PURGATORY and REINCARNATION

Teachings of Christian faith according to Catholicism starkly point to the existence of a

 middle state of being between Heaven and Hell. This middle ground is termed “Purgatory” for it is here that souls are placed, or shall we say “recycled”, in order to achieve a state of spiritual purification through the purging of sins from a past life. This issue naturally lends itself to the question of where might “purgatory” exist in the material World, or if and how much time does it take to purge oneself of past accumulated sin and ascend to Heaven or descend in to Hell. Heaven and Hell are taught by the Catholic church to not have a physical location, and instead to be perhaps ethereal as a state of being attained by the individual after an existence or sentence in Purgatory. It would appear from this scheme of things that Purgatory exists, potentially, as just the ever present Earth. It is thus upon this Earth that human beings play out their sentences in an ever present Purgatory, and from which one sees glimpses of the ethereal Heaven and Hell out of which are formed the possible destinies of each human being. As to the duration of a sentence in Purgatory, one might suppose that it may take, and probably does take, more than one lifecycle of birth, life, death and rebirth to reach a state of spiritual purification necessary to attain an existence in Heaven, or oppositely it may take more than one lifecycle to achieve a final destination in Hell. Under this scheme human beings exist on Earth on a day-to-day basis, within this material Purgatory, to meet challenges to their moral state of well being and to learn through experiences, for the betterment or destruction of their spirits. It can be seen from this state of affairs that life is perhaps “recycled” within Purgatory and that the spiritual essence of a human being is thus typically reincarnated through a transmigration of the soul to a new human being in rebirth. Finally, it is to be remembered, from principles of relativity, that there is no past or future time and that there is only the ever present on the material Earth. The existence of the ever present thus lends itself to this particular interpretation of Purgatory, or reality, in terms of principles of conservation of life and the corresponding conservation of spiritual entities.