Birth - The spiritual implications of birth

Children Cannot Give Consent to Be Born

Some schools of thought argue that children cannot give consent to be born because consent requires an already existing, autonomous person capable of understanding a choice. Before birth, there is no such person - no consciousness, no agency, no ability to evaluate options or express a preference. From this perspective, consent is not merely absent; it is impossible. A child does not exist prior to birth, yet birth imposes an entire life - its risks, suffering, obligations, and limitations - on someone who had no opportunity to agree or refuse. This line of reasoning suggests that procreation bypasses consent entirely and imposes a lifelong condition on an unconsenting individual, raising serious questions about whether such an imposition can ever be justified.

If no child consents to being born, then the absence of consent appears to render procreation problematic, perhaps even unjust or wrong. The mere fact that every human exists could be interpreted as evidence of a universal injustice: each person was forced into existence without their approval. This leads naturally to a deeper question - if birth is an imposition, why do human beings continue to procreate? And more intriguingly, why are we biologically endowed with the capacity and instinct to reproduce?

Exploring the idea of birth without prior consent challenges assumptions about responsibility, and the purpose of physical existence. It forces us to confront the possibility that physical existence begins with an unavoidable contradiction: life is given without permission, yet once it begins, society expects the individual to navigate responsibilities, choices, and consequences as though they had willingly entered the world.

To follow this reasoning invites reflection on whether the absence of consent at the beginning of physical life undermines the legitimacy of the expectations placed on individuals later in life. It also raises the possibility that human beings procreate not because the act can be justified, but because biology, instinct, hope, and cultural continuity override the wider significance of the consent paradox.

Examining Birth Without Consent

A mother conceives and gives birth to a child, and in that moment a profound paradox emerges: a new human being enters the world without ever having agreed to do so. The child arrives in a family, a society, and a world, and eventually realises that not one single person in existence ever gave their consent to be born. Every human being was brought into existence without prior approval, without consultation, and without the ability to refuse. Yet despite this universal lack of consent, people continue to encourage procreation as though the contradiction carries no significance.

This raises a difficult question: how can one claim that conceiving a child without consent is just and lawful while simultaneously agreeing that the child never requested to exist? The tension between these two positions sits at the heart of one of the oldest questions in human thought. If existence is involuntary, how can responsibility ever be voluntary?

The argument begins with consent. If a person is brought into physical existence without choosing it, the act appears - at least from a strict physically observable standpoint - to resemble a kind of imposition. Yet society does not treat birth as an injustice; it treats it as a natural, even celebrated, event. Parents expect their children to grow, learn, and eventually become responsible adults. But this expectation raises a difficult question: at what point does an individual who never chose to physically exist become accountable for the consequences of that existence? Responsibility normally follows from decision, and if the foundational decision - the decision to exist - was never theirs, how can any later responsibility be fully justified?

This line of reasoning forces us to confront the assumptions that underlie social life. If one insists that birth without consent is a kind of injustice, then the only consistent way to justify a child’s existence would be to care for every need of that child until their physical life ends, never demanding responsibility from someone who never chose the burden of living. But such a model is impossible for any functioning society. It collapses under its own weight, because human communities depend on shared responsibility, mutual obligation, and the idea that individuals eventually become agents capable of choice - even if they did not choose the starting point of their lives.

From here, the questions multiply. What is the purpose of existence if it begins without consent? What benefit does physical life offer to the child, the parents, or society? How can someone who views themselves as a victim of forced existence ever be accountable for their actions? Are we simply taking chances, hoping that each new life will turn out well? When children ask adults why they were born, adults often admit they do not fully know, yet they still encourage the next generation to repeat the cycle.

The presence of a justice system in every country complicates the matter further. If existence itself begins with an act that could be framed as unjust, what exactly is the justice system trying to correct? Is it not, in some sense, an attempt to impose order after an initial disorder - a kind of medicine administered after the patient has already died? Birth without consent leaves a trail of unanswered questions, and if so many foundational questions cannot be answered, how can anyone be confident that they are making the right decisions throughout life?

A society built on the assumption or belief that everyone was forced into existence faces a troubling dilemma. Can meaningful goals be achieved if individuals do not know why they exist or what their existence contributes to the wider world? Can a community truly progress if its members view life as a mystery imposed upon them rather than a journey they willingly undertake?

Ultimately, this mode of reasoning reveals the limits of human understanding. It exposes the mystery at the core of human birth and highlights the tension between involuntary existence and voluntary responsibility.

What Lies Behind This Type of Reasoning?

The reason this mode of reasoning persists is that its proponents operate from a strictly physical worldview. They assume that only what can be observed, measured, or empirically verified truly exists. Anything beyond the physical is dismissed because it cannot be demonstrated through physical evidence. For them, reality is confined to what the five senses can detect and what science can confirm.

Within this framework, the idea of a non‑physical existence is not merely doubted; it is considered non-existent. If there is no person before birth in a physical sense, then there is no agent capable of giving consent. If consciousness is assumed to arise only after biological development, then the question of consent becomes impossible by definition. Their reasoning begins and ends with physicality, and because of this, the questions surrounding birth is framed entirely in material terms: a physical act (procreation) imposes a physical condition (existence) on a being who did not yet physically exist to approve or reject it.

This worldview shapes the entire argument. If existence is purely physical, then consent must also be physical. If consent requires a physically present, autonomous individual, then birth is inevitably an imposition. And if birth is an imposition, then procreation becomes questionable. The reasoning is materially consistent, but it is constrained by its refusal to consider any dimension of existence beyond the physical.

Expanding the discussion reveals how deeply this physicalist perspective influences the debate. It reduces human life to mere biological processes and treats every question about it as nothing more than a consequence of those processes. It leaves no room for non‑material forms of continuity or pre‑existence that could support a different interpretation of consent. In doing so, it frames the entire human condition as a physical event imposed on an unconsenting human being.

Whether one agrees with this worldview or not, it is clear that the argument depends entirely on the assumption or belief that only the physical is real. Once that assumption or belief is made, the rest of the reasoning follows with stark and unavoidable logic.

Other Dimensions of Existence Beyond the Physical

Human beings typically examine reality through the narrow window of their five physical senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. These senses act as the primary instruments through which we interact with the physical world, shaping our understanding of what exists and what does not. An individual who lacks one of these senses experiences a different version of reality, one that is limited by the absence of a particular perceptual tool. If someone has lost the ability to taste and is told that a certain food tastes like an orange fruit, they cannot form a conception of that flavour because they lack the perceptual foundation required to imagine it. Similarly, a person born blind cannot form a mental image of a described object because they have never perceived visual information. Their conception is constrained by the boundaries of their perception.

This limitation becomes even more apparent when we consider forms of energy such as electricity, heat, X‑rays, magnetism, and electrons. None of these phenomena can be directly perceived through the five senses, yet their existence is undeniable. We detect electricity through its effects, measure heat with instruments, observe X‑rays through specialised imaging, and understand magnetism through its influence on physical objects. These energies are invisible to our natural senses, but with the aid of tools and technology, their presence becomes observable and even quantifiable.

The same principle applies to emotions. Happiness, sadness, jealousy, hatred, and envy cannot be seen, touched, or measured in the traditional sensory sense, yet they exert powerful influence over human behaviour and relationships. Their invisibility does not negate their existence. Instead, it reveals that reality extends beyond what the five senses can capture.

These examples collectively demonstrate that existence is not confined to what can be perceived physically. There are layers of reality that surround us - energetic, and even emotional - that remain inaccessible to our physical senses. With the right tools, however, their effects become visible, measurable, and undeniable. This suggests that human perception is only one mode of accessing reality, and that conception - the ability to form ideas, beliefs, and interpretations - often depends on tools, experiences, or forms of awareness that extend beyond the physical senses.

When perception is limited, conception is limited. When perception is expanded, conception expands. And when perception is impossible, conception becomes impossible. This interplay reveals a profound truth: our understanding of existence is shaped not by what exists, but by what we are capable of perceiving. The unseen does not cease to exist simply because it is unseen; it remains part of the fabric of reality, waiting for the appropriate means of detection or comprehension.

The Ethereal World

As explained above, existence includes dimensions beyond our physical environment. This physical environment - Earth, which we currently inhabit - is part of a larger environment collectively known as the Gross Material World. The Gross Material World, in turn, is part of an even broader environment referred to as the Material World, Material Creation, or the World of Matter.

Material Creation consists of two fundamental divisions: the Gross Material World and the Ethereal World. The Ethereal World cannot be perceived through the five senses we use to navigate our physical surroundings. This limitation exists because the consistencies, or densities, of these environments differ.

For example, a person can use their physical hand to catch a football because both the hand and the football are solid. However, one cannot use a physical hand to “catch” air because air is a gas and offers no grip. Their differing densities make such interaction impossible unless one uses a tool capable of detecting those differences in density or consistency. In the same way, the differing consistencies or densities between the Ethereal World and the Gross Material World justify their categorisation as separate environments. Yet, in reality, they remain aspects of one unified creation.

