THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23331, 25 October 1937, Page 14

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Speaking yesterday evening on “ The Mechanics of Reincarnation,” Mr J. M. McEwan said that when the soul, or ego, of man reincarnates, he descends from the heaven world, passes through the mental and emotional plane, to the physical plane, and on his downward way picks up on these three planes the permanent atom, that is, the atom containing the gist of ail experiences of past lives. These atoms have been called “ the luggage of the soul.” The physical atom must be in the body of the mother, then later when the baby’s physical body is being built, three great angels assist in the difficult process of selecting not only physical, but mental and emotional matter for the new body. At birth, therefore, the man is cut off from all recollections of the past and proceeds again to build new bodies for the expression of his life. Our present physical bodies are the outcome of our thoughts, feelings and actions in lives past, and usually, therefore, show the worst side of us in order that we may develop qualities lacking in our character. Our present desires may be much ahead of what we can express at the moment, for we are limited by the past, but as soon as the past is worked out by good deeds to correct the wrong, we are free to carry out some nobler desire. We can see it is impossible within the limit of three score years and ten to carry out all the desires of the soul; hence the

necessity for reincarnation. By our actions, emotions and thoughts of today we are building up hindrances or opportunities for the futures and even though we may be beset by laany difficulties, yet we can change re current of our lives by strict watchfulness of thought—for man is the maker of his own destiny. No one can upset the law of action and reaction, but anyone can modify an action set going in the past, just as a bowler, who. having thrown his first bowl in the wrong direction, will take another bowl and deflect the action of the first one, setting it right again. A great man has said thought is the basis of creation.