On Reincarnation

"Abraham lived once. Isaac lived once. Jacob lived once. You shall live once. I, who am God, took on flesh once and will not take it on a second time, for God, too, respects order. And the order of human life is this: For a spirit to be fused to flesh to make man like God, who is not flesh, but spirit, not animal, but supernatural. For the flesh, when it declines, in its evening, to fall like a slough and covering into the nothingness from which it was taken and the spirit to return to its ...