As one well acquainted with this doctrine of Rebirth, without combating it as an error or as something doubtful which his disciples ought not to believe, Jesus simply replies:
"Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
And yet it appears as though this answer must have been distorted, as so many others have been, otherwise it would mean that the only reason for this man's blindness was the caprice of the Deity.
Reincarnation in the Apocalypse.
The Apocalypse, an esoteric book par excellence, confirms the doctrine of Reincarnation, and throws considerable light on it:
"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out...."[171]
In another verse it is stated that to him who overcometh "I will give the morning star."[172] In the language of theosophy, this means: He who has overcome the animal soul, shall, by mystic Communion, be united to the divine soul, which, in the Apocalypse, is the symbol of the Christ:
"I, Jesus, am the bright and morning star."[173]
Another verse clearly characterises the nature and the cost of victory: