122 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

one, it does not contain memories of past lives
or rebirths as it had had no part in them, but
man's ego, in his world of the Intuition does
remember, and sometimes a partial recollection
filters through from the ego into the lower
vehicles. Although man does not usually
remember his past lives in his physical body,
yet he manifests in his physical life the
experiences and lessons that he has gained in
former lives and necessarily shows forth by his
character the qualities that have been builded
into his character and developed in former lives.
If he has built in good qualities, he will possess
them now. If he has let himself drift or been
careless, then that carelessness will show itself
by continued weakness of character. The
qualities good or bad with which he is born are
those which he has built into himself. " What-
soever a man sows that shall he also reap."
Thus this process goes on life after life and age
after age.

This development of the ego is the object of the
whole process of materialisation ; he assumes those
veils of matter precisely because through them he
is able to receive vibrations to which he can respond,
so that his latent faculties may thereby be unfolded.
Though man descends from on high into these lower
worlds, it is only through that descent that a full
cognisance of the higher worlds is developed in
him. Full consciousness in any given world