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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION No. 69.
Do we come in contact with the friends of one life when
we are born again into a new earth life?
Answer: The law of rebirth has for its companion law
the law of causation. It will be manifestly apparent that
there are many causes set going by all of us which do not
bring about effects in this life. For instance, a husband
is sick and the wife cares for him with great self-sacrifice.
There is obviously a debt there, and if the sickness con-
tinues until the end of the husband's life, there is in that
life no opportunity for a return of the favor. 73ut if we
know what the laws of nature are and how they operate,
we shall understand that they are not set aside by such
small matters as cessation of life in a certain body. If
we break a limb it is not healed the next day, although we
may have slept at night unconscious of our hurt; but when
we awaken the limb is in about the same condition as on
the previous day. So it is with the deeds done in the body
in one life. Although we pass through the life between
death and a new birth, and are now unconscious of former
lives, nevertheless, when we enter upon a new life, the law
of association, the causes generated in a former life, will
bring
us into a new environment where we shall find our
old friends and our old foes. We know them, too, al-
though perhaps we do not directly recognize them. Some-
times, however, we meet a person for the first time and are
drawn to that person; we feel as if we had known that
person all our lives,
with everything we have. .
and that we could trust him or her
That is because the spirit within
sees an old friend and recognizes him, though unable to