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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 148
In a similar manner, experiences
we have had in differ-
ent lives are usually forgotten by the man, but the faculties
he has cultivated remain and are ready for his use at any
time. Thus we sometimes see a man who has never had
a lesson in painting who is nevertheless an artist to the
very tips of his finger ends, able to paint the most wonder-
ful pictures. He has brought over from past lives a fac-
ulty which he is now able to use. When we hear of a
Mozart composing at three years of age, that also shows
the accumulation of the sense of harmony in the past'.
Thus it may be said that, although we do not remember,
we always have the faculties cultivated in our past lives for
use in the present. It is thaf which makes the difference
between man and man; between the dunce and the sage.
There is, however, also a record m nature of our past
lives in their minutest detail. The trained clairvoyant
who is able to read in the memory of nature can follow the
past lives of a man backwards, as, for instance, the film
of a moving picture is unrolled in reverse order. He will
see the man's present life first, his birth, his previous so-
journ in the invisible world, next the death of the previous
life, which will then unroll itself in reverse order through
old age, manhood, youth, childhood and infancy, back to
that birth, and so on through the various lives.