Probably the greatest difference between exoteric and esoteric (gnostic) Christianity is the question of Karma and Reincarnation. In certain sense it was an evolutionary necessity for most of the Western souls to pass through the pedagogical school of one-lifetime-only paradigm. This places a certain sense of urgency and focus on moral life. But more and more this view will be a serious hinderance for any true penetration into reality, and ironically, at some point it will begin to work
against true morality. This can already be seen in Eastern Orthodoxy (with which I'm more familiar). Since the church doesn't really have much to say against the moral life of those who pursue the depths of Christianity, they simply begin wild accusations for deviation from dogma. But the church really degenerates when it practically begins to vilify and spread actual
lies. And this already happens today. I don't know, maybe they think that if they exaggerate things to make them a little more striking, even if this includes some lies, they are protecting their followers.
And here it is up to every individual to make the right observations and judge rightly who's defending the Truth and who's simply clinging to the comfortable patterns of old.
And although in the bible nowhere is
explicitly spoken of reincarnations, these things were known of. They have even made their way in
implicit forms, like:
John 9:2 wrote:
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Such a question simply doesn't make sense if the disciples were not aware of reincarnation.