Solar Biology

24 SOLAR BIOLOGY.
tion of the mind of the most positive parent ;
while the
planetary positions express the mental conditions of
the most negative parent, whether father or mother.
Sometimes we find these two conditions antagonistic
to each other. If the child is a male, the external of
its nature will embody the most positive
mental condition
at conception, and the interior the most negative.
If the child is a female, the order is reversed.
The external comprises the thought arising through
the medium of the five senses, while the interior nature
and intuitions. Thus
comprises the loves, aspirations,
the soul life of the child consists of the thought formations
arising from external and internal sources, the
body being a chemical laboratory used by the spirit to
transmute or generate thought or soul life ;
for all that
makes us conscious individuals is the thought formar
tions arising from the experience and mental conditions
of the past. Either of these three entities, spirit, body,
or soul, is capable of becoming the dominant actor, subjugating
the others to it.
The exterior body of the child may be termed thought
crystallization, and, being the crystallized thought of
the parents, it frequently controls the nature and mental
condition of the mother during the term of gestation ;
so much so, that in the particulars wherein the child
would be like the father, the thoughts, feelings, and
even the appetites, are often moulded like those of
the
father, or his ancestral lineage, of whose nature the
child partakes.
In judging of character, we must first determine
which of these three natures is the leading one. The
spirit leads in taking cognizance of invisible causes ;