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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
the mind, the violent and impulsive desire body rules and
we have the raving maniac. When the break is between
the Ego and the mind, the mind is the ruler over the
other vehicles and we have the cunning maniac, who
may deceive his keeper into believing that he is perfectly
harmless until he has hatched some diabolical, cunning
scheme. Then he may suddenly show his deranged men-
tality and cause a dreadful catastrophe.
There is one cause of insanity that it may be well to
explain, as it is sometimes possible to avoid it. When
the Ego is returning from the invisible world toward re-
embodiment,
it is shown the various incarnations available.
It sees the coming life in its great and general events,
much as a moving picture passing before its vision. Then
it is given the choice, usually, of several lives. It sees
at that time the lessons it has to learn, the fate it has
generated for itself in past lives, and what part of that
fate it will have to liquidate in each of the embodiments
offered. Then it makes its choice and is guided by the
agents of the Recording Angels to the country and family
where it is to live its coming life.
This panoramic view is seen in the Third Heaven
where the Ego is naked and feels spiritually
above sordid
material considerations. It is much wiser then than it
appears here on earth, where it is blinded by the flesh to an
inconceivable extent. Later, when conception has taken
place and the Ego draws into the womb of its mother, on
about the eighteenth day after that event, it comes in contact
with the etheric mold of its new physical body which
has been made by the Recording Angels to give the brain
formation that will impress upon the Ego
the tendencies
necessary to work out its destiny.
There the Ego sees again the pictures of its coming life,