A spirit reborn in a body on earth
- This page is part of an ERW course, section: Divine Principle - The spiritual world.
- By John Eagles, September 24, 2009.
All human beings who did not fulfill their life course on earth must come back in a course of resurrection. This type of resurrection can take many forms, from a spirit helping a person on earth to fulfill his or her mission to actually coming in the body of a person.
There has also been made much misuse of this possibility for spirits to descend in a body. Altogether, for a spirit to come into a body is something very demanding for both the spirit and the person to whom the body belongs. This process often goes wrong and I want to elaborate on some principles so we can understand more deeply why such an undertaking sometimes ends in failure.
First, let me list a few possible forms of how spirits can descend in a body. The most widely occurring is when a spirit influences a person on earth and gives inspiration or revelations. In that case, it is only the mind of the spirit or angel that comes into the mind of the person on earth, and this can happen in various degrees.
A second possibility is that a spirit comes in the body of a medium who is in trance. In that case the descent of the spirit is temporary and takes usually place under controlled conditions. Most of the time, there will be a group of spirits supporting and protecting such an event. The medium prepares him- or herself for this occurrence by making conditions of fasting, prayer, dancing, or by taking certain drugs. This kind of descent of spirits is rather widely known in many native cultures on earth.
A third kind of resurrection of a spirit in a body is when the spirit person entirely and more permanently occupies the body of a physical person. Also here can be various degrees of how this is done. For example, sometimes the original spirit of the person is not with the body anymore but is taken to a protected place in the spiritual world. Sometimes the spirit is still with the body but consciously takes a step backwards to allow the spirit to come in. And in other cases the spirit of the body is there with the body but is unconscious for longer time.
I am only listing here the most common and generalized types of a spirit's descent into a body. There are many more variations.
It is also possible for all of these types of spiritual descent to be controlled by evil spirits. The worst case of this we know as 'possession.' In that case an evil spirit possesses the body of a person and expresses through the body, often in ugly and disgusting ways.
Now what are some of the conditions that must be made for a successful resurrection of a heavenly spirit in a body? There is a responsibility here for all those who are involved. If any of these parties makes mistakes, trouble can come. The spirit him- or herself needs to be very much centered on God, the more so because coming in a body also means to have to deal with the restoration situations that the body is normally going through. For example, if the person of the body would have a problem with certain types of sinful behavior, the spirit must overcome this in real situations of restoration.
The person who is the original owner of the body also has a role to play. He or she can help in the process, learn from the spirit if the spirit is more heavenly, or he or she could also make trouble to the spirit who came in.
Also very important is that a circle of good friends, in archangels' position, both in spirit world and on earth, are supporting the process and protecting and praying for the spirit person who came into the body. Especially when the event of the spirit's descent is meaningful for God's Providence of Restoration, there can come many spiritual attacks that disturb the undertaking.
What is a spirit experiencing who comes into a body of a person on earth? There takes place an exchange of feelings and thoughts back and forth between the body and the new spirit. The spirit must be very strong and centered on doing God's will so he or she will not come under the feelings of the body. In case that this should happen nevertheless, the spirit may lose his or her awareness of the own identity and begin to feel like he or she would be the person of the body. The more problems come to the spirit in the body and the more difficult the situations are, the bigger that this kind of confusion of identity will be. Then the spirit person might loose faith in him- or herself and will not be able to come through well anymore. People around will begin to doubt if he or she is really a new spirit in the body and so the whole process could be dragged down.
In some cases such a spirit person may be so influenced by the body and by people around that he or she entirely loses faith and begins to act in ways that he or she would normally not do.
Although full descent of a spirit in a body is not well known in the world, it is something that has been practiced in various degrees in many cultures of the world. Usually such proceedings are kept secret. Not each person's body is fit for a spirit to come in. And even if a person has a foundation so God could work to bring in a heavenly spirit with an important mission, then much work is usually done by angels to prepare the body.