How can we know that the Ethereal World and the Gross Material World form one unified creation? To explore this question, let us turn to the book In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message by Abd-Ru-Shin which states: "From its very inception the Material Creation was bound to the unalterable Laws of evolution and dissolution; for what we call the Laws of Nature are the Creative Will of God, which in its activity is continually forming and dissolving worlds. This Creative Will is uniform in all Creation, to which the Ethereal World and the Gross Material World belong as one."

From the above statement in The Grail Message, we can deduce that the Ethereal and Gross Material Worlds are fundamentally one. The visible and invisible worlds form a single whole, but they appear different - or even non‑existent - because of their varying consistencies. The five senses, which allow us to perceive the visible world, are not the same tools or materials required to perceive or function in the invisible world.

Every activity in Creation involves an exchange, transfer, or transformation of energy from one form to another. This includes human activity, encompassing all our thoughts, words, and deeds. A physical action manifests immediately in the physical world, whereas a non‑physical action first manifests in a non‑physical environment before materialising or transforming into the physical world.

Our thoughts are an example of a non‑physical action that initially manifests in a non‑physical environment before materialising or transforming into the physical world. This was demonstrated in well‑documented experiments on telepathy conducted by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, described in two of his books: The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of the Human Mind and Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals. One of these books recounts the story of a dog named Jaytee, who knew when his owner was coming home. The other documents the case of a parrot named N’kisi, who read his owner’s mind. These accounts reveal that our thoughts can be accessed outside the brain - and that these animals demonstrated this ability in controlled experiments.

The explanation for this is given in The Grail Message, where it is stated that the volition, wishes, or will of all humans is first formed ethereally before it manifests in the physical world. Our emotions are also products of our volition. This volition forms in an ethereal manner, and we can sense it because we possess an ethereal substance or ethereal body within us. We are always forming ethereally, and many of us are oblivious to this fact. The more we continue to nourish or entertain a volition, wish, or desire, the more it is reinforced by homogenous centres in the Ethereal World. These centres strengthen the wishes we carry within us for as long as we continue to entertain them. When we stop feeding or nourishing them, we sever the connection to these homogenous centres located in the Ethereal World.

An effective analogy for the Ethereal World is a social media platform. Social media systems are built around sophisticated recommendation algorithms designed to maximise your engagement and keep you immersed for as long as possible. When you watch a single cat video, you generate a behavioural signal - a data point that the system interprets as a preference. That one action initiates a feedback loop: the algorithm infers that “cats” are a high‑interest topic for your unique profile and begins feeding you more of the same.

The mechanism is simple but powerful. Every tap, pause, like, or share becomes part of an ever‑evolving dataset that defines what the system believes you want. The more you engage with a particular type of content, the more the platform reinforces that preference by presenting similar material. Over time, your feed becomes a mirror reflecting your desires, curiosities, and impulses back at you.

The Ethereal World operates on a similar principle. It responds to the energetic “signals” you emit - your actions, desires, emotional states, and inner fixations - and amplifies them. Just as a social media algorithm continuously serves you content that aligns with your demonstrated interests, the Ethereal World continually presents experiences, opportunities, and patterns that resonate with what you seek or enjoy. It is a feedback loop: desire becomes attraction, attraction becomes reinforcement.

However, this relationship is not static. The moment your desires shift, the connection to what once captivated you begins to dissolve. When you no longer feed the algorithm with engagement, it stops prioritising that content. Likewise, when your inner world no longer vibrates with the same longing or fascination, the Ethereal World gradually withdraws the experiences that once echoed those desires. Eventually, the energetic link fades entirely, making space for new patterns to emerge.

In both systems - digital and ethereal - you are not a passive recipient. You are an active participant shaping the reality that is reflected back to you. The world you experience is, in many ways, a personalised feed generated by the signals you continuously emit.

Indication of Continuity

Revelation 14:13 contains a striking declaration: “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord… that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” This verse suggests that human beings are not severed from the consequences or essence of their actions at death. Instead, what they have done - whether outwardly through physical deeds or inwardly through thoughts, intentions, or volitions - accompanies them beyond the boundary of earthly life. To understand how this is possible, it is necessary to understand what “work” truly is.

Work may be defined as the application of effort toward a purpose. This effort may be physical, expressed through tangible actions such as construction, landscaping, or transportation, or non‑physical, expressed through intangible actions such as thought, emotion, impulse, decision, attitude, or intention. Because work arises from the inner life of a person - the spirit - it is not merely an external event. It is an extension of the human being himself. Every deed, whether performed with the hands or conceived in the mind, originates in the inner core of the person. For this reason, work cannot be separated from the one who performs it. It is bound to him, whether he is aware of it or not.

If work can be tangible or intangible, physical or non‑physical, then it follows that work is capable of attaching itself to the human being regardless of whether he is in a physical body or has passed into a non‑physical state. Death does not dissolve the connection between the person and the effects of his actions, because the origin of those actions lies in the human spirit, not the body. The body may fall away, but the human spirit continues, and it carries with it everything it has formed, initiated, or set into motion.

Every human action, whether consciously intended or unconsciously produced, generates consequences. These consequences may unfold immediately or ripple outward over time. A person may be fully aware of the work he has done, or he may be oblivious to the influence he has exerted. He may proudly claim authorship of certain deeds, or he may deny responsibility for others. Yet none of this changes the fact that every action, every thought, and every intention creates a thread of connection between the doer and the effect. These threads are not merely symbolic; they are real in the spiritual sense, which is why they are often called “threads of fate,” for they actually determine our fate. They bind the human spirit to the results of its own volition.

These threads persist until the cycle they initiated has completed itself. This is the operation of the Law of Reciprocal Action, the principle that whatever a person sends out must eventually return to him. Nothing that proceeds from an individual - whether thought, word, or deed - vanishes into emptiness. It continues to exist, gathering strength, shaping consequences, and moving along the path set in motion by the person who originated it. What is sent out by the individual returns multiplied, just as a seed planted in the soil draws nourishment, grows, and eventually produces not a single fruit but many. A single impulse, a single intention, a single action becomes the seed of a much larger harvest.

In the same way that a seed contains within itself the potential for an entire tree, every human action contains within itself the potential for a chain of effects that far exceed the original act. The soil does not merely return the seed unchanged; it transforms it, expands it, and brings forth a multiplied result. Likewise, the ethereal environment in which human actions unfold does not return them in their original form. It returns them enlarged, intensified, and fully developed, so that the individual may encounter the complete reality of what he has set in motion.

This multiplication is the natural unfolding of the Law of Reciprocal Action. The threads that connect a person to his actions continue to grow and develop until they reach their full expression. Only then can they return to the originator, completing the cycle and allowing the thread to dissolve. Until that moment, the thread remains active, binding the human spirit to the consequences of its own volition. This is why the return is always greater than the initial act; the Ethereal World, like fertile soil, brings every volition to maturity before it is handed back to the one who sowed it.

The cycle may close during the person’s earthly life, or it may continue after he has laid aside his physical body and entered the ethereal realm. If necessary, the cycle may even extend into another earth‑life, where the human spirit encounters the consequences of actions previously set in motion. In every case, the work follows the person because he remains spiritually connected to what he has formed ethereally through his volition.

This is the meaning of the biblical statement that “their works do follow them.” Human beings do not escape their deeds at death. They carry them. They meet them again. Their works accompany them because their works are part of them - extensions of their will, expressions of their nature, and seeds whose fruits they must one day encounter. The works remain, and the spirit continues its journey with these threads attached, until every thread has fulfilled its purpose and every cycle has reached completion.

The Law of Reciprocal Action — Fate or Karma

The human spirit enters physical existence already woven with threads of fate that accompany him or her across every stage of being. These threads are the accumulated consequences of choices and decisions made throughout the spirit’s long journey, not merely within a single lifetime but across many incarnations. Through these choices, the human spirit shapes both its present circumstances and the future paths it will eventually walk. Each thread emanates from the spirit itself, stretching outward into the Ethereal World, where it encounters and intertwines with similar formations created by other individuals whose actions, desires, and decisions have also taken ethereal form. In this realm, these collective formations strengthen one another through the power of homogeneity, growing more potent as like attracts like. What has been formed ethereally does not remain inert; it continuously reacts upon its originators, influencing their inner life, their outer experiences, and the conditions into which they are born.

These threads of fate arise from the Law of Reciprocity, the principle that every action generates a corresponding effect that must eventually return to its source. Through this law, the threads determine the environment, circumstances, time, race, and family into which each human spirit enters physical existence. Nothing is random; each spirit is born into precisely the situation that corresponds to the nature of the threads currently attached to it. These threads accompany the spirit throughout its earthly life, exerting influence and guiding experiences that are necessary for growth, development, and eventual resolution.

Each thread must complete its cycle before it can detach, fall away, or dissolve. This completion is what is traditionally understood as atonement or redemption. It is not a punishment but a process of harmonization, a balancing of what has been set into motion. The human spirit, therefore, finds itself placed in circumstances that are uniquely suited to the threads it carries. These circumstances provide the exact conditions required for the spirit to confront, understand, and ultimately transform the consequences of its past deeds. Through this process, the human spirit redeems itself through conscious engagement with the lessons embedded within its fate.

Thus, every life is a purposeful unfolding of threads that originate in the deepest core of the human spirit. As these threads complete their cycles, the spirit becomes freer, clearer, and more capable of shaping its destiny with greater wisdom. In this way, the journey through multiple lifetimes becomes a continuous path of development, purification, and self‑realization, guided by the very threads the spirit has spun - and continues to spin - through its own volition.

The Intricacies of Birth

Inasmuch as the human spirit embodies its threads of fate and seeks opportunities for atonement and redemption, the conditions surrounding its incarnation must be precisely aligned with those threads. The environment into which the spirit will descend, the people who inhabit that environment, the moment in history, the unfolding of present events, and even the latent outcomes of future developments must all resonate with the particular threads of fate the human spirit carries. Only when this intricate harmony is achieved can incarnation become possible. When these conditions are present or imminent, the prospective parents - through the natural affinity of their own spiritual nature - attract a human spirit in the Ethereal World who is ripe for incarnation. This human spirit or soul, brings with it all of its threads of fate, and these threads begin to exert their reciprocal influence not only upon the child-to-be but also upon the parents, their immediate surroundings, and the broader society into which the child will be born.

The arrival of the child initiates a multitude of opportunities for personal experience through the Law of Reciprocal Action. These experiences are not isolated; they ripple outward, enabling the child, the parents, and the wider community to arrive at certain recognitions that further their development. Every individual linked to the child, whether closely or distantly, becomes part of a network of reciprocal effects. Through these interactions, cycles of fate - threads woven long before - are brought to completion, dissolved, or transformed. In this way, birth becomes a catalyst for growth, understanding, and the closing of karmic or fateful cycles that have awaited resolution.

Birth itself is the final stage of a triadic process involving procreation, incarnation, and emergence into physical existence. Procreation refers to the successful union of gametes, the biological foundation upon which physical life can be built. Incarnation is the moment when the soul, dwelling in the Ethereal World, enters the womb of the expectant mother, binding itself to the developing physical form. Birth marks the point at which the incarnated soul, having taken residence within the womb, exits into the material world and begins its earthly journey. Although biological processes initiate and sustain the physical aspect of this journey, two fundamental Laws of Nature play a decisive role in the incarnation of a soul: the Law of Reciprocal Action - also known as the Law of Reciprocity, the Law of Sowing and Reaping, fate, or karma - and the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, also called the Law of Homogeneity or the Law of Affinity.

These laws ensure that every incarnation is just, purposeful, and precisely aligned with the spiritual nature of the individual entering physical existence. Through the Law of Reciprocal Action, the consequences of past deeds return to the spirit in forms that allow for recognition, correction, and growth. Through the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, the spirit is drawn to circumstances, environments, and individuals whose inner qualities resonate with its own. Together, these laws weave the conditions necessary for the spirit to continue its development, confront unresolved threads of fate, and move toward redemption and clarity.

Thus, incarnation is not a random event but a meticulously ordered convergence of past, present, and future events. The human spirit descends into exactly the life that corresponds to its inner state, carrying with it the threads it has spun across many lifetimes. Through the experiences that follow, these threads are gradually resolved, and the spirit moves closer to the fulfillment of its purpose - awakening, purification, and the eventual liberation from the burdens it once wove for itself.

Spiritual Inheritance

It is assumed among certain schools of thought that children inherit particular qualities from their parents or other members of their families. This conclusion arises from physical observation, where only external features and behaviours are considered. Yet a deeper understanding of the true nature of each individual human spirit reveals that this assumption does not hold. A human spirit can only give what it genuinely possesses; and who among us can confidently claim ownership of a specific trait, skill, or characteristic that cannot also be found elsewhere in countless other individuals? No spirit can claim exclusive possession of any quality, for such qualities are not inherited but formed through the choices each spirit has made throughout its long existence.

The reason certain physical or behavioural attributes appear to be inherited is that human spirits who display similar external qualities have made similar choices across their many lifetimes. These choices shape the spirit internally, and the internal nature eventually manifests outwardly. Because like attracts like, spirits with similar inner tendencies repeatedly find themselves incarnating into similar families, groups, ethnicities, races, or environments. The nature of our thoughts and the actions that follow from them shape us continuously. We are forged by how we perceive and interact with the world, and this inner formation eventually expresses itself externally in ways that may resemble what is seen in those around us.

Consider, for example, a parent who possesses a strong desire to read, remain informed, and improve himself or herself. When such a parent is expecting a child, the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species comes into effect. Only when two beings share similar inner qualities can they be drawn together, just as two birds of the same feather flock together. The child is attracted to the expectant mother because the child already carries those same proclivities within its spirit. When the child is born, these proclivities begin to reveal themselves in one form or another, appearing similar to the tendencies already present within the family. It is not that the child inherited these qualities biologically, but rather that the child’s spirit was drawn to a family whose inner nature resonates with its own.

Thus, what appears to be hereditary transmission is, in truth, the result of spiritual affinity and the long‑standing choices made by the human spirit. Families, communities, and environments become gathering points for spirits whose inner qualities harmonize. The external similarities we observe are reflections of deeper spiritual correspondences, shaped over many lifetimes and drawn together through immutable laws that govern the unfolding of human existence.

No Recollection of Past Lives

Being unable to recall our past lives is ultimately to our benefit, and it stands as an act of Divine Love and Justice granted to humanity by our Creator. A veil is placed before the eyes of every human being at the moment of incarnation, preventing access to former earthly existences. This veil is not a limitation but a protection. If we were able to recall our past lives in full detail, our present life would lose much of its meaning and urgency. To benefit from our current physical existence, we must be fully immersed in our daily activities, experiences, and challenges. These experiences are the only true possessions of the human spirit, and they accelerate its maturity. Without the veil, we would be tempted to stand aside as observers rather than participants, constantly comparing our present circumstances with memories of former lives. Such detachment would make our earthly existence futile and lead to retrogression, whereas the purpose of incarnation or reincarnation is progression.

The ability to weigh, decide, and act - qualities that build independence and self‑consciousness - would be weakened if we could survey our previous lives at will. The goal of our existence is to become strong, independent, and self‑aware, and these abilities arise only through the experiences gained from the decisions we make in our daily lives. The veil ensures that each life is lived freshly, with full engagement, allowing the spirit to develop through authentic encounters rather than relying on past knowledge.

An example illustrates the importance of this veil. Imagine a child placed in the custody of a family who acts as guardians. Instead of receiving love and care, the child is treated like a servant. This maltreatment continues until circumstances force the paths of the child and the guardians to diverge. In time, all parties are offered a new opportunity to reincarnate. The child returns to physical existence as the offspring of the very couple who mistreated him or her in the previous life. Through this new arrangement, the couple is given a chance to redeem or atone for their wrongdoing by showing genuine love to the child who is now their own. Without the veil, the couple would likely refuse the birth of this child or repeat the same mistreatment. With the veil in place, the child appears innocent and new, and the couple is unaware of the karmic bond that has drawn them together. The child often brings with them a mighty karma and the opportunity to offset, atone, or redeem this karma through lived experience.

Thus, the inability to recall previous lives is not an oversight but a gift. It grants us the opportunity to further our development, cast off certain threads of fate, and close cycles that have long awaited resolution. The veil ensures that each incarnation begins with a sense of freshness and possibility, allowing the human spirit to engage fully with the lessons of the present life.

The Entry of the Soul

As soon as a mother conceives, the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species comes into operation. The expectant mother becomes a living magnet, drawing toward herself the souls in the Ethereal World who are awaiting an opportunity to incarnate into the physical realm. The wishes, desires, and inner tendencies of these souls align with the wishes, desires, and inner tendencies of the expectant mother and of those who frequently surround her. The expectant mother functions like a lighthouse, sending out signals into the Ethereal World that indicate an opening for incarnation. If the people around her possess stronger attraction power - through the intensity of their desires, thoughts, or emotional states - than she herself does, then these individuals can influence the nature of the soul that will ultimately incarnate in her womb.

This dynamic explains why, in certain cultures, a woman who is confirmed to be expecting a child is shielded from the public and kept in strict isolation, with access limited only to her closest family members. The purpose of such practices is not just physical protection but spiritual safeguarding, even though they are often dismissed by some people as unreasonable. Allowing anyone and everyone to be near an expectant mother introduces a multitude of influences, each carrying its own implications - implications that many people are completely unaware of. This can give rise to situations in which a child is born whose characteristics and inner nature differ markedly from those of the parents, siblings, or immediate family. Such children are often referred to as the “black sheep,” not because they are inherently flawed, but because their contrasting qualities reveal that the soul attracted during pregnancy resonated more strongly with someone other than the parents or immediate family.

The actual moment of incarnation - the entry of the soul into the formed body - occurs around the middle of pregnancy, approximately four and a half months after conception. This timing is not arbitrary. It is at this stage that the developing body in the womb reaches the level of maturity necessary to absorb and house the soul waiting in the beyond. While the physical body is forming, the expectant mother simultaneously experiences a deepening bond with the unborn child. This bond is not just emotional; it is a spiritual preparation for the arrival of a soul that has been waiting in the ethereal realm.

When the forming body has reached the required maturity, the soul is drawn into it and becomes united with the physical vessel. The entry of the soul is typically marked by the first movement of the child, commonly known as quickening. At this moment, the expectant mother becomes aware of the presence of another human spirit within her. She senses not only physical movement but a shift in her emotions. The arrival of the soul often uplifts or oppresses her inner feelings, depending on the nature of the soul that has entered. Her mood becomes attuned to the essence of this new guest, reflecting the spiritual quality of the being now dwelling within her.

This profound process reveals the intricate interplay between the physical and ethereal realms. Conception initiates a chain of spiritual attraction; the developing body prepares itself as a vessel; the mother’s inner life becomes a beacon; and the soul, guided by fate and homogeneity, descends into the womb. The mother’s emotional shifts, the timing of quickening, and the eventual nature of the child all testify to the intricate Laws of Nature governing birth.

The Role of The Blood or "The Bridge"

The major factors that determine birth are the Law of Reciprocal Action - also known as Fate or Karma - and the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species. The Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species stipulates that only beings whose inner nature is identical can attract one another. The “inner nature” referenced here is the nature of the soul, for the human spirit is embedded within the soul and governs the physical body through it. The puzzle, then, is how attraction can be established between the physical body of the expectant mother and the non‑physical body of the soul awaiting incarnation. The bridge between these two realms is formed through the radiation emitted by the composition of the blood.

Every composition of blood emits a distinct radiation, and it is through this unique radiation that attraction between the expectant mother and the soul in the Ethereal World is established. The souls waiting to incarnate must possess a volition - a spiritual will - that radiates in exactly the same manner as the radiation emanating from the mother’s blood. Each blood composition has its own unique signature, and this signature attracts only those souls whose inner nature resonates with it. The radiation of the blood thus forms the bridge between the physical and non‑physical worlds, because it possesses a finer consistency that corresponds to the realm of Medium Gross Matter, the realm in which attraction takes place.

The human spirit has a different consistency from the physical body on Earth. For the spirit to control the physical body, the radiation of the blood serves as the intermediary. The volition of the human spirit - its will - forms ethereally as radiation. The radiation from the expectant mother’s blood composition becomes the connecting link between two beings who exist in different consistencies or realms. This connection is established through the prototype body forming in Medium Gross Matter, often referred to as the astral body. Medium Gross Matter is likewise referred to as the astral plane. The astral body precedes the physical body forming in the expectant mother’s womb. Without the formation of the astral body, the physical body cannot develop, for the astral body provides the template that the physical body follows.

This is how the process unfolds: the volition of the expectant mother radiates through the composition of her blood, which possesses the consistency of Medium Gross Matter. Meanwhile, the volition of the human spirit in the beyond radiates its wishes through the astral body, which also has the consistency of Medium Gross Matter. The two radiations meet, resonate, and form a bridge. The human spirit forms the blood and uses it as a gateway to access the physical world. Without blood, the human spirit cannot anchor itself to the physical body.

This truth is demonstrated at the midpoint of pregnancy, around four and a half months, when the baby’s blood begins to circulate. Before this moment, what exists in the womb is not yet the blood of the prospective human spirit. Only when the forming body reaches the required maturity and the prospective soul is absorbed by the body in the womb does its blood begin to circulate. Another example of this principle is seen in accidents involving severe blood loss. If the loss cannot be remedied, the human spirit separates from the physical body. Similarly, when a patient is mistakenly given the wrong blood type during a transfusion, the body rejects the foreign blood and reacts visibly. This rejection is not merely biological; it reflects the incompatibility of radiations, the disruption of the bridge that allows the human spirit to remain connected to the physical body.

Thus, the composition of the blood is far more than a biological substance. It is the spiritual bridge between worlds, the signature that determines which soul will incarnate, and the medium through which the human spirit anchors itself to earthly existence. Through the interplay of the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species and the Law of Reciprocal Action, these Natural Laws governing incarnation operate with precision, ensuring that every birth aligns with the inner nature of the soul and the karmic threads it carries.

The Role of Medium Gross Matter or Astral Plane

The soul waiting for an opportunity to incarnate cannot take possession of the physical body directly because the two belong to entirely different consistencies. The soul is non‑physical, whereas the earthly body is physical. For the soul to gain access to and ultimately animate the physical body, it requires an intermediary - an implement or bridge - that can connect these two distinct realms. This bridge is formed in Medium Gross Matter, also known as the astral plane. Within this plane, a prototype of the physical body is created, and this prototype always precedes the formation of the physical body in the expectant mother’s womb. Without this astral prototype, the physical body cannot develop, for the astral body provides the essential template upon which the physical form is built.

The astral body, composed of Medium Gross Matter, is shaped not only by the volition of the soul awaiting incarnation but also by the threads of fate attached to the earthly expectant parents. These threads influence the formation of the astral body, determining the conditions and characteristics that will later manifest in the physical body. The astral body is connected to the developing physical body through radiation, yet it is not dependent on the physical body for its existence. This radiation arises from the composition of the expectant mother’s blood, which emits a unique identifier - a signature - similar to the soul's radiation upon the astral body in the beyond. Through this similarity of radiation, a bridge is formed between the soul and the forming physical body.

The astral body, however, is dependent on the soul, not on the physical body. Whatever the soul experiences is felt by the astral body, and this influence then trickles down to the physical body. The experiences of earthly life and the changes they imprint upon the physical body touch the astral body only lightly, exerting minimal influence upon its nature. This hierarchy explains why the physical body depends more on the astral body, while the astral body depends entirely on the activity of the soul. The soul is the origin; the astral body is the intermediary; the physical body is the final expression.

This relationship also sheds light on the phenomenon of phantom pain. When a physical limb is lost, the physical body no longer contains that part, yet the astral body remains intact in Medium Gross Matter. Because the astral body continues to respond to the activity of the soul, the physical body - still connected through radiation - registers the sensation as pain in the missing limb. The pain is not in the physical flesh but in the astral counterpart, which remains whole and responsive.

The human spirit, which is the core or ego, is telescoped through several layers: the soul, the ethereal body, and the astral body, all the way down to the physical body. One may picture a collapsible telescope, with each inner section nested within the next. This is precisely how the human spirit connects to the physical body - through a series of intermediaries, each belonging to a different consistency or realm. The spirit radiates through the soul; the soul radiates through the ethereal body; the ethereal body radiates through the astral body; and the astral body radiates into the physical body. Only through this chain of connection can the human spirit act within the physical world.

Thus, incarnation is not a simple descent but a carefully orchestrated process involving multiple layers of matter, radiation, and attraction. The astral body forms the essential bridge, shaped by the soul’s volition and the parents’ threads of fate. The expectant mother’s blood composition forms the bridge through which the soul anchors itself to the developing physical body via the astral body. Through these interactions, the human spirit gains access to earthly existence, enabling it to continue its development, confront its karma, and weave new threads of fate.

Conclusion

Just as a child cannot grasp the full magnitude of the sacrifices a parent makes for their well‑being, so too do many of us stand within Creation unaware of the profound intricacies that sustain our existence. We often imitate the behaviours and customs of those around us simply because they are endorsed by the wider society, without truly understanding the deeper purpose or the spiritual implications behind such actions.

When someone declares that they “never asked to be born,” or insists that “children do not ask to be born,” it reveals a significant gap in their understanding of the Primordial Laws of Creation - the very Laws from which we ourselves have emerged, and which govern our development and the unfolding of our fate in accordance with our own volition. These Laws, also known as the Laws of Nature, operate with unwavering consistency, guiding the journey of every human spirit.

"Therefore man should no longer grumble about injustice at birth, but gratefully look up to the Creator, Who only grants new mercies with every single birth!" — In The Light of Truth: The Grail Message by Abd-Ru-Shin

To give birth is not just a biological event; it is the opening of a new opportunity for a human spirit to continue its spiritual development and advance along its individual path. It is not an act meant to secure future insurance, or a backup plan for earthly concerns. Rather, it is a sacred participation in the ongoing evolution of another human spirit.

A deeper understanding of the magnitude of this act reveals procreation in an entirely new light - in the Light of Truth, where the responsibility, and spiritual significance of bringing forth life become unmistakably clear.

This article is based on the knowledge contained in the spiritual work entitled: 'In The Light of Truth: The Grail Message' by Abd-Ru-Shin.

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