Philosophy of Rebirth-4

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The old religious myth and dogmatic mystery,

of a God who constantly creates,

immortal souls, out of His own being,

or else by His 'Life-Power' entering,

into the bodies He creates in material Nature,

and vivifying them internally with a spiritual principle,

is one of these 'other' hypotheses.

 

As a mystery of faith, this can hold,

and need not be examined,

for these mysteries of faith are intended,

to be beyond question and scrutiny;

but for reason and philosophy,

it lacks convincingness, and,

does not fit into the known order of things.

 

For it involves two paradoxes,

which need more justification,

before they can even be accorded consideration;

first, the hourly creation of beings,

who have a beginning in time,

but who have no end in time,

and are, moreover, born by the birth of the body,

but do not end by the death of the body;

secondly, their assumption of,

a ready-made mass of combined qualities,

not made by them at all through growth,

but made for them by arbitrary fiat,-

if not by law of heredity,-

yet for which and for the perfect use of which,

they are held responsible by their Creator.