making of the universe: the guidance of the lords

2/13/18

“An Ego who has evolved peculiarities in his mental and astral bodies, needing special physical peculiarities for their expression, is guided to parents whose physical heredity enables them to meet these requirements.

Thus an ego with high artistic faculties devoted to music would be guided to take his physical body in a musical family, in which the materials supplied for building the etheric double and the dense body would have been made ready to adapt themselves to his needs, and the hereditary type of nervous system would furnish the delicate apparatus necessary for the expression of his faculties.

An Ego of very evil type would be guided to a coarse and vicious family, whose bodies were built of the coarsest combinations, such as would make a body able to respond to the impulses from his mental and astral bodies.

An Ego who had allowed his astral body and lower mind to lead him into excesses, and had yielded to drunkenness, for instance, would be led to incarnate in a famiy whose nervous systems were weakened by excess, and would be born from drunken parents, who would supply diseased materials for his physical envelope.

The guidance of the Lords of Karma thus adjust means to ends, and insures the doing of justice;

the Ego brings with him his karmic possessions of faculties and desires, and he receives a physical body suited to be their vehicle.”

 

Annie Besant