THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

3. This 'evolutionary progress' depends on four major concepts, handed down, it is taught,
mainly from Babylonian and Hindu religion: reincarnation, karma, human eugenics, and
balance with the Earth.
3a. Reincarnation (each soul returning many times into different bodies). This concept is so
popular that not much needs to be explained here. [However, note that the "evidence" for
reincarnation is problematic: it is always subjective (based on someone's narrative which
cannot be verified or falsified); and it is always self-serving. Everyone's "past-life memory"
is fascinating, rather than mundane as we might expect billions of lives to be. And a past life
invariably justifies what one already wants to do in this life.] We are encouraged to embrace
our past lives, to build upon them rather than regret them - no matter how unsavory we
"were". The one exception is the Jews. Only Jews are expected to reject their present identity
as Jews, which is the unfortunate result of a shameful past incarnation as... what else?... Jews
again. (See _Externalisation_ II, p.78).]
Classic reincarnation holds that there is a limited number of souls being recycled over eons
through thousands of lives. Obviously there is a problem with this theory, as there are far too
many people on earth today to tally with the smaller number of reincarnated souls from the
past. To resolve this, one theory holds that souls have had to "split" in order for each person
on earth to carry a "spark" of something human. Jewish proponents of reincarnation usually
hold this view. [The very idea of one soul being shared by many people clashes with the
central Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead at the End of Days, when each soul is
restored to its original body. Who will be resurrected with which body, and from which life?
As a doctrine which no one can find clearly spelled out in the Torah or Prophets, reincarnation
enjoys an undeserved reputation as a pillar of Judaism.] But the more popular explanation is
that there must be subhumans walking around, bodies without viable souls inhabiting them.
[Compare with Nazi propagandist Rosenberg's statement
.] As de Purucker of the
Theosophical Society explains it: "All the stronger, more advanced egos [or, reincarnating
souls]... take embodiment in the new race, whereas the bodies of the decaying race are given
over to less developed egos which enter them... [until they will] finally be the vehicles for
only the least developed egos of the human stock." (_Fountain_, "Racial Cycles and Yugas")
At the bottom of de Purucker's soul-barrel are a "few Lemurian bodies still going on and on -
so-called because they are of direct Lemurian descent - [which] offer vehicles to the very
lowest class of the human stock." (Bailey identified the Lemurian race as the Jews.) The lack
in certain circles of "openness to the light" of NA teaching is explained as one clue that these
are the ones lacking developed souls. Other "symptoms" mentioned by Theosophical Society
co-founder W.Q. Judge are genetic, physical or mental deformities, anti-social behavior and
Chinese nationality [sic]; egos may even "desert" their bodies, leaving functioning but soulless
shells. ("Why Races Die Out", _Path_, Oct. 1891) For Anthroposophist (former
Theosophist) Rudolf Steiner, the under-developed souls were found in dark-skinned bodies
(taught in all Waldorf Schools under "Racial Ethnography").
What then would be the most humane response, given our "overcrowded" planet and the
beneficial effect of physical death? The benevolent NA program is already underway.
3b. Karma [Hindu term] means that this life contains rewards or punishments for good or bad
deeds done in your previous lives, meted out by an impersonal mechanism called "the
universal law of harmony, which unerringly maintains equilibrium in the cosmos" (William
Q. Judge, "The Ocean of Theosophy"). Not only individuals, butraces and even planets are
affected by karma, as Alice Bailey discusses in _Initiation, Human and Solar_ (p.41). It is not
explained how the punishment for a certain individual's actions can be passed on to another