Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00016)

In a message dated 2/2/99 6:53:09 PM, Dorothy wrote:

<<When a physical  body is cloned - thats just what you get - a physical body
There is no power in cloning to instill a spiritual soul  in the duplicate
body. You have a soulless, mindless body. In short - a Zombie...>>

I strongly doubt this.  If the developed clones were viable organisms, meaning
they could breathe on their own etc., I strongly suspect karma would find
souls that could inhabit them, at least some of them.  We are taught in the
SECRET DOCTRINE (and I know it's a controversial teaching) that several
million years ago, man mated with animals and produced the various breeds of
apes.  One would think that these would have been sterile and soulless
offspring, but in fact we are taught that some souls entered these ape bodies,
and became spiritually and intellectually delayed.

Likewise, cloning will very likely produced viable, "inhabited" human bodies.
I think the process is about as horrendous as mating with animals, but I think
it's going to happen, and souls will enter those bodies, and it will be a
karmic mess.  Imagine science cloning duplicates of anyone who could pay for
it, keeping the clones in a coma, and harvesting their organs whenever those
of the "investor" began to fail.  Not only would the "investors" be less
inclined to live a healthy life, the clones would be mercilessly butchered
without ever having really live.  This is a kind of "adult abortion" and
certainly a horrendous use of our biological knowledge.  This kind of
technology and abuse is what HPB says brought down the vast civilizations of
Atlantis.

Rich

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