomplished in a short time. For this reason, if B, the second chosen person, does not indemnify, the next person C is chosen for coming again. So eventually, Paul will have returned through C.

If B were to leave a message or were to do something, he would say that he is working with Paul’s assistance now. Likewise, C in the next age

will also say in the message that he is working with Paul’s assistance and that he is even Paul himself. This way, it looks as if Paul’s spirit appeared in B and again in C around the world.

Looking only at such a phenomenon, people call it (wrongly) reincarnation.

It appears like it is this phenomenon of reincarnation.

People speak like this, because they do not see the whole picture. Such phenomena will appear in this age as well until the global and cosmic ages.

Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven, The Empyrean by Gustave Doré (1832–1883).

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The spirits of people who died before they could reach perfection during their earthly life can be resurrected only by returning to earth and completing their unaccomplished responsibility through cooperation with earthly people (p. 144).

2.3 The Providence of Resurrection for Spirits2.3.1 Purpose and Way of Returning Resurrection

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We call this process returning resurrection (p. 145).

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2.3 The Providence of Resurrection for Spirits2.3.1 Purpose and Way of Returning Resurrection

2.3.2 The Returning Resurrection of the Spiritsof Israelites and Christians

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After the advent of Jesus, the form spirits of the Old Testament age ( ) all returned to earth and assisted faithful people on earth ( ) to attain the level of life spirit.

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By this, they too received the same benefit: they entered Paradise together. We call this growth-stage-returning resurrection.


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After the Second Advent, the life spirits of the New Testament Age ( ) will all return to the earth to help faithful people on earth ( ) to attain the level of divine spirit.


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By this, they too will receive the same benefit and enter the heavenly kingdom together. We call this completion-stage-returning resurrection (p. 146).

2.3.2 The Returning Resurrection of the Spiritsof Israelites and ChristiansMoses

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2.3.3 The Returning Resurrection of Spirits Who Abide Outside of Paradise

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A spirit who believed in religions other than Christianity during his lifetime seeks a counterpart among the earthly people of the same religion as he believed during his earthly life. He descends to the person of his choice and guides him.

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When he helps that person fulfill the purpose of the providence of restoration, they both receive the same benefit (p. 147).

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Good spirits who lived a conscientious life descend to good people on earth and cooperate with them. In the process, the spirits receive the same benefits as the people they have helped.

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In order for evil spirits to receive the benefit of returning resurrection, their works must have the effect of punishing earthly people to help them make conditions to indemnify their failures, which have frustrated God’s past efforts to cleanse them of their sins (p. 148).

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2.4 The Theory of Reincarnation Examined in Lightof the Principle of Returning Resurrection

Spirits who could not complete their missions during their earthly life must return to people on earth who share the same type of mission as they had during their lifetime (p. 149).

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When a spirit assists an earthly person to fulfill God’s Will, the person will fulfill not only his own mission, but also the mission of the spirit who has helped him.

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Hence this earthly person may sometimes be called by the spirit’s name (second coming of the spirit) and appear to be the reincarnation of that spirit.

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Source: DP Color slide presentation

Originally, people were not supposed to live under Satan’s rule but rather within the realm of God’s direct dominion.

Yet due to the Fall, they have come to live in the fallen domain. In order to escape from this fallen domain, they must pay indemnity as individuals and as families. Without indemnifying this, they cannot escape.

Each stage looks like a phenomenon of reincarnation or transmigration of souls, because spirit people must appear in each age through the returning phenomenon.

People who are supposed to live in God’s direct dominion of goodness live instead in the fallen dominion, and thus must escape from the evil dominion. This is why such things happen.

Jesus did it spiritually. So did Christianity.

From this point of view, the Unification Principle of Resurrection conforms exactly to the realities of the spirit world.

In other words, it teaches you the formulas of the spirit world. So far, countless religious people have experienced these unknown facts of the spirit world but have not understood them clearly.

When you hear this principle, however, do not just learn it as a theory. It is difficult enough to find this principle itself, but you must practice it in your own life and achieve victory.

In other words, instead of just learning about Noah’s family, Abraham’s family, Jacob’s family, the age of Moses, John the Baptist, and the age of Jesus and stopping there, it involves understanding about them all, paying indemnity for them, and equipped yourself with the restored foundation of victory.

Only by establishing a nation can we transcend paradise. Paradise is the same as a waiting room before going to heaven. If errors remain that were committed by Adam, Noah, Abraham and Jacob as they underwent the process of restoration, these must all be indemnified.

Without indemnity being paid, horizontal development cannot take place.

From this point of view, we can know how important a nation is. If we have a nation, we will not fall away.

Source: CSG 2006: Book 5 Chapt 7 Section 5. Returning Resurrection and the Assistance of Spirits

1948

In 1948, Israel became independent; therefore, some might think it reasonable for the Lord to come back to Israel.

Korea also became independent in 1948. However, Korea was liberated from Japanese colonization, in contrast to modern Israel's situation. Conceivably both countries may have become independent at the same time because the physical Israel inherited something from the spiritual Israel, Korea.

References:Main Source: CSG 2006: Book 5 Chapt 7Section 5. Returning Resurrection and the Assistance of Spirits

Divine Principle: www.unification.net/dp96

Speeches by Sun Myung Moon: www.tparents.org/Lib-Moon-Talk.htm

http://www.tparents.org/Lib-Moon-Talk.htm

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