CONCEPTIONAL PERIOD. 13i 



CONCEPTIONAL PERIOD. 



No other one thing tends so strongly to bind and hold the early 

 affection of a married couple as the bringing into the world of beau- 

 tiful, healthy, intelligent, welcome children. To bring into the world 

 unwelcome children is one of the most awful crimes of which the 

 parents can be guilty. It brings a curse to the child, to the parents 

 and to the world. 



But every couple may have intelligent, attractive and sweet children, 

 if they will obey the laws of nature in the period previous to conception 

 and during at least the first six months of the period of gestation. 



Every young couple intending to enter the marriage relation should 

 know fully what a terrible curse they are liable to transmit to their 

 future children through ignorance of the vital principles that regulate 

 reproduction. In the first place, no one should ever allow such a thing 

 to happen accidentally. Physical and mental preparation should always 

 precede that supremely important moment that may mean welfare or 

 woe to a future human soul. 



It is of the utmost importance that the body and the mind of both 

 parents be prepared for some days or weeks before the moment of con- 

 ception. Antenatal influences help, but the tendency is already im- 

 planted with the seed and the ovum at the time of conception. More 

 than a year before the birth of the great Napoleon both his parents were 

 absorbed in study of battle and conquest. The result was apparent. 

 Could we know the story about all our great heroes and heroines we 

 should doubtless find that in every instance, as we certainly do in so 

 many, the force and power that actuated them was given by the parents, 

 either through force of circumstances or by design, previous to the time 

 the child was conceived. 



If you desire beautiful children, fix your thoughts on beautiful things. 

 If your desires lean more toward the intellect, employ your thoughts in 

 study, and so in other directions. If the parents themselves are not pure 

 in body, heart and soul, at the time of conception, they cannot hope to 

 transmit these qualities. This attended to, it then remains with the 

 mother to mold the infant growing within her by being herself at t^hal 

 time what she would like her child to be. If she does this, she can no 

 more prevent its mighty influence upon the character of the child than she 

 can prevent the sun from rising. And this works, unconsciously of course, 

 both ways. Hence the terrible significance and importance of under- 

 standing and obeying this law of nature. 



