The Process of Reincarnation
The concept of reincarnation has for a very long time been looked upon as a religious idea, as wishful thinking or just an impossible dream. But as we become wiser and understand more and more about energy, it is beginning to dawn on us that reincarnation is much more than religion or utopia but that it is actually a prerequisite for life on Earth. Nothing could be alive here were it not for reincarnation, because life itself is energy and as soon as the physical conditions are right, life reincarnates in physical matter.
This is how it works:
In order to understand how reincarnation takes place we must first if all realize that we are NOT identical to our physical body. The body is not who we are, but our consciousness with our I at its center is. Our consciousness sits like an energy field (our aura) around the body, and this field contains all the information about who we are. And it is also identical to our lifeforce. When the consciousness field leaves the body, we say that we die, but that is a huge misunderstanding. Only the body stops working, but we are still exactly the same and very much alive without the body. Actually, we feel freer and much relieved without the cumbersome physical body.
We then spend a considerable amount of time on the spiritual plane, which is a light world of thought. It is a very pleasant experience to have a good long rest on the spiritual plane.
But after some time, we yearn to go back to the physical world in order to get on with our evolution and learning process towards becoming real, finished human beings that can only emanate universal love. For each physical life we live, we move a bit closer to this high goal.
So, how do we get our spirit / consciousness back into a physical body? This process has been explained meticulously by Martinus.
The law of attraction
The law of attraction is the most powerful natural law at work in the universe, and it simply decrees that like attracts like. The process of reincarnation into a new physical body is determined by this law. It is the wavelength of the vibration of our spirit that decides where we go, because like wavelengths attract like wavelengths.
In its spiritual body, our I with its consciousness emanates a specific wavelength, defined by the person it has become through its journey of many lives, and also by the type of thoughts it thinks and how far it has evolved towards becoming an all-loving being. It is our individual wavelength with its specific vibration that decides to which love-making couple we are attracted.
The Intercourse or act of copulation
We all know that the act that produces a baby is intercourse. We know that it is a highly desirable activity and one that a lot of us are eager to participate in. But do we also know why the act can be so incredibly satisfying, arguably the most physically satisfying activity we can undertake here on the physical plane? Not everybody knows that around the act of intercourse there is an important spiritual aura or area. When two people are attracted to each other and fall in love, they get in contact with the very spirit of God, by Martinus referred to as The Highest Fire. When we are in love, the highest fire rushes through our whole being and we feel electrified and elated. Being in love is better than anything. And it is better than anything because during that phase we are in contact with the highest fire. It is as close to the divine level as we can come here at this stage of evolution. No wonder we are all quite interested in having sex.
Sexuality constitutes the core of the divine principle of creation, and that is why it is so powerful. When we are under its spell, we are eager to feel the incredible rush of being lifted above the trivial earthly plane and up to a place where we can feel closer to the divine. The act of intercourse has been adorned with this divine aura so that we will gladly engage in sex. This is so for various reasons, the main one being that there are many spirits on the spiritual plane that are eager to reincarnate, and they can only do that on the wings of the all-pervasive power of the sexual principle. And no, having sex is not a sin. Whoever had that idea is completely ignorant about this sublime activity.
Because of the power of the sexual principle, we have a large number of couples engaged in the activity of making love on the physical plane. During the act, each of those couples emanates a specific joint wavelength and vibration.
The Meaning of Orgasm
Under normal conditions physical beings cannot reach a wavelength high and fine enough to reach a spirit seeking reincarnation from the spiritual level. But during intercourse and especially during orgasm, the physical beings reach a very fine and high vibration. This high and fine vibration is built up gradually during the intercourse, and it culminates in the orgasm. During orgasm the beings emit a vibration that is high and strong enough to reach a discarnate spirit on the spiritual level. This spiritual being will then be attracted to a specific lovemaking couple, who will then become its new parents. The wavelengths of the spiritual being seeking reincarnation and the lovemaking couple have to have enough similarities in order to be able to attract each other. For that reason, the spirit will be attracted to parents of its own species that match its own mental and evolutionary level to a large degree. The law of attraction sees to it that the spirit and the parents fit on a series of parameters, and it is the ´job´ of the orgasm to bring the vibration of the physical couple up to a level high enough to reach a discarnate being seeking reincarnation on the spiritual plane.
This is the ideal scenario. It is a well-known fact that fertilization can also take place in cases of rape or artificial insemination. But those are exceptions that you can read about in the book: Reincarnation in a Nutshell.
Do we choose our parents?
So, do we choose our new parents? Yes and no. It is not as if we are handed a catalogue of potential parents and can choose from that. But we choose our parents on the basis of the person we have become, because like wavelengths attract like wavelengths. Our vibration and wavelength define who will become our next parents, simply because we will be attracted to a lovemaking couple whose joint wavelength is a certain match to our own. This means that we will be born to parents who resemble us in certain aspects, such as morals, tendencies, intelligence, interests, talents etc. It is, as mentioned, the law of attraction that is at work here, so the attraction to the ´right´ parents happens automatically due to the attraction identical wavelengths have on each other.
Martinus’ Symbol no. 34
We are going to look at one of Martinus´ symbols, no. 34, that illustrates what happens during conception. The three round figures with the triangles in the middle symbolise living beings, in this case a man, a woman and a discarnate being ready for reincarnation. The orange circle at the bottom, left hand corner symbolizes that of the man of the sexual act, the orange circle at the right symbolizes the woman of the act and the indigo-coloured circle at the top symbolizes the discarnate spirit seeking reincarnation. The large yellow field that goes out from each of the sexual partners symbolizes their vibration during the act of intercourse. The grey-yellow area symbolizes that contact has been made between a discarnate being and the two physical beings due to their similarity in vibration. During the culmination of the act of copulation, symbolized by the flames between the two partners, some tread-like figures go out from the lovers and reach up to the discarnate being, where they envelop that being and pull him / her in towards the fertilized egg in the womb. This can be seen on the symbol via the treads circling the female on the right of the symbol.
Once the discarnate being has ´joined the party´ or been pulled in, the creation of a new physical being begins.

A Summary Explanation of Symbol No. 34 – The Act of Copulation or God’s Spirit in the Darkness (obligatory official explanation of the Martinus Institute)
The symbol symbolizes the major principles that work together in the act of copulation. Martinus describes how the spirit of God directly pervading all living beings is the very highest principle of the experience of life. The beings must go through darkness in order to gain the ability to personally experience knowledge, beauty, love and bliss. But no being is left alone during this experience of darkness. Through built-in special organs in the organism it has the possibility to experience tangibly in the middle of darkness a ray of light from God’s eternal ocean of light or abundance of love. This divine ray from God’s eternal ocean of light is the beings’ highest leading and guiding force in their primitive state and their experience of darkness. Here they experience in glimpses life’s very highest feeling of pleasure in the form of the “highest fire” in the act of copulation. The act of copulation is a stimulus that promotes zest for life at the same time as it provides the organic opportunity for the beings to be born anew in physical matter.
The main details of the symbol:
- The round figure at the bottom left symbolises a male being, and the figure at the bottom right symbolises a female being.
- The large yellow rays that emanate from these beings symbolise that they are engaged in the act of copulation or intercourse.
- The round figure at the top symbolises a discarnate being that is living in the kingdom of bliss. The yellowish grey section around the being of bliss symbolises an atmosphere that is a mixture of the aura of the being of bliss and the copulatory aura of the physical beings. This atmosphere brings about the connection or contact of the being of bliss with the creation of the embryo in the womb.
- The cruciform figure, which is partly made up of rays and is situated between the two copulatory beings, symbolises the climax of the act of copulation.
- Originating in the rays emanating from this figure there is an indigo-coloured thread-like figure that goes up around the being of bliss at the top. It connects this being with the female being and animates the embryonic material in the womb. And thus, begins the creation of a new physical organism.
Fertilization
When the egg has been fertilized with the sperm cell from the man, the process of embryogenesis begins. But it only begins when a discarnate being has added its spirit / consciousness/ lifeforce to the process. Without this addition, no embryogenesis. The spirit of a discarnate being has to join the fertilized egg in the womb, but in order for the spirit to ´land´ with the right parents, there must be a considerable match in wavelength. It is absolutely no chance whom we are born to. Like attracts like and this is also valid during conception.
The Talent Mass
There has to be a certain amount of identical talent mass for the discarnate spirit and the physical parents to become attracted to each other. For that reason, very warlike spirits will reincarnate with warlike parents and peaceful spirits will reincarnate with peaceful parents. There must be a certain common mass of talents in order for attraction to take place. However, the match will never be 100%. There will always be character traits and talents in a child that none of the parents have. This is mainly due to the fact that each individual has so many talents that a total match is close to impossible.
There will be talents in a child that none of the parents have because we do not, as is now the general way of seeing things, inherit our talents from our parents. We cannot, through inheritance, receive talents that we ourselves have not developed or indeed worked hard to get. When we have a talent, it is because we have practiced and worked hard to get that talent during our former lives on a physical planet. We do not get anything for free via the genes of our parents.
The Third Party of Conception
In order for a discarnate being to incarnate into a new physical body it needs a small amount of physical matter to get the process started. This small amount of physical matter is found in the sperm and egg cells. As soon as the sperm cell enters the egg, the discarnate being can ‘ join the party´ and when it does, it takes over the whole process of embryogenesis. The two physical cells cannot do it on their own. They do not have the necessary information or know-how. All the knowledge of how to create a physical body lies embedded in the spirit / consciousness of the incoming soul. The incoming soul has been to the physical plane many times before, and it has a lot of practice in how to create a physical body. It has its consciousness full of talents for bodily creation. These talents are embedded in the energy field of our consciousness as an automatic function, just like the many automatic functions we have such as heartbeat, digestion, breathing, our ability to walk etc.
The incoming soul now puts these talents to work, and it will create a new physical body entirely in its own favour, which means just as it fits its own purpose. This means that it will pick and choose in the genetic material put at its disposal by the parents. It will activate the genes it likes and deactivate the ones that it does not like. Like a director it will orchestrate cell division, the creation of organs and the whole process of embryogenesis. It will, as just mentioned, do it in its own favour, and this means it will create a body the way it wants it, depending on its pool of talents and taking its point of departure from where it let off the last time it died. Each time we reincarnate we start our physical life at the level of development we had reached the last time we died. We simply continue our physical journey and none of the things we learned in our previous lives are lost. The incoming soul is fully aware of this, and it will create a body that fits the level of evolution it has reached.
The complicated process of embryogenesis makes it clear that without the information embedded in the consciousness of the incoming soul, no reincarnation can take place. The egg and sperm cell do not have the necessary information to create a new physical body. The whole process is a divine work of art, arranged in the most genius way so that we can continue our journey of evolution via reincarnation.
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Else Byskov is an authority on the groundbreaking work of Martinus (1890-1981), the Danish philosopher, visionary and mystic.