Capitolo 9
what they don't return to the building of the Paradisiacal King. Men don't do
knows how the souls turn as a stone from which an is thrown
slingshot. But the time is to course of hand when these mysteries will be
disclosed." (Zohar, II, 99 _b_s.)
As many gods Church Fathers the Cabalists used as them principal
matter for the doctrine of metempsychosis the justice of
God. But for the belief in metempsychosis, they maintained, the
question because God allows the bad one to often conduct a happy life while
very straight it is they put it would be incontestable. Then also the
the infliction of the pain on children would be an action of the cruelty unless it
it is imposed in punishment of sin committed by the soul in a precedent
state. Isaac Abravanel sees in the commandment of the Levirate a test
of the doctrine of metempsychosis to which he gives the following
reasons: (1) God in Your wanted mercy that another test should be
gives to the soul that having produced to the blood temperament of
the body had committed a sin of capital as murder the adultery, etc.;
(2) it is only alone that when a man dies young an opportunity should be
gives to his/her soul to perform in another body the good actions that it
it didn't have time to complete in the first body; (3) the soul of the bad one
sometimes passages in another body to receive his it deserved
punishment here under instead of in the other world where it would be
very more severe. (Commentary on Deuteronomy, XXV, 5.)
The Christianity is not exempt from this idea. Origen and the other Church
Fathers believed in him. It says Origen: "For God, justly clearing himself/herself/itself of his
creatures according to their desert, united the differences of chins
in a congruous world that he was able, as is, you decorate his/her mansion
(in that not only you/he/she should be gold vases and you/he/she should silver, but of wood
also and clay, and some to honor and some to the dishonor) with these
different vases, chins or souls. To these causes the world owes his
difference, while Divine Providence prepares each according to his