92 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
consists of impressions of events on the vital body. These
may be changed or even eradicated, as noted in the
explanation concerning the forgiveness of sins which is
given a few pages further on, which change or eradication
depends upon the elimination of these impressions from the
ether of the vital body.
There is also a superconscious memory. That is the
storehouse of all faculties acquired and knowledge gained in
previous lives, though perhaps latent in the present
incarnation. This record is indelibly engraven on the life
spirit. It manifests ordinarily, though not to the full extent, as
conscience and character which ensouls all thought-forms,
sometimes as counsellor, sometimes compelling action with
resistless force, even contrary to reason and desire.
In many women, in whom the vital body is positive, and
in advanced people of either sex where the vital body has
been sensitized by a pure and holy life, by prayer and
concentration, this superconscious memory inherent in the
life spirit is occasionally, to some extent, above the necessity
of clothing itself in mind stuff and desire matter in order to
compel action. It does not always need to incur the danger of
being subjected to and perhaps overruled by a process of
reasoning. Sometimes, in the form of intuition or teaching
from within, it impresses itself directly upon the reflecting
ether of the vital body. The more readily we learn to
recognize it and follow its dictates, the oftener it will speak,
to our eternal welfare.
By their activities during waking hours the desire body
and the mind are constantly destroying the dense vehicle.
Every thought and movement breaks down tissue. On the
other hand, the vital body faithfully endeavors to restore
harmony and build up what the other vehicles are tearing