a quick question about reincarnation
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This may seem like a weird question but I'm genuinely curious about the answer to it
It seems that the lots of Thelemites believe that after death we will be reincarnated back on earth. Here's the question, What do you think happens if the earth gets utterly destroyed by an asteroid or something similar? Would humans still incarnate in the physical realm?
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Ideas:
.an other planet might get in earth's place and function and be the "new" earth. Earth as we know it(the particles involved) might recompose itself into an other planet of different function
.for humans who were anyway to be reincarnated they might according to timing either reincarnate on the "new" earth, or on a distant one already existing
If there is a necessity there will be a way to fulfill it.
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There are other planets.
Somewhere - maybe in Liber Aleph? - Crowley specifically endorses the view of planetary transmigration. The Mass goes further, and lists as options after death, "...the labor and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any Star."
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Thanks for the replies. That leads to my next question, what is the Thelemic stance on alien life?
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@Captainmaharaj said
"Thanks for the replies. That leads to my next question, what is the Thelemic stance on alien life?"
I don't know that there is one - certainly nothing official or generalizable to Thelema per se - unless it's implicit in things like the above.
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@Captainmaharaj said
"Thanks for the replies. That leads to my next question, what is the Thelemic stance on alien life?"
this is the question that only a very advanced alien life-form can answer - one that is able to oversee the minds of all the Thelemites of the world, and make such a conclusion on the subject that it's at the same time accurate for all of them as a whole and every one of them in particular 
Jokes aside, I don't think there's any such sort of "consensus" among Thelemites regarding this subject. It's a matter of individual opinion and experience.
My personal stance is: there is alien life
The answer largely depends on your definitions of "alien" and "life".