What is born of the union of the spirit and the body?

The physical of you is created on the earth-plane. 

The mental is born of the union of the spirit and the body―

Until the spirit enters and controls the body, there is no life in it. 

The baby's spirit is not contained inside its body in its pre-natal condition, but is connected with it by the silver cord (exactly as any other person's body and soul are when the latter is operating independently, as it does often when the body sleeps―or is under an anaesthetic) and remains outside in its mother's aura. 

When any woman is going to be a mother, the orange life-giving ray is attracted to her. 

It is in the earth-atmosphere―always ready to be diverted. 

Directly this ray is connected with the mother's organism, a little atom―or brilliant drop starts trickling down the ray. 

It is like a drop of quicksilver. 

As it starts, it divides into two―so whenever there is one new soul born, there is always its counterpart.

 

The drop does not start from any one particular spot―or place―or part of God―

It leaves something there―a trail, as it were, which remains linked up still in the God-element―still connected to the little drop, like a very long, slender twig connecting a leaf to a branch―connected always, however low a man may fall, for severing it would mean annihilation. 

This is a subtle point. 

The place from which you start and to which you remain connected is your particular bit of God―so you need not think of yourself as lost in God, but as having your own little part in Him that belongs to you alone.

God works automatically always through the regular operation of His laws.

 

As I told you―

The drop―just as it starts―divides into two. 

One part goes to one mother and one to another. 

One is always male and the other female. 

As the drop travels slowly to earth, it gets larger and larger and begins to shape out and take more space. 

By the time it reaches the mother's aura, it is almost the size and shape of a tiny, weeny baby and so remains with the mother until the time of birth. 

If this is premature, the spirit is jerked―or drawn rather abruptly into it, and so does not get control of the little body as well as if it had had the proper time to do it. 

This partly accounts for the high death-rate under these circumstances. 

It is not only physical reasons but because the Life-force does not have a strong hold of the body. 

As the child is born, the spirit goes into it. 

The spirit―because it is of God―has a consciousness of its own, but not conscious personality―that has to be developed. 

It will be developed by the spirit operating through the body. 

Therefore, by unison of soul and body, we have mental growth and growth of personality.

The world is full of this Life-force―or these rays, and they automatically act in suitable environments.

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