"In that it removes the question mark from the end of one's life, this book is a great comfort to the aging and those who contemplate death. Yet, it is most important to the young and those who contemplate life." Howard Jason Smith, Boston Globe Lucien Gregoire, friend-biographer of Albino Luciani, has written books on the evolution of world religions in a simple and enlightening way so that a child can easily understand them. This is one of them. In 1947, Albino Luciani defended his thesis 'The Origin of the Human Soul...' in which he defined the human soul-just what is it one is trying to save? What's more, he stumbled upon the secret of eternal life. The relatively heavy theological intellectual complexity of Luciani's thesis is presented in a series of fun and entertaining conversations with a ten year old boy. As Dante once took the reader through the levels of hell, the reincarnated Luciani takes the reader through the heavens of the Christian, the Jew, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Tao, and one more-a long lost religion holding the secret to eternal life. One no longer has to guess. One can know in this life, one will live forever. Listen as he tells you what he meant, when he told us, "Don't knock yourself out over smart monkeys and Adam and Eve. Each of us is responsible for our own evolution. We can either choose to remain as mortal men, or we can evolve as Gods." Albino Luciani, Gregorian University, doctoral dissertation, Feb '47. "If every teen were to read this book, what a wonderful world we would live in." Dr. Alexis Bishop, London Times.

The Reincarnation of Albino Luciani

By Lucien Gregoire

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Copyright © 2012 Lucien Gregoire
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ISBN: 978-1-4685-4216-5

Contents

Pinocchio.........................................................................11The Moth and the Butterfly........................................................12An Interplanetary Visitor.........................................................15The Bike..........................................................................16Masquerade of Faith...............................................................22The Little Grey Cells.............................................................28Evidence Which Should Be There....................................................38Territorial Ambitions.............................................................48The Founding Fathers..............................................................53The Holy Ghost is the Father......................................................59Plagiarizing Gods.................................................................68Justin's Dream....................................................................72The Black Mass....................................................................87A Vegetarian God..................................................................93In Search of Jesus................................................................101Sherlock Holmes...................................................................105Divine Witness....................................................................111Divine Intervention...............................................................114Silent Witness....................................................................116Ghosts, Ghosts, and, more Ghosts..................................................119All Creatures, Great and Small....................................................130Atom and Eve......................................................................143The Icicle That Would Not Fall....................................................149The Birds and the Bees............................................................154Times That Try Men's Souls........................................................166Resurrection of the Body..........................................................170The Greatest of Prophets..........................................................178A World of Specialization.........................................................183Times That Try Men's Minds........................................................188Jekyll and Hyde...................................................................200What We Are Trying To Save........................................................205The Greatest of Sins..............................................................213Eternal Destiny of the Christian..................................................219Eternal Destiny of the Atheist....................................................229The Sure Bet......................................................................234The Old Shoe Box..................................................................244Not Quite, Yet, a Man.............................................................246Invisible Monster.................................................................261I Want to Learn to Count..........................................................262The Red-faced Chaplain............................................................267First, onto my shoulder ... ... then, run down my back............................270Queen of Theology.................................................................273Little Girl in the Attic..........................................................277The Enchanting Stenographer.......................................................281Ten Little Indians ... ... And Then There Were None...............................283Open for Business.................................................................285The Great Meltdown of 1958........................................................288Reincarnated Courage..............................................................291One for the road The Story of Sam...............................................294Addendum A Heavens of World Religions............................................301Addendum B Evolution of World Religions..........................................306Addendum C Scriptural Sources....................................................309Addendum D Image Bibliography....................................................310Communism.........................................................................312Author............................................................................313

Chapter One

PINOCCHIO

Come, take his hand. Touch the sun, sniff the wine, taste the honey, peek the chartreuse, march the song; come walk with him in the forests of the hinterland.

Come, walk in the woods with the little boy Albino, together with Pinocchio and the Cat and the Fox and the Poodle Medoro.

Let him take you out of the black and white chaos of yesterday, into a technicolor world of tomorrow.

Let him give you a breathtaking glimpse of the human soul.

Let him reveal the secret of eternal life.

Let him reveal what he meant, when he told us,

"Don't knock yourself out over smart monkeys and Adam and Eve. Each of us is responsible for our own evolution. We can choose to remain as mortal men, or, we can evolve as Gods."

THE MOTH AND THE BUTTERFLY

"God is the Father, more so, the Mother."

John Paul I, St. Peter's Basilica, September 10, 1978

I would like to tell you of Audrey, of my friend Audrey.

She was in my class in high school, as homely as they come; horned-rimmed glasses and all. Not a hint of a personality; seemed to have been born without the instinct to smile.

Nothing, no, not a thing that could attract a friend, let alone a boyfriend. A sad state of affairs; one that each time I saw her, would touch my heart, as when one sees a sad-faced dog. As for me, I had no trouble attracting friends. Though I was no Cary Grant, I was one of the smartest kids in the class and a four-letter man in the field.

I will remember my junior prom all of my life, for as long as I live, every day of my life. Not so much for what was there, but, rather, for what was not there.

On my arm, was the prettiest girl in the class, and we danced all night. Later, after I had dropped her off, I drove home and sat in my car for a bit.

I thought not of the prettiest girl at the dance, but, of the homeliest. Audrey had not been there. No one, not a soul, had made it his responsibility to let her, too, have her time.

One of those things one calls, tears, climbed up out of my heart, started from the crevice of my eye, and crept toward the lid. I looked, first, to the right, then, to the left, then, again, to the right, and, then, to the left, once more.

Not quite, yet, a man, I let it slip out onto my cheek.

In my heart, nothing, no, not a thing, was left in its place.

The following winter had come and gone. It was the week of the senior prom. As I came down the walkway, as was often the case, she was coming the other way.

Where normally we would pass with a downcast "Hi," this time I walked straight into her as to block her path.

She, frightened, asked, "What's wrong? I don't understand?"

I cut her off, "I...