Many Lifetimes

"Behold it is written in this roll. Read ye, who shall find
in the days unborn, if your gods have given you the skill.

Read O' children, of the future and learn the secrets of the
past, which to you is so far away and yet truth is so near.

Men do not live once only to depart hence forever, they
may live many times in many places, though not only in
this world.

That between each life is a Veil of Darkness. The doors
will open at last and show us all the chambers which
through which our feet have wandered from the beginning.

Our religion teaches us that we live on eternally...now
eternity having no end, can have no beginning: it is a
circle. Therefore, if one were true, namely that we live on
forever, it would seem that the other be true also...namely
that we have always lived.

To men's eyes, God has many faces.

Our Kas, which are our spiritual selves, show themselves
to us in various ways. Drawing from the infinite veil of
wisdom, hidden in the being of every man, they give us
who are instructed glimpses of truth and the power to
work miracles. Among the Egyptians the scarabeus beetle
is no god, but a symbol of the Creator, because it rolls a
ball of mud between its feet, and gets therein its eggs to
hatch; just as the Creator rolls the world around, which
seems to be causing it to produce Life.

All gods send their gift of love upon this earth, without
which it would cease to be. My faith teaches me more
clearly, perhaps than yours, that life does not end with
death, and therefore that love being life's soul, must
endure for all eternity. The strength of the invisible time
will bind souls together long after the world is dead. In
the end however, all the various pasts will reveal
themselves."

Anana, Chief Scribe and companion to Pharaoh Jentle Leti
II; about 1320 B.C.