46 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
The highest in one life becomes the lowest in the next
and thus we gradually climb the ladder of evolution
towards divinity.
From the foregoing it will be evident that the vital
body is a vehicle of habit; all parents know that during
the first seven years of childhood when this vehicle is
in course of gestation that children form one habit after
another. Repetition is the keynote of the vital body,
and habits depend upon repetition. It is different with
the desire body, the vehicle of feelings and emotions
which are always changing from moment to moment;
though it has been said that the ether which forms our
soul body is in constant motion and mingles with the
bloodstream, that motion is relatively slow compared
to the rapidity of the current of the desire body; we
may say that the ether moves like a snail compared
with light.
When the Ego is on its way to rebirth through the
Region of Concrete Thought, the Desire World, and
the Etheric Region, it gathers a certain amount of
material from each. The quality of this material is
determined by the seed atom, on the principle that like
attracts like. The quantity depends upon the amount of
matter required by the archetype built by ourselves in
the second Heaven. From the quantity of prismatic
ether atoms that are appropriated by a certain Spirit,
the Recording Angels and their agents build an etheric
form which is then placed in the mother’s womb and
gradually clothed with physical matter which then
forms the visible body of the newborn child.
Only a small portion of the ether appropriated by a
certain Ego is thus used, and the remainder of the