The Law of Reincarnation
The following excerpts are from The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn. Any emphasis is original.
[W]hy one man is born rich and healthy, and another poor and sick [is because] [w]here there is an effect there is always a cause; there is no such thing as chance.
This question can be answered through the law of reincarnation. Man goes through many [spiritual/psychological] births and deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him free.
He draws back to the earth plane through unsatisfied desire, to pay his Karmic debts, or to “fulfill his destiny.”
The man born rich and healthy has had pictures in his subconscious mind, in his past life, of health and riches; and the poor and sick man, of disease and poverty. Man manifests, on any plane, the sum total of his subconscious beliefs.
However, birth and death are man-made laws for the “wages of sin is death”; the Adamic fall in consciousness through the belief in two powers. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died—“As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be!” (p. 83-84)
