Incarnation
The embodiment of a Godhead in human or animal form. The concept of incarnation is prevalent in all religions. In Christianity Jesus Christ, supposedly God, became man.
Reincarnation in Christian Teaching
Pass from the view of the necessity, and let us ask whether this, which seems so necessary, is a doctrine which does not belong to Christendom as much as to any other people, to any other faith.
VI: REINCARNATION OR REVELATION
THEOSOPHY, Vol. 33, No. 11, September, 1945
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There is a good deal more to Giegerich's story, but our focus is on the Incarnation. Given the radical split between God and the world, what is the meaning of the Incarnation for Giegerich?
Avatar is similar to the Christian concept of incarnation but is different in two significant ways.
Incarnation -- Manifestation of the soul as a three-fold personality, under the Law of Rebirth.
Incarnation The unification of the etheric double with the dense physical body; the taking of a dense physical body; a definitely determined period (from the angle of soul) wherein experiment, experience and expression are the keynotes.
Reincarnation
Image of Reincarnation. I first noticed this striking image is in the local Crossways (Krishna Consciousness cheap food) center in Melbourne.
Reincarnation, or Re-birth; the once universal doctrine, which taught that the Ego is born on this earth an innumerable number of times. Now-a-days it is denied by Christians, who seem to misunderstand the teachings of their own gospels.
Reincarnation
Derived from the Latin, meaning, "to return to flesh," or "to become flesh again, ...
Incarnation.--The Spirit of God in all Creation.
Individuality.--The Real Idea of man, as distinguished from the outer personality.
Induce.--The act of planting seeds of thought in Creative Mind.
5. The Incarnation opened the way to the knowledge of the what that corner stone is.
6. Vain, therefore, are all traditions and teachings which would persuade us that Cephas was this foundation.
Prior to incarnation, the Tree Fates, three ugly old hags, Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos, apportion a man's share of good and evil, that is, his fate.
THE FIRST INCARNATION, OR MATSYA AVATAR, OF VISHNU.
From Picart's Religious Ceremonials.
Currently, reincarnation is experiencing an increase in popularity in the West, as some Christians find the reincarnation of the soul a more attractive proposition.
The shin, therefore, symbolizes the Incarnation. A scribe asked Jesus what was the greatest of all the Commandments. Jesus replied, "Shema Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad" (Mark 12:29). The first word, shema, is spelled shin, mem, ayin.
Incarnation Incarnation, which literally means enfleshment, refers to the conception, and live birth of a sentient creature (generally human being) who is the material manifestation of an entity or force whose original nature is immaterial.
Verum quia misterium dñice incarnationis credere despiciunt: manet super eos ira dei & in suis fatuitatibus euanescunt. Existimantes sibi deum esse proximum in quem non recte credunt.
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The beginner will find what he needs, and will build on this in later incarnations; while the advanced student will also find that DK has given us a wealth of information that has never been given out by the Hierarchy before.
A soul that wanted to take incarnation in this world had to cross each planet's orbit and make an agreement with that planet's "soul" or intelligent principle (its genius).
Vishnu's first avatara or incarnation on earth was, according to the Shataoatha-Brahmana, as a fish known as Matsya (the Sanskrit word for fish).
In fact, the karma of previous incarnations plays quite a big role in this book, manipulating characters and circumstances like a puppet master pulling the strings of his puppets.
In many eastern religions, the load of guilt or innocence carried from one incarnation to the next, determining one's lot in the next life; often used by American occultists as a general term for moral responsibility, ...
Reincarnation is another essential component of Buddhism. Buddhists believe that humans are re born after dying, and adhere to the notion that most humans go through many cycles of birth, life, death and rebirth.
But with the incarnation of that spirit a consonant (sin or shin = s) is added, forming the Pentagrammaton IHSVH and making these vowels pronounceable.
Ankh: The most famous Egyptian hieroglyphic, the Ankh symbolizes life, love and reincarnation. It is often worn around the neck and is shaped like a cross with a loop on top.
 See also: World, Spirit, Death, Ritual, Occult
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