Understanding Reincarnation Part One: The Notion of Destiny
Philosophy Podium: Understanding Reincarnation Part One: The Notion of Destiny
Notice: What we will be talking about in these lines belongs to a domain of initiation. I would like to ask the reader to pay close attention. The definitions here are not made taking in consideration the emotional aspects of the individual. It is very important that we put our beliefs and passions on the side.
It is difficult and almost impossible to talk about the individual destiny without talking about other individuals who, in one way or another, have contributed to his existence and birth.
Despite the majesty and the powers that we attribute to the God we have chosen, we must have the honesty to recognize this: our creator God, the great God, the all-powerful God… this “God with no equal” could not create a human being without the contribution of other humans!!! In other words, the human that has preceded a human, the human ancestor of the human, has revealed himself as the enforced passage if our great Gods want to create life. This simple observation reveals the power of the Ancestral Spirit. To create a human being, our God found himself forced to negotiate with a human being.
According to the teachings of the school of M’TAM, besides the Gods of the first trinity, there are no other Gods that were born a God; the law of Khepra (becoming) is the path used by everything that exists. The Gods are not Gods; they became Gods. They all started as mortals: weak and corruptible; they have advanced on the path of becoming, helped by the 77 Commandments. They have purified themselves and increased their power. They have built their world and their values which became, for us, the example and the perfect model that we want to reproduce. We find that the reproduction of the perfect model then became the reason for our existence.
Let’s have the courage to recognize this: to say that the goal of life is anything other than to defeat death through our capability to transcend the barriers that exist between what is physical and what is not… to say that the goal of our existence is to flatter the Gods with our glorification… is to not know the human being; it is to advance through our emotions instead of our capability to reason.
When the human beings arrived in the world, they were quickly commanded by the committee of Gods. The Gods asked one question: “You humans, tell us your intentions.” This question is shocking to our nature. Contrary to what we want to believe, the human brain does not invent. We cannot think of anything that does not exist… but we are masters in the art of copying and imitating. The model of the Gods then became, for us, the perfect model to reproduce. We told them that we want to be like them and reproduce the world they have built.
We recognize the fragility of life in us. We recognize how easily we are corruptible. Life is like a writing in the sand; it can be erased and rewritten. Death then gives us a chance to restart our experience until when we will be completely free of corruption, until when we will be capable of permanently applying the 77 commandments to every aspect of our life.
The Ancestral Spirit plays a very important role in every cycle of reincarnation. Contrary to what fatalistic doctrines and the modern religions are preaching, the individual destiny inside every cycle of reincarnation is not written like on the rock. The individual does not suffer the destiny like a bad curse against which they cannot do very much.
According to the teachings of M’TAM, every individual has two categories of destinies: the prenatal destiny (Yen Miali) and the conditional (Yen Cabili). The Yen Miali is called a prenatal destiny because it is decided by the seventh generation of the grandmothers on the father’s side before our birth. In other words, our pre-natal destiny is decided by the mother of the father of the father of the father of the father of the father of the father of the father. This ancestor will place on our lifeline what she considers to be the best during her preceding reincarnation… but the becoming of existence continues, affecting also the social values….
The Yen Cabili is called a conditional destiny because it is the channel through which the individual negotiates a new destiny. The individual can then change their destiny through the Yen Cabili by inciting his ancestors to block the happening of situations that he hates and allow the arriving of situations he wishes for.
The relationship we entertain with our ancestors obeys a dialectical principle; whenever a person from our family dies, they are nothing other than a dead relative. The duty we have towards our dead relatives is to first elevate them to the rank of an ancestor. As dead relatives, they can do nothing for us, and as long as they will be suffering from our negligence and ignorance, they will even negatively affect our destiny. Generally, one does not need a lot more than a sepulchral meal to elevate a dead relative to a rank of an ancestor with whom we can continuously negotiate every aspect of our destiny.
The dialectic aspect of the situation resides in the fact that our ancestors will take care of us in our life on Earth if we take care of them in the world of the dead.
It is very important for the individual to understand the notion of Yen Miali and Yen Cabili. These notions come to add another dimension to the way we perceive our place in space and time. We must understand that if our favorite God could not create us without passing through the channel of the ancestral spirit, it is because there is no communication line towards a human being and a God that does not go through the ancestor of the human. Even the simple prayers we address to our God cannot arrive at their destination if they did not carry the stamp of the ancestor.
To deny or ignore the power of the ancestral spirit is to choose one's own destruction... is to refuse to exist.
