Immortality

I believe that we are not going to attain immortality when we die, but that we are now and have always been immortal! My contention is not that dead men live again, but that a living man never dies. Jesus revealed himself to his followers after his resurrection, to show them that death is but a passing to a higher sphere of life and action. To know that we maintain an identity independent of the physical body is proof enough of immortality.

Every man and woman is an incarnation of God. The soul can no more be lost than God could be lost. We should not believe that just because we have subscribed to some creed, we have thereby purchased a seat in heaven, nor can we believe in any vindictive or malicious power in the universe, which damns us because we have erred through human ignorance. Salvation comes to us through love, an awakening and a rebirth, not through fear and dogma. We exist only in the Life and Mind of God, therefore, it is all about God, not us. Everything else is a manifestation of man and is not true.

I believe in the continuation of the personal life beyond the grave, in the continuity of the individual stream of consciousness with a full recollection of itself. When physical death comes I believe we will remain conscious of who we are and will know others from this life who have passed before. If personality does not persist beyond the grave, then death would be an event to be longed for because this life would have no real meaning, value or worth.

What about reincarnation? I do not believe in the return of the soul to another life on this earthly plane. The spiral of life is upward. Evolution carries us forward, not backward. Eternal and progressive expansion is universal spiritual law and there are no breaks in its continuity. I cannot believe that nature is limited to one sphere of action or plane and I believe that eternal progress never ends. Every person is an unfolding soul, an eternal destiny