Forgetfulness of the Past

It is in vain that one objects that forgetfulness is an obstacle to taking advantage of experiences from previous lives. If God has deemed it appropriate to cast a veil over the past, it is because it must be useful. In fact, such remembrance would entail serious inconveniences.  In certain cases, it could humiliate us greatly or perhaps exalt our pride, and for that very reason interfere with our free will. In any case, it would cause an unavoidable disturbance in social relationships.

A spirit is frequently reborn into the same environment in which it has already lived, and finds itself in relationships with the same individuals in order to repair the evil it did to them. If it were to recognize in them those whom it used to hate, perhaps its hatred would reawaken. In any case, it would feel humiliated in the presence of those it offended.

God has given us for our advancement precisely  what is necessary and what will be enough for us: the voice of conscience and our instinctive tendencies, taking from us what could harm us.

On being born, human beings bring with them whatever they have acquired. They are born as they have made themselves; each existence is for them a new starting point. It matters little for them to know what they were. If they are punished, it is because they committed evil; their current evil tendencies are indicative of what still remains within them to be corrected, and that is what they should concentrate their attention on, for whatever has been corrected completely  leaves no remaining trace. The good resolutions they have made are the voice of conscience that warns them as to what is good or evil and provides them the strength to resist their evil tendencies.

Furthermore, this forgetfulness occurs only during corporeal life. Upon  reentering the  spirit life, the  spirit reacquires its memories of the past; hence, forgetfulness is only a momentary interruption similar to what occurs in earthly life during sleep, but which does not prevent our remembering on the next day what we did the day before or on preceding ones.

It is not only after death that the spirit recovers the memories of its past. It can be stated that it never loses them, because experience proves that during incarnation, during the sleep of the body and while it enjoys a certain amount of liberty, the spirit is conscious of its previous acts. It knows why it is suffering and that it is suffering justly. Remembrance is blotted out only during the outward life of relationships. However, due to the absence of a precise memory, which might be painful and harm its social relations, it draws new strength in these moments of the soul’s emancipation if it knows how to take advantage of them.