128 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
language that no beauty expressed in marble or upon canvas
can equal.
The instrument through which man senses music is the
most perfect sense organ in the human body. The eye is not
by any means true, but the ear is, in the sense that it hears
every sound without distortion, while the eye often distorts
what it sees.
In addition to the musical ear, the musician must also
learn to build a long, fine hand with slender fingers and
sensitive nerves, otherwise he would not be able to
reproduce the melodies he hears.
It is a law of nature that no one can inhabit a more
efficient body that he is capable of building. He first learns
to build a certain grade of body and afterwards he learns to
live in it. In that way he discovers its defects and is taught
how to remedy them.
All men work unconsciously at the building of their
bodies during ante-natal life until they have reached the
point where the quintessence of former bodies—which they
have saved—is to be built in. Then they work consciously. It
will therefore be seen that the more a man advances and the
more he works on his vehicles, thus making them immortal,
the more power he has to build for a new life. The advanced
pupil of an occult school sometimes commences to build for
himself as soon as the work during the first three weeks
(which belongs exclusively to the mother) has been
completed. When the period of unconscious building has
passed the man has a chance to exercise his nascent creative
power, and the true original creative process—
“Epigenesis”—begins.
Thus we see that man learns tobuild his vehicles in the
Heaven World, and touse them in the Physical World.