Reincarnation

for some of us reincarnation is real and we just accepted it as a child

for others, it may be harder to accept it

i love the bible and all of The Christ's teachings, and I am not religious, i am a spiritual seeker

Jesus was showing us all a pattern to live by, which can be extremely difficult at times

Jesus had past lives also
He was Amilius, Adam, Melchizedek, Enoch, and many others before He reincarnated as Jesus

as Melchizedek, He finally United with His Godhead and He knew at that time, He would need to come back down and teach us all to do it as well

He reincarnated again, as many others before He became Jesus

here is an excerpt from Cayce reading 262-36
THE CROSS AND THE CROWN Lesson X - A Search for God, Book I pp. 107 - 108

Comments by Gladys Davis Turner - 5/9/60 on tape for Study Groups:

(Q) Why did He come into the world as a man that He might bear a cross? (A) For me, the answer to why He came is found in the Edgar Cayce readings' explanation of the incarnations of the soul who became Jesus.

First, as Amilius, He led - or projected - souls into the earth as thought forms.

Then He came as Adam, the first physical man, who "fell" in the flesh and thus it became necessary for him to eventually come as the last Adam to show us the way. Thirdly He came as Enoch, who walked with God and was not because God took him.

Then He came as Melchizedek, the prince of Salem, without father, without mother, without days; he was not born and he did not die. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek. Many parallels can be found here with the life of Jesus. According to the readings Melchizedek, as I understand it, had attained the state of mastership such as we find in the so-called Eastern masters. In order to save the souls who had become involved in the earth because of his example, he then realized he would have to start all over in the earth and really go through all the trials and tribulations just as every other soul. [As Melchizedek he wrote the Book of Job. See 5719-14, Par. 9-A; 262-55, Par. 14-A; and 3744-4, Par. 37-A.]

He came then as Joseph. We see many parallels here with Jesus.

Then He came as Joshua, the medium through which Moses obtained the laws on the mount.

Next He came as Jeshua, the scribe, who compiled and rewrote the Biblical record as we have it to that date.

Then He came into the earth as Zend [San - Zan?], father of the first Zoroaster, who wrote - the readings say - the Zend Avesta, sacred writings of the Persians.

Finally He came as Jesus, the last Adam, in whom we all may be made alive - or at one with our Creator.

Until He started over again as Joseph, he had not actually taken on the trials and tribulations of man. He chose, as Melchizedek, to come down into the depths of materiality, and He moved step by step back to the father. Having chosen to do this, it was not possible then for him to get out of the flesh without perfecting himself in the flesh.

Nothing is said in the story of the prodigal son about how long it took him to return to his father after he had decided he would return.

Gradually, life after life, here a little, there a little, the soul perfected itself in the earth and, as Jesus, took his spiritualized body back to God, becoming the Christ. According to the Edgar Cayce readings each of us must do the same.