are choked with the warring and who suffer most and die youngest.

The same thing is true of people at all ages. Wisdom does not necessarily come with years, though no soul ever lived five minutes that did not in that time discover and eliminate mistakes by waking up to more, or less truth. All experience enlightens— even that of being born to die in a day or a week.

Don’t imagine babies are such ignorant little lumps. They are not. They are wise enough to choose their environment— just the one best calculated to teach them what they most need to know NOW. To be sure they do not choose parents as you and I would go out and look over a stableful of horses and choose one. They do better than that. As the birds obey the desire to fly south when winter comes down with frosty breath, so the infant soul obeys its sub-conscious desire for a particular parentage. In other words, parent and child are attracted; and each furnishes to the other the particular sort of experience necessary to its next further growth.

Just as we sometimes wiped off our problem before we had half a dozen figures down, because we had found our mistake and wished to correct our work, so the infant soul may find a big mistake and wipe out its body—only to begin again somewhere else.

Oh, don’t be sceptical because you can’t remember doing such things. You cannot remember many things that happened just a few years ago. How,’ then, shall you remember back to the time you chose your parents? Or still further back to the infinitely greater number of parents you may have chosen in succession, since the beginning of eternity. You cannot even remember those problems you put on and wiped off your slate at school. Is it, then, wonderful that you forget some other things?

But you can do other problems like those you learned on, and do them almost unconsciously, so easy has it become. You learned much on those old forgotten “sums”—you remember the “how,” but you forget where you learned how.

So, no wonder you forget your old bodies and experiences. But the wisdom gained with them is still with you.

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