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234 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
and tendencies, physical organization, health or disease,
happiness or misery, are impressed upon the infinitesi
mal germ and the inconceivably minute zoosperm. The
microscopic animalcule, shaped like an elongated tad
pole, is, in a reality, a blackguard, liar, a thief, a scoun
drel ; or it is scrofulous, or syphilitic, or gouty ; or it is
idiotic, or insane : all these, if formed by a parent of
whom these are actual qualities. And so it is of the
germ prepared in the ovary of the mother. So the sins
of parents are visited on their children to the third and
fourth generation, and, where the causes continue, to
the thirtieth and fortieth.
Father and mother, therefore, at the time of beget
ting, must be in all pure, and natural, and healthy con
ditions. If the parents love each other, the child will
love its parents. But if a woman submits to be im
pregnated by a man whom she loathes and hates, that
loathing and hatred will be impressed upon the child.
It will show it in infancy, and it often lasts through life.
Mr. O. S. Fowler gives an account of a man who had
never been able, from his birth, to look at his father,
from the impression made upon him by the mother,
previous to or during pregnancy. For these reasons,
if for no others, sexual commerce should never take
place but in a most loving union of congenial souls.
Two persons may have sworn eternal love upon a
"
stack of Bibles ;" but if they do not love, they have no
right
to have children. Sexual union should never
take place in sickness, or depression, or fatigue, nor
under the influence of stimulants. Mr. Combe has
given a case in which an idiot was the product of
Bexual union during a drunken frolic. The world ia