Nothing incarnates and much less the soul. The soul is not something independent of the body. The soul is the person him or herself. According to the Genesis allegory of Creation, when the Lord formed man from the dust of the earth, He breathed within his nostrils and man became a living soul.
To become is to be and not to have. We don't have a soul; we are souls. Then at death, the body goes back to the dust and the breath of life returns to God Who gave it. This "returns to God" is only an embellishment for the breath of life that's gone with death. (Eccles. 12:7)
Being as how I remember my own past for ~seven lifetimes, and know this to be
but a recent sequence out of many hundred - indeed, many thousands - your words are falling on deaf ears, Shibbolet. Not deaf because they cannot hear, or do not care to hear what you are saying, but deaf because your words - mean nothing.
Teilhard made the point:
WE ARE SOULS ... but if you knew that, you'd know that
the Soul `puts on' a body from time to time, then takes it off as easily as you and I take off a coat when it is warm. The contact of the threefold SOUL with the outer world produces a similar,
threefold PERSONALITY, as even this word
persona means - tellingly - MASK. The ancient Greeks were well aware, some of them, of such a doctrine. Pythagoras taught it, in his Mystery School at Krotona, Plato taught it at the Academy, and most certainly Socrates was a believer in the theory of Transmigration.
Jesus taught the Apostles, and this
I know to be a fact. Do not counter what you yourself cannot defend. When asked about
the blind man, Jesus proves, both by what he says
and what he does not, that Rebirth was as obvious to his students as the existence of a definite `afterlife experience' [the Bardo, Purgatory, astral plane, etc.]. Again, when the Disciples ask about his possible former existence as
Elijah, or Elias, He corrects them by saying,
No, he was not Elijah, for Elijah had come and gone, and yet was not known as such. It is stated clearly that John the Baptist
was Elias, returned. Even Christians often cannot accept what is plainly stated in the New Testament.
But you, my friend, who do not even accept the doctrines regarding the afterlife, PLAINLY given in EVERY major Faith -
Judaism included - have no business seeking to
correct the `errors' of Christians, or any other. You have not the authority or the Wisdom which comes from experience, and while I do most certainly share a measure of the
smug, self-righteousness with you - which often comes with being better READ than
well-PRACTICED - I do NOT happen to share your special brand of ignorance.
Most likely your next post is the last I will read. I can certainly say, it's not been at all a pleasure to read your contributions on these forums. Personally, I think you are in the wrong place, saying the wrong thing, entirely. But then, if I were an over-educated, faithless materialist, I might well say all of the same things, in all of the same VAIN effort to - what? To persuade others that they all need to convert to Jewish orthodoxy? Or to yield up their present KNOWLEDGE and Wisdom for your special brand of bleak, uninformed ignorance?
