Q: Can the souls of people who commit suicide incarnate in the New World after having undergone a period of purification on the subtle planes?
R: “Of all the distortions of truth purveyed by traditional religions, one of the most serious is assigning people who commit suicide to ‘hell,’ while those who live their lives committing harm against others are often assigned to ‘heaven.’
There are two dimensions to this question: one relates to the realm of form, the other to the plane of consciousness. Outwardly, on the plane of form, suicide is the destruction of a life and that goes counter to the will of God—the Creator of life. However, when seen through a spiritual lens, from the unseen side of the tapestry, the act of ending a life prematurely has a different effect. It deprives the individual of the opportunity designed by his or her soul to grow from that particular lifetime of experience. When a life is ended prematurely and unnaturally, the intended lessons are not erased, they are merely postponed. They will appear again in another guise in future incarnations, with differences in the details but the lessons will remain the same.
Is there a karmic penalty in a subsequent lifetime for ending one’s life unnaturally? Our answer would be ‘no,’ as our God is not a vengeful God. Crossing the threshold into the new world depends upon the soul’s accumulation of light over innumerable lifetimes, not upon a single lifetime. All who pass through the portal to the new world will have advanced beyond needing to experience karma of a dense physical nature. The remaining learning on the Path will relate primarily to the emotional and mental bodies. In the finer atmosphere of the etheric plane, with the permeability of physical-etheric bodies, this learning will be more rapidly assimilated. If the soul’s intention is aligned with the Forces of Light, the act of suicide in one lifetime will not prevent its entry into the new cycle of Earth’s evolution.”
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