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Do you never become discouraged,? | asked, ?in the face of such overwhelming odds?? It was Firkon who said, ?We know nothing of what you call discouragement. That is a negative word. Long ago we learned the power of faith and hope, and of never giving up. The goal lost yesterday can be won tomorrow. This does not mean that we believe ourselves developed to the fullest extent. Far from it. We have eternity yet to travel. But on our worlds, we no longer have sickness or poverty, as you know it; nor crime, as you know it. We recognize man as the highest representation of Deity, the consummation of all lesser forms. Should we with hurtful intent harm any form, we know that we would be forcing that form to turn from its natural purpose and do us harm. ?You can see why the Creator has left us all to work out our own problems. When His laws are disobeyed, they witness against us. ?You speak of satan as though he were a separate en-my. But only by opposing the Divine principle can one create the inharmonious conditions which you have credited to satan, and which you yourselves must correct. Then you will find that satan becomes an angel of light, as your Scripture tells you. For all distortion must be corrected by the one who distorts.? As Firkon paused, Ramu?s mouth curved in the slight, grave smile so characteristic, as he said, ?The Sun rules not the Earth; nor does the Earth rule the Sun; nor do the stars rule each other. All are ruled by the Father. Here, from nature herself, does man begin to learn.? For some reason, this called to mind a subject on which | had long pondered. ?In regard to what we call death and rebirth,? | asked, ?should we be able to carry memories of the one life over into the next?? Ramu answered, ?That is possible in varying conscious degrees. Eternal man forgets nothing. But the memory of things learned in a former body seldom manifests as more than an instinctive knowledge of, or gravitation toward, certain familiar things. In his conscious mind, Earth man has little understanding of why this is so. When such aptitudes manifest in lesser degree, you label them talents or gifts. When present to a very marked degree, and especially when present in childhood, you call such people prodigies. ?Your planet is functioning under what you might call a low frequency. As a result, the growth and development of form life?and especially that of man?is slow, requiring much time between birth and maturity. When men are born on Earth, they remain in a helpless infantile stage for a far longer period than on other planets. By the time they have reached manhood or womanhood, whatever memory may have come over them with them at birth is well buried under the welter of misconceptions with which, during all those early years, they have been filled. ?Independent of natural law, man?s reasoning powers are very limited. The newcomer is crammed with the traditions and conventions of past centuries, and the positive memory of previous experience is crowded out. Such genuine memory sometimes flashes up from what you call the subconscious into the conscious mind, through some channel suddenly opened. This can be caused by meeting for the first time a person whom you feel you have known, or by the sight of a place never before visited in this life, but with which you appear to have authentic associations and memories. ?All such experiences are mystifying to