I believe in reincarnation.
They missed a few allusions to reincarnation when they purged it from the holy texts. Just off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of examples, although I can't tell you what book and chapter you will find them in:
Jesus asked "Who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
And, of course, the people asked Jesus if he was Elijah (reincarnated.)
Justinian was such an egotistical person that he commissioned large mosaics of himself and his wife, Theodora, complete with halos, representing them both as saints, for the inside of the church of St. Vitale. A beliefe in reincarnation indicates a belief that no one is perfect and so all must reincarnate. Justinian couldn't allow anyone to think that he or his wife had ever been found wanting, so the belief in reincarnation had to go. This was long before anyone had ever thought of separating government and religion.
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As propaganda, Justinian portrayed himself as the "regent of Christ on earth." The portrait mosaics of the Emperor and Empress face each other from their positions across the apse: Justinian and his retinue are situated in the most holy place in the church, the right-hand (north) side of the altar, while Theodora and her attendants occupy the just slightly lesser left-hand (south) side of the altar. Justinian's image is both immediate in its individualization and eternal in its iconography. Set against a flat, timeless gold background, Justinian is richly dressed in a cloak of imperial purple, and a halo encircles his glittering crown. He holds a gold paten containing the Communion bread towards the altar, and is accompanied by other men, some bearing Christian objects:a censer, a jeweled cross, an ornately-covered book, and a soldier's shield displaying Christ's monogram, the Chi-Rho.