THE SEVENTH CHAPTER

"REINCARNATION AMONG THE AFRICANS"

It was stated in the book Religions in Contemporary Africa by its author Mendelssohn, translated by Ibrahim As'ad Muhammad (pp. 43-49), from which we have summarized the following: The return of the soul to embodiment (reincarnation) is common in the beliefs of a number of African religions. The Kalabari tribes, who inhabit sub-Saharan Africa, divide the world into two parts:

Material: Which occupies a space in the void.

Spiritual: Which cannot be seen by anyone except the young, in whom the corruption of the world has not yet permeated.

Every material thing has a spiritual counterpart, to the extent that all the organs and formative elements in the material have a counterpart in the spiritual. Death is nothing but the separation of the spiritual from the material; for the spiritual is the controller, just as a captain controls a ship. Man's destiny is determined by what he said and did before he arrived. Before his birth, the spiritual goes to the Female Power—which the Supreme God established alongside the Male Power—and declares to her which paths of life he chooses. Thus, the words reincarnate in the body that the Female Power created in the mother's womb.