Recurrent traits, recurring karma
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, c.1595, II:ii
Names
Here's a case of one name recurring over many lives and sounding just as sweet — or just as sad: Thomas 'TS' Eliot, Thomas More and Thomas Becket. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935) is a dramatisation of his own martyrdom as Thomas Becket (1170), a prior incarnation of himself. While spelling varies over time and between cultures, the resonance or sound produced appears to be what counts. Similarly, Pharaoh Thothmes III returned as US President Thomas Jefferson. Same name, different spelling. Likewise, the name Osiris is correctly pronounced Asur, as used in Atlantis and Egypt, and relates to the Sanskrit sun god, Surya. Ditto that for Arthur, Ar-Thur and Thor. Ar-Thur derives from the Atlantean royal line of Arbal. The earliest Egyptians remembered him as Anhur, a warrior god whom they called 'Saviour'. The Scandinavians celebrated him as their god of thunder, namely Thor. Thursday is thus named after him: Ar-Thur's Day, and so on. These names all share the same resonance and thus have the same effect on us. Moreover, they evoke the same response in others.
Disabilities
Stephen Hawking was a reincarnation of the Italian Jesuit, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, who persecuted Galileo and Giordano Bruno for their scientific doctrines. As a result, Hawking’s karma cast him into the service of the science he once persecuted, since the law of karma ever decrees that we must inevitably become that which we condemn. The following was disclosed prior to his passing in 2018: “Stephen Hawking’s soul has too long rejected everything spiritual, for even as a priest of the Church his concern was not with spiritual truth but with temporal power, and thus it is his material-mindedness that has shackled him in such a disabled body. Unfortunately, so far he has not shown any change of attitude in his incarnate mind; but on a soul level he will learn of the limitations of matter and of the transcendental potential of the mind.” (Onesipheru, 1998)
Injuries
According to biblical tradition, King Ahab imprisoned the prophet Micaiah for predicting his demise (1 Kings 22). As foretold, Ahab was fatally wounded by a stray arrow and died. Similarly, King Henri disregarded a prophecy of the seer Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus), then the reincarnate Micaiah, and was mortally wounded in a joust when a combatant's lance splintered and pierced his golden helmet, penetrating his head through an eye. A splinter wounded him in the throat. Henry suffered in cruel agony for several days before he died — precisely as predicted. ‘The young lion will overcome the older one, on a field of battle in single combat: He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage, one of two wounds, then he dies a cruel death’ — Nostradamus, Century 1:35
