Taking Principles with Us

2003-7-6 11:18:00

Susan,
Thanks for reminding us of the decision of the complaint committee. I thought you made a decision, but I couldn't find the post.

Thanks also to Travis and Blayne for answering questions from Tom (FREETHESOULS
a...). Perhaps this is a good time to clarify a point.

If someone asks a question that interests you or that you think you can shed some light on, feel completely free to step forward and answer. As Travis says, I am very busy and this is helpful. I still have so much new material to cover that I will be lucky to get it all down in this lifetime, so your participation does not diminish anything I am trying to accomplish.

Tom also did the right thing in repeating his question that was important to him. Sometimes I plan on answering a question but it just gets lost in file X.

Let me add a little to the answers given:

Tom asks:
If we died and came back in reincarnation we would not remember any of JJ's teaching? How will we relearn the teachings? How will we evolve?

JJ:
This is why I put emphasis on principles. If one merely memorizes facts and data this will generally be lost when one is reborn. But even here they are not completely lost, but foment below the surface.

But if one learns a principle and understands it then he learns in the language of the soul. Because the soul never sleeps or dies the principle is not lost but can be retrieved at will in any lifetime after it is registered by the seeker.

If one spends his life following a doctrine and studies all his life, but does not reflect on the underlying principles he will gain little except the discipline involved in the study.

But if one reflects and sees the principles behind that which is given then he will have a great advantage in the life to come.

As far as the time between lifetimes goes. In the past many have taught that the average is about 1500 years, but this is a figure passed down from a time that the population is much more sparse than it is today. Today it is much closer to 100 year figure mentioned by Blayne - though a little longer than that. The average represents a wide rage, however. Some come right back into incarnation but even today many new babes are coming in for the first time in thousands of years.

I was walking through the forest alone, and a tree fell right in front of me and I didn't hear it. --Steven Wright