Old Souls...

Plato believed the souls had a beginning, but will not have an end. He claimed souls were created in a certain number and, in a classical way, come to the world to evolve and release themselves from which is not pure. The day the last soul would get perfect would be the day of the end of corporeal life.

I, somehow, share the basis of this theory. The physical world as a school for souls, not to get purified, but to learn to be happy, or, most likely, to recognize happiness; ultimate happiness.

I also believe to discover the true spiritual happiness people must have a minimum of material comfort; how can someone discover any happiness in life (a lower representation of the ideal happiness, IMO) when they have their children dieing with hunger? When they are suffering from having lost a leg in war? - I’m trying to be neither idealistic nor materialistic, but that is the truth. When people are suffering they cannot contemplate the wonder of the world. Of course there are some exception... there are those who can discover the real purpose of living even in the hardest moments. But those peoples have no common souls... their higher than the rest. Many times they become what we call "saints", "guardians"... .

In the most "advanced" (if we could call it to ourselves, which I doubt we can) civilizations there is a phenomenon taking place: with the improvement of the quality of life, normally, we should expect families to get larger because there is more wealth to sustain the family community. However, we can see the opposite is occurring. Every year there is a decrease in the number of births.

May we be going straight to the point Plato has referred? Are the souls progressively reaching the goal for which they have born in earth?

If that is so, I just can see one reason to exist the barrier between rich and poor people. Rich people, those who live in rich countries, who have a better material life and can more easily be satisfied, and therefore, can easily reach happiness, must help the opposite part... those who are poor, giving them what they need materially so they can no longer extreme needs who avoid them from discover the positive face of life.

This approach is probably too much moralistic for some people, but that is not what I intent to be. I just want to present the duality as an element for evolution. The balance is required or progress will stop.

I know there are other factors, like work, which are directly responsible for the decrease of births. But, I also think the main reason why this happens is because people don't feel the natural need to bring more souls to world (egoism... maybe! but where is it based on? - even the most egocentric societies have some kind of moral code).

Well... just a thought I have for some time.

I really think there are souls older than others... not because they have been created first, but because they have come to the world more times than others.