2/01/18
“All these faculties together form the mental body for his opening life on earth, and his brain and nervous system are shaped to give this mental body expression on the physical plane.
Thus the mental images created in one life appear as mental characteristics and tendencies in another, and for this reason it is written in one of the Upanishads: “Man is a creature of reflection; that which he reflects on in this life he becomes the same hereafter.”
Such is the law, and it places the building of our mental character entirely in our own hands; if we build well, ours the advantage and the credit; if we build badly, ours the loss and the blame.
Mental character, then, is a case of individual karma in its action on the individual who generates it.”
Annie Besant
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 