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period of a few months and repeated correspondingly in the embryonic state, in the growth of a human child So, some thinkers believe that similarly there is some Law of Correspondence obