Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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Thus a !4ympathy with and an attraction to the organic soul
qnalitieR of the parents, or, in other wor,l!l, prenatal conditions.
are nse1l a!l an in!ltrumentality to make a !luitable reincarnation
for a !Iotti that has rea~!hed a con1lition and stage of cle\•elopment
!limilar to tho!le which the parent!! pn!lse.;!l: that is, nnle!ls
tlae soul had loved allll believed ia~ these prenatal .conditions
and allowed them to cnntml it in forme a~ li ve!l, it woul1l not
have been 1lra.wn to the parentR wlw at the time e1!1hndy thoRe
condition!!. The soul i~ attt·adt-11. when seeking incarnation, to
alaental state!4 like itself, and fa·om preui!4ely the same causes
that attmct, ba·ing into associate a·ela.tion, men and men, men
and wnmen, an1l women and women, in the social walks of life.
Thus prenatal conditions alway~ expre!l!4 enough of the former
life and habit, thought and belief, of the !lonl to attract it to
the oody that iR being fomt~l muler thoRe uonditionR. And
whatever men and women believe in as able to contt·ol them,.
that iR, whatevet· they h:we Jlot over1~onw, will form a part of
the evil passions and aeRires of the child-body nf tlwit· next incamati~n,
and will control them 11.11 an evil in tlwia· life 1111til
they have Kuffea·ed the result!! of thPir consequent. ill H