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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
a spirit should appear for several successive lives in a
certain sex.
The law is this:
As the sun moves backward among the twelve constella-
tions by the movement which we call the precession of the
equinoxes, the climate of the earth, the flora and fauna are
slowly changed, thus making a different environment for
the human race in each successive age. It takes the sun
about two thousand years to go through one of the signs
by precession, and in that time the spirit is usually born
twice, once as a man and once as a woman. The changes
which take place in the thousand years between incarna-
tions are not so great but that the spirit will be able to
extract the experiences of that environment from the standpoint
of both man and woman.
However, there may sometimes be cases where the time
is also changed. Xone of these .laws are inflexible as the
laws of the Medes and the Persians, but are administered
by Great Intelligences for the benefit of mankind,
so that
conditions may be changed in order to fit the exigencies of
individual cases. For instance, in the case of a musician.
He cannot find the material wherewith to build his body
everywhere. He needs particular help to build the three
semi-circular canals of his ear in such a manner that they
will point as nearly as possible in the three directions of
space; he also needs special help
fibres of Corti, for his ability to distinguish
to build the delicate
shades of
tone depends upon these features.
In such a case, when a family of musicians with whom
he has connection is in a position to give birth to a child,
lie may be brought there, though his stay in the Heaven
World should not ordinarily terminate for another hun-
dred years, for perhaps another opportunity might not offer