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plane different kinds of life. Effects of good or bad acts committed on the physical plane must manifest. on the physical plane. The force created by the ego on the physical plane in this life must in some way or other manifest itself after death on the physical plane-be in future life. And if the soul has to pass through other future lives, is it unreasonable to say that it has passed through past lives also? If the soul was created at a time it must also die at death. Whatever begins in time inust end in time, If the soul iş immortal, it must be immortal at both. its ends. It cannot be immortal at one end without being immortal at the other. The idea of special creation at birth implies the correlative of annihilation at death. It does not stand to reason that from an infinite history the soul enters this world for its first and only physical existence and then shoots off into an endless spiritual existence. As Einerson Says:-We wake and find ourselves on & stair. There are other stairs below us which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one which go upward and out of sight.
Re-incarnation is the only doctrine wbich gives a complete solution of the much-disputed question of original sin. There cannot be greater injustice in the world than the fact that I am suffering for the transgression of iny ancestor. Adonis responsibility for our sin is only & make shift of the theo
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