Soul and body become united at the very moment of conception, and is completed at the time of birth. Before conception a given entity or spirit is preordained to become reincarnated in a body. At the moment of conception the spirit designated to inhabit a given body becomes united to said body by a fluidic element, which becomes closer and denser up to the moment of birth; the faint cry of the infant at birth announces and is the alarm that the entity is now to be numbered among the living on the earth plane. The union between a spirit or entity with its future body at the moment of conception is definitive.

No other entity could replace the one designated for the body. The strands that unite a spirit and its fluidic body are at first very weak and easily broken and could be severed by the spirit or a number of spirits if they so wish, and of course in this case conception, although it had taken place, would not materialize and the child would die; then this spirit would inhabit another body; but death of this kind is more times caused by imperfections of matter. Many times such deaths are only intended as a trial for parents. Whenever a spirit or entity fails in reincarnating itself another existence is not always immediately provided for it. Many spirits after they become permanently united to an infant body regret their conditions and may complain of the life they are forced to undergo. The spirit, of course, after it becomes united to its body has no recollection that it became united to said body through its own choice, consequently it cannot regret a choice which it is not conscious of having made. This is one of the keys and causes of so many suicides, as you have many persons who believe that their burden in life is to heavy to bear and that the only recourse is suicide.

A spirit during the interval between conception and birth has the use of its faculties more or less, according to the various periods of gestation; for it is not yet fully incarnated in its new habitation or body, but only attached to it. But from the instant of conception concern begins to take possession of the entity, who is now aware that the vital moment is near for it to enter upon an earthly existence; its confusion and concern becomes more pronounced until the moment of birth. During the interval between conception and birth the spirit that is to be reincarnated passes through a condition of concern that increases in portion as the moment of birth approaches, the knowledge of its past life and spiritual existence becomes effaced, together with its remembrance of all previous states and periods of existence, of which, when once it has entered upon earth life, it is no longer conscious of its past. But this memory will come back to it slowly after it returns to Spirit Life after death of its body. The Spirit at the moment of birth does not recover the plentitude of its faculties, as they become gradually developed with the growth of its physical organs and Earth Life, for it. becomes an entirely new existence; it is even forced to learn to make use of its new body.

In time certain ideas come back to it little by little, as a dream will gradually come to the surface of your memory. A complete union of spirit and body are not definitely consummated until the birth has taken place, and the foetus cannot be considered as having a soul, as the spirit who is to inhabit it exists as it were outside of it. Strictly speaking, therefore, it has no soul, since the incarnation of the entity is only in course of being effected, but is only attached to the soul which is to have it The nature of intrauterine life is that of the plant which vegetates. The foetus, however, lives with vegetable and animal life, to which the union of a soul with the child body at birth adds spiritual life. There are many children so constituted that they cannot live. These births are preordained and permitted as a trial, either for the parents or for the spirit appointed to animate the body. Again, there are among still-born children many who were never intended for the reincarnation of a spirit. That is to say, the foetus has never had the spirit assigned to it. The still-born infant being simply a trial for the parents. The consequence of abortion makes the existence of a spirit on the earth plane null and void and must be commenced over again.

Artificial abortion is a sin and crime, no matter at what period of gestation it may be produced, as every transgression of the law of God is a crime. The mother, father or any other person who commits an abortion, thereby taking the earth life of an unborn child away, is necessarily a criminal; for by so doing a soul is prevented from undergoing the trials of which the body thus destroyed has been the instrument. In case of the life of a mother being in danger by the birth of a child it is not a crime to sacrifice the body of the child in order to save the mother, for it is better to sacrifice the being whose existence on earth has not been begun than the existence of the being or soul which is not yet complete. The will and handiwork of God should be respected by treating the foetus with the same respect that would be given to the body of a child had it lived and died.