Weird Theology – or – The end is near.

In the 1960’s, there was a population poster which proclaimed:

“Half the people who ever lived are alive today.”

Throughout history there have been concepts involving  resurrection and reincarnation.  In the Jewish faith there is the belief that every soul, which would ever exist, was created as part of the creation.  They were placed in a LIMBO, a storage or waiting area.  As a body became available, a soul would be sent to occupy it – only to return to limbo until all the souls had the opportunity to experience life, and make the decisions which would determine their ultimate fate.

In the Hindu, we reincarnate to finish what was started in, or correct the mistakes of, a past life.  In some cases, it is held that we reincarnate as other creatures.  Maybe that creature becomes the storage vessel for the limbo – the wait until the souls have all been used and the tine when they are judged on their actions.

The specifics of the belief systems vary, but the basics are there: We are responsible for our choices; that responsibility is within defined in terms of some basic guiding principles, or commandments, or laws, or doctrines, or whatever one wishes to call them.

In the New Testament, The Book of Revelation talks of a “Judgment Day” ... a time when 144 thousand -- twelve thousand from each of the twelve tribes –- shall be passed without challenge.  Then the time will come when Jesus will act as lawyer for those who “come in his name”, and we are told that there will be some will come, but He will not know them; therefore he will decline to represent them.  He might even condemn them.

There is one thing that is, philosophically, certain: Limbo will have exhausted its souls and they shall all be brought back, before they can be judged.  In that context, let’s look again at that old Poster saying:

“Half the people who ever lived are alive today.”

If all the souls get two bodies – the first for the first life, the second in which they get to either, enjoy and continue their prior life (a life in which they were “good”, possibly earning a place among the 144,000, of the non-Judaic equivalents); or the get to either make amends for wrongs; or, maybe, just to finish what they had started.  Once that second life has been lived, the souls will be judged -- those deemed worthy shall resurrect, a third time, into a world with no pain or strife.  They will enter a world where they get to live the “good life.”

If you believe the theological texts, their world will, eventually, succumb to the remaining edges of “Free will” and “Choices.”   We will succumb to the curse that accompanies the blessing of Divine Freedom and Experiment in consciousness.  The world will finally end.

In the Hindu, the pre-Judgment period – the time when the souls all return for the second round – is the Age of Kali … which is due to begin within our lifetimes, in the next year or so.  The Mayan had the age begin on the 21st of December, in the year we refer to as of 2012.  So think about that statement:

 “Half the people who ever lived are alive today.”

If there are two bodies, for every soul – even though we do not know the precise number of souls that were initially created – we can be sure that, when they all return, “Half the bodies that ever existed, would be in existence.”  Each with one of the Limbo souls.

So if it is approximately true … that, “Half the people who ever lived are alive today.” … than what is really being expressed is an estimate of a mathematical reality … “Half the bodies that ever existed, are now in existence.”  If it is true, as the astronomers have announced, that our astrological perspective is progressing into a new  constellation … that, as the 60’s song (from the Broadway Production, HAIR) proclaimed … that this is the dawning of “the Age of Aquarius”; … if it is true that this is the Age of Kali, the Mayan new age of change, … than it follows that we are about to enter into the period proclaimed, or predicted to be, the “final”, transitional, judgment.

What wars and horrors shall we see as part of the birthing process which will bring about the new age?