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THE TRUTH
Without material influence they will not be formed. Any kind of pleasurable or painful experience will give rise to a longing (attrahent in the one case and repellent in the other) in the mind. If matter is completely separated from the soul the impulses will be destroyed altogether.
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At death the nervous associations and groupings are destroyed, but the impulses are carried over by the soul into its new life. All impulses, whether general or generalised aspects of particular complexes (e.g., the sense of love for a particular individual), survive death for this reason. The reason why we do not recollect the events of a previous life is due to the lack of the specific external stimulus which is necessary to rouse and call up old impulses that remain dormant in its absence, and to the predominance of other interests which have been formed since the change of scene and surroundings implied in death. The old impulses are doomed to remain in the condition of slumbering fire, and may be extinguished after a time, under the modifying influence of education and experience, unless they are revived, once again, by the chance perception of an actual landmark from the past that used to appeal powerfully to one's mind.
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We thus bring our tendencies and impulses with us from a previous life. They survive death in the form of willing, but not as knowledge. The indivisible soul
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