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verified when they have claimed to be a certain person and have even gone so far as to recognise currently existing relatives as old family members. Children would not feasibly be able to make up such details about people whom they have never met and it would take a secret service agency of extensive capabilities to produce the kind of evidence that such children are able to supply. There is a genuine phenomenon of remembering occurring.

Most of the world's religions believe in reincarnation, or have believed in it in the past. From the North American Indians to the Aborigines of Australia to the ancient Celts, Greeks and Romans; the ancient Egyptians believed in reincarnation as did the Hebrews once, and remnants of such beliefs are still extant in the Kabbalah. The original Christians believed in reincarnation too as evidenced in the Gospels. Jesus, having just been transfigured before Peter, James and John, and descending from the mountain, is asked by the disciples why the scribes say that Elijah must first come to prepare the way for the Christ. At this point, John the Baptist has recently been beheaded by Herod. Jesus replies that Elijah has already come but he was not recognised and suffered at the hands of men. In hearing this, the disciples then understand that Jesus is talking about John the Baptist. (Matthew 17: verses 10 13.) At the end of the last book of the Old Testament, the Book of Malachi, the prophet promises that Elijah will return before the Christ comes. Now, if reincarnation had not been a part of the basic belief systems of the Jews, then why would Malachi promise the return of the dead prophet Elijah and why would Jesus confirm that he had come in the guise of John the Baptist?

In order to make perfect sense of the awfulness of life in the physical world and the seeming injustices that we encounter, reincarnation offers the hope that if we fail, we can try, try and try again. If we want a God of Justice and Love, perhaps reincarnation is the only acceptable form of belief which offers the possibility that God truly has such credentials. Reincarnation offers compensation and penalties for the kind of life we have lived and it is only up to us what we do here in the Earth to earn our reward either here or in the next world. We work out our own reward and punishment by what we make of ourselves. We are here to re-create our beings either for the better or for the worse and what comes to us as a result is of our own creation. I see a perfect

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