CHAPTER XIV. 



INITIAL IMPRESSIONS. 



INITIAL IMPRESSIONS. Or, the law whereby 

 existing physical and mental states of parents; 

 particularly the strength and activity of their 

 several vital functions and mental faculties at the 

 time of conception, modify the heredity of off- 

 spring. 



The ultimate possibilities of every man are 

 determined largely by three moments. ( i ) The 

 initial of life ; when the creative forces of father- 

 hood and motherhood unite to form a soul and Generation, 

 start it voyaging toward Eternity's shore. ( 2 ) 

 Birth ; when the child is severed from trie mater- 

 nal heart, breathes for the first time the breath 

 of life, receives the baptism of the stars, and 

 begins the battle of individual existence. (3) 

 Regeneration; when a soul is quickened by the 

 Holy Spirit, awakened to the consciousness of its 

 oneness with God, and takes up the development 

 of a spiritual, immortal ego. 



The importance of ea.ch of these periods can 

 scarcely be estimated. They are the all-deter- 

 mining moments of every life, infinite in their Decisive Periods 

 possibilities, pre-eminent for good or for evil. f 

 From time immemorial the astrologers have em- 

 phasized the all-determining power of the 

 moment of biVth; not that the stars necessarily 



