58 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
The mental troubles are particularly traceable to the
abuse of the creative function, when they are
congenital, with one exception which we shall note
later. The same holds true in case of impairment of the
faculty of speech. This is reasonable and easy to
understand. The brain and the larynx were built with
half of the creative force by the Angels, so that man
who, prior to the acquisition of these organs, was
bisexual and able to create from himself alone, lost
that faculty when these organs were created and is now
dependent upon the cooperation of another of opposite
polarity or sex in order to generate a new vehicle for
an incoming Spirit.
When we use spiritual sight to look at man in the
Memory of Nature during the time when he was yet in
the making, we find that wherever there is now a
nerve, there was first a desire current; that the brain
itself was made of desire substance in the first place
and also the larynx. It was desire that first sent a
motive impulse through the brain and created these
nerve currents, that the body might be moved and
obtain for the Spirit whatever gratification was
indicated by desire. Speech, also, is used for the
purpose of obtaining a desired object or end. Through
these faculties man has obtained a certain mastery over
the world, and if he could just flit from one body to
another, there would be no end to his abuse of his
power for gratifying every whim and desire. But under
the Law of Consequence he takes with him into a new
body, faculties and organs similar to those which he
left behind in the one preceding.
When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it
is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to