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Reincarnation - John the Baptist is Elijah

Evidence of Reincarnation in the Gospels
A Short Essay
By Rev. Dr. Ray C. Pasold
Copyright 2004 Sacred Eternal Life Fellowship

Written Evidence
The Bible Gospels and the Aquarian Gospel provide written evidence that John the
Baptist was Elijah, which indicates that reincarnation is real. The words of Jesus are in RED.
Aquarian Gospel evidence is in:
Chapter 2, Verses 8 & 9
8) Your wife will bear to you a son, a holy son, of whom the prophet wrote,
9) Behold, I send Elijah unto you again before the coming of the Lord; and he will level down
the hills and fill the valleys up, and pave the way for him who shall redeem.
Chapter 103, Verse 23
23) Behold I say, This man whom Herod bound in chains and cast into a prison cell is Gods
Elijah come again to earth.
Chapter 129, Verses 35 to 39
35) But Peter said, The scribes have taught that e'er the king shall come Elijah must appear.
36) And Jesus said, Elijah has already come; but scribes and Pharisees received him not;
37) And men reviled him, bound him, cast him in a prison cell, and shouted with a fiends
delight to see him die.
38) What men have done to him, that they will do to me.
39) Then the disciples understood that Jesus spoke of John whom Herod slew.
The Bible Gospels evidence is in:
Matthew 11, Verse 14
14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. (NIV) 14
And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come. (DRV)

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Matthew 17, Verses 10 to 13
10 The disciples asked him, Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come
first?
11 Jesus replied, To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.
12 But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him
everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.
13 Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist. (NIV)
10 And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first?
11 But he answering, said to them: Elias indeed shall come, and restore all things.
12 But I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him not, But have done unto him
whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son of man shall suffer from them.
13 Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of John the Baptist. (DRV)
Luke 1, Verse 17
17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the
fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteousto make ready a
people prepared for the Lord. (NIV)
17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias: that he may turn the hearts of the
fathers unto the children and the incredulous to the wisdom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord a
perfect people. (DRV)
Commentary
The type of reincarnation spoken of in these gospels has little to do with the Eastern
religions and their belief system, the transmigration of Souls. In this belief, Souls incarnate as
creatures or humans, depending upon their Karma. You could have been a worm, a cow, or a
human. In fact, you might just reincarnate as a tiger, eagle, worm or cow.
This written evidence of the Gospels is also at variance with the current Theory of
Evolution and the believed evolutionary progression of protoplast to beast, and then to human.
These beliefs are NOT in line with Spiritual experience nor the teachings of the Christ, as
shown here in the Aquarian Gospel, verses 5 to 19 and 37 to 39 from Chapter 32.
Barata Arabo tells Jesus,
5) Time was when man was not; and he was a bit of formless substance in the moulds of time;
and then a protoplast.
6) By universal law all things tend upward to a state of perfectness. The protoplast evolved,
becoming worm, then reptile, bird and beast, and then at last it reached the form of man.
7) Now, man himself is mind, and mind is here to gain perfection by experience; and mind is
often manifest in fleshy form, and in the form best suited to its growth. So mind may manifest as
worm, or bird, or beast, or man.
8) The time will come when everything of life will be evolved unto the state of perfect man.
9) And after man is man in perfectness, he will evolve to higher forms of life.

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10)
And Jesus said, Barata Arabo, who taught you this, that mind, which is the man, may
manifest in flesh of beast, or bird, or creeping thing?
11) Barata said, From times which man remembers not our priests have told us so, and so we
know.
12) And Jesus said, Enlightened Arabo, are you a master mind and do not know that man knows
naught by being told?
13) Man may believe what others say; but thus he never knows. If man would know, he must
himself be what he knows.
14) Do you remember, Arabo, when you were ape, or bird, or worm?
15) Now, if you have no better proving of your plea than that the priests have told you so, you do
not know; you simply guess.
16) Regard not, then, what any man has said; let us forget the flesh, and go with mind into the
land of fleshless things; mind never does forget.
17) And backward through the ages master minds can trace themselves; and thus they know.
18) Time never was when man was not.
19) That which begins will have an end. If man was not, the time will come when he will not
exist.
37) The thoughts of God change not; the manifests of life on every plane unfold into perfection
of their kind; and as the thoughts of God can never die, there is no death to any being of the
seven ethers of the seven Spirits of the Triune God.
38) And so an earth is never plant; a beast, or bird, or creeping thing is never man, and man is
not, and cannot be, a beast, or bird, or creeping thing.
39) The time will come when all these seven manifests will be absorbed, and man, and beast, and
plant, and earth and protoplast will be redeemed.
Your best teacher, of course, is experience. You can learn to experience yourself by
hypnosis regressions, deep meditations, and out of body experiences. I was asked if reincarnation
meant that a person dies, and comes back as someone else. The answer is simple. They are a
different expression of the same person.
You can learn to remember your past lives in the Physical Realm and past lives in the
Spirit Realm. You will discover that you have one life, which continues forever, and in that
sense, there is no reincarnation! With the experience of this remembrance, you have eternal
existence. After rebirth into Spirit Consciousness, eternal life!
TIME NEVER WAS WHEN YOU WERE NOT.

For God and Freedom, I AM

Rev. Dr. Ray Pasold
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