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say unto you among them that are born of women. there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom. of heaven is greater than he. And from the days. of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John, and if ye will receive it this is Elias, which was far to come." Does not Jesus mean that John was re-incarnated Elias.
It is useless to multiply · instances taken from the Bible. For every candid Christian student must acknowledge that the truth of the doctrineof Re-incarnation does not depent on a scriptural mention.
But some people may say--If this doctrine is true, how is it that we do not remember our past incarnations. I will ask such people--In what way do we exercise the faculty of memory ? Certainly, so far as we are living in a body, we exercise it through the brain. In passing from one incarnation to the other, the soul does not carry its former brain in the new body. Even during the course of one life, da
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