In "The Heart of Things," in the Chapter "The Specific Influence of the Sexes in Reproduction," and again in the Chapter "Images," certain mysteries of the generative process were explained. This explanation ended thus: "We have for the present spoken our last word concerning that great secret of Nature, the reproduction of kind." In this third volume of the series we shall here give out a few additional facts.

In the chapters mentioned it was in substance said that the one chief atom and the six associate atoms peculiar to each of the four lower human principles, exist in pralaya in the auric egg while posthumous man moves to more and more interior planes. As the nucleus of a principal, these four chief atoms awaken each to creative activity only when, in its descent to re-embodiment, the ego reaches the plane proper to that atom.

The new teaching is as follows: In their unalterable arrangement, the seven chief permanent atoms proper to the seven principles of man are a minature seven-fold globe chain. From the astral to the atmic, these atoms are more and more tenuous, and of larger and larger circumference; besicles they interpenetrate like the globes of our sevenfold world. The vibration which the male imparts to the spermatozoon (itself one of a group distinguishable from six other groups) and the vibration which the female imparts to the ovum, attract the re-incarnating entity as a whole, but largely they attract the lower quarternary by means of its four chief permanent atoms. However, compulsion ensues only through the triple vibration caused by the entrance of the spermatozoon into the ovum.

Having drawn the quarternary to the ovum, this triple material vibration bends that quarter nary to the requirements of pre-natal life. Therefore it condenses to an infinitesimal sphere which, entering the ovum, unites with the spermatozoon the basic material of its future human body. As for those three chief atoms the nucleus of the higher triad, conforming only in a degree to the double vibration, they envelope the growing foetus with a protecting influence.

After the sixth month of foetal growth, the first faint influence of these chief triad atoms is discoverable by one who has developed keen psychic sense. Henceforth, during the first six years of childhood, that influence increases and, at about the seventh year, the chief permanent atoms of the triad, having come more and more under the influence of the material organism, condense into the heart center, and therefrom influence the higher brain centers, even as the Spiritual Sun influences that triad of planets Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus.

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