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	Human Birth</p>
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	Last week I spoke of birth and how a soul enters into a body. I told 
	you that the body is formed in a very unsatisfactory manner almost 
	in the case of every person, the exceptions are so rare that one 
	need not mention them. I told you that because of this obscure birth 
	man is made to carry with him quite a bundle of things which later 
	on he has generally to get rid of, if he wishes to progress truly in 
	life. I told you in effect that you are made to come by force, 
	conditions are imposed upon you by force, and by force you obey the 
	laws of heredity. Now, I am asked who or what is it that forces? I 
	shall answer as clearly as possible.
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<p class="para"> The body is formed by a man and a 
woman who are the father and the mother; these when they form the body have no 
means to ask of the being whom they are bringing into the world whether he likes 
it or whether it is agreeable to his destiny. They impose upon the body, by the 
force of necessity, an atavism, an environment and subsequently an education 
which are almost always obstacles to future growth. A growing soul or a soul 
full-grown taking birth in a body has to fight against these circumstances that 
are forced upon him by the animal birth in order to find his true path and 
discover his own self in its fullness.</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-81</p>
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<p class="para"> It is possible, however, for the 
parents, instead of doing the thing in the animal way, driven by mere instinct 
and desire, most of the time even without wanting it, to do it with a conscious 
will, aspiring, praying almost that the body they are about to bring forth 
should be a form suitable to clothe a soul coming at their call. I have known 
people,—there are not many, of course, still there are some,—who chose especial 
circumstances, prepared themselves, holding an attitude of concentration, 
meditation and aspiration, invoking some exceptional being to come into the body 
they were to form. For that one must have also an occult knowledge which people 
generally do not possess.
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<p class="para"> In ancient times, in some 
civilisations and even now in some countries, the expectant woman is put 
specially in a surrounding of beauty and harmony and peace and ease and very 
normal physical conditions so that the coming child may be formed under the best 
circumstances. Evidently this is as it should be, for it is within human 
possibilities. Human beings have developed enough not to consider it as an 
exceptional thing. And yet in fact, it is an exceptional thing, for there are 
very few people who think of it, most are in the habit of producing children 
without giving a thought to it. But the least that is expected of man is that he 
should be somewhat conscious and do things he has to do in the best of 
conditions.
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<p class="para"> Now, a fully formed conscious 
soul wanting to take birth looks generally from its psychic domain for a
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-82</p>
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<p class="para">corresponding psychic light upon some place on earth. In its 
previous birth, before leaving the earthly atmosphere, it chose, as the result 
of its total experience in that life, the conditions of its future life, not in 
details, but more or less in a general way. Such cases are very exceptional. We 
here perhaps can speak of it, but for the majority of the human population, even 
among the most educated, the question does not arise.
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<p class="para"> Normally we are dealing with a 
soul that is growing, which is in the process of its growth. Now, there are all 
the stages of growth, from the tiniest spark that is becoming a little light up 
to the fully conscious and fully formed being. This ascent of the soul in order 
to become a mature conscious being, having its own will and deciding its own 
destiny, takes thousands of years.
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<p class="para"> When, however, it is a free and 
conscious soul that seeks to take a body again upon earth, it begins to work 
upon the body even before the birth. Such being the case, it has no reason not 
to accept the inconveniences that result from the ignorance of the parents. It 
has chosen its place for a reason which is a reason not of ignorance: it saw a 
light—which may be simply a light of possibility; but there was a light and that 
is why it came there. And when from the domain of the psychic it looks upon the 
earth and has chosen its place of birth, the choice has sufficient discernment 
in it not to have made a gross mistake.
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<p class="para"> In any case, even in the very 
best of situations, when a soul comes down consciously and when it has 
consciously
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-83</p>
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<p class="para">worked in the formation of the physical body, so long as the 
body is formed in the usual animal way, the soul will have to struggle and to 
correct all that comes from this human animality.
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<p class="para"> The parents have naturally a 
particular formation, they have a particular kind of good or bad health; at the 
very best, they have a lot of atavistic tendencies, habits, subconscious and 
even conscious complexes, deriving from their own birth, their environment and 
the life they led. And even if they are remarkable people, in their own way, 
usually they carry a quantity of things that are contrary to the true psychic 
life, I mean, even if they are the very best, the most conscious. And when the 
parents have done their utmost to give their children the best education, the 
children come in contact with all kinds of other people who have a great 
influence upon them especially when they are very young; these influences enter 
into the subconscious and they have to be fought against later on.
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<p class="para"> So I say, because of the way in 
which the body is brought into being at present, you have to face innumerable 
difficulties, corning more or less from the subconscient, that rise to the 
surface with which you have to fight if you want to be free entirely and develop 
normally.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-84</p>
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