Reincarnation and spirit control?

Verily, I say unto you, Unless a man be born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.

This heaven, this Summerland, which Christ spoke of lies far beyond this material sphere, and cannot be reached until the individual spirit has developed sufficient self-sustaining power.

We must live many lives to perfect ourselves for the spiritual spheres. Then again, In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you.

Those mansions vary in degree, they are conditions applicable to the mortal nature of man attainable according to his degree of unfoldment.

There are many who enter those mansions or degrees and live centuries satisfied with the conditions they have attained on earth.

Presently on awakening to the reality, a desire to advance develops itself, and they find to accomplish it, they must return and work out effectually experiences on this material plane.

This material sphere, being in close proximity with those conditions, add and take, according to the development of the spirit while in the material form.

There are many failures in those experiences. Immortals return with a desire to accomplish a purpose.

If the organisation of the material body is weak and diseased from too great an excess of material influences, which produce defective conditions, the body wastes and decays, the spirit returns without having accomplished much in its desired experiences and enters upon the same plane or sphere, which it has occupied before.

Perseverance of the will, which has its marked effects upon the spirit while in the form will cause them to return oft times immediately and with more successful effects.

That it is a general thing is demonstrated to our material senses by the difference in our development.

Many in their youth are far superior to others in an advanced age—there are many who are far advanced spiritually with the spiritual experiences by which their individuality is made perceptible to a close observer.

Observing these conditions, you cannot help but see, that where one perfects himself, they are more sympathetic, more charitable to their fellow men.

The individualised spirit bears no arrogance, no malice to his fellow man—all is harmony and love concentrated with a tendency to assist through sympathy wherever he can.

There is but One Great God (or Principle rather) and He created both good and evil, which is developed and undeveloped. 

Man has been created to work out the effects of both. The undeveloped, being related more to his material organisation, which is matter in an undeveloped state, he is drawn more to the material or to the undeveloped and must through many experiences develop out of that condition to the more perfect.

This is the Law of Reincarnation—you are planted, the spiritual essence is planted in the material essences, and through the exertion in encountering those experiences, you eventually perfect yourselves.

The Infinite Mind has created good and evil and reigns supremely with intellectual power over the whole. The spiritual and intellectual are above in the purer atmosphere, which surrounds this planet. The material and undeveloped are in your midst and your surroundings. 

There is but One Great Cause, which produces those effects, and the sense of man, which is spirit combined with the material must strive through exertion of his will to control the material and raise himself above it. 

The further he ascends above it, the more his comprehension reaches out into the spiritual, and through the potency of this great electric power with which he comes in contact, the stronger and more potent the will becomes.

In this wise, knowledge is obtained. Knowledge when obtained can be applied to controlling spiritual and material things. This is power so-called and is only obtainable by those who have lived many lives in this material atmosphere.

Your material parents were moral and pure, striving to do their duty by their offspring as near as they understood to be right—they performed the material functions necessary for your happiness. 

Guides, being in spiritual relation with yourself, frequently convey their ideas through the monitor of their impressiveness, instructing you what course to pursue with you, so that this life might not prove a failure.

The Voice of Nature responds to your inner development. A guardian in spirit who will guide and protect the mortal from evil as near as he can, admitting only such suffering as may be essential for a good purpose—in such a spiritual guardian's love there is something more than mere material affections, something more than that fictitious love, which changes with the shift of the wind. This guardian love, this spiritual attention, is the love of a spiritual parent made so perfect through earthly ties at first.

And now since your spirit is unfolding and can comprehend the gleams of light, which spirit has imparted to you, and can be guided by the loving will of one who has striven to do his duty, may you work out in every sense the Will of Him who ordained it, Who stands Most High of All.

O my son, strive to realise that we are all workers for that Great Central Power. Spirit conveys to you through magnetic influence a feeling of love and admiration.

You are the material instrument through whom spirit can accomplish much good and and fulfil the mission assigned to you.

Conquer as a ruler with the iron wrath of a material brute and he makes very little progress owing to the reproaches of those victims he held in bondage.

When the remorse of a soul is so great, it is sure to throw itself back at once to escape the tortures of influences that reproach it. Those tortures are called by the Catholics, purgatory. The prayers offered up in good faith in the performance of high mass, frequently harmonise the influences and relieve the spirit for the time being.

Through the assistance of your spirit guides, you enter upon a new life. Having good traits of character, your spirit has attained knowledge, which incites you to strive hard to accomplish good works.

He who instigates a murder, who conceives it in his mind is more a murderer than he who strikes the dagger to the heart.

You are seeking the object of your love, your soul's affinity, which can only be obtained through progression.

A pure nature is spiritual, an impure nature is material. Abide by that which is good and pure. You cannot do otherwise. You are conscientious, true and sincere.

Thank the All Infinite Power for giving you strength to unfold your nature and lead you up higher where spiritual purity interblends with your thoughts. Abide with the pure, with the good in heart, for they see and enjoy the happiness of the summer spheres.

May his protecting care and love ever interblend with your soul, as it does with us. Amen

Sixteenth Communication of Ben Haman—Woman, and her Relations to Humanity—Gleams of Celestial Light on the Genesis and Development of the Body, Soul, and Spirit, and Consequent Moralisation of the Human Family—offered especially to Woman for Study and Contemplation, not to the Phenomena Hunter but to the Spiritual Student and Deep Thinker—The True Religion—Magnetism, Materialisation, Reincarnation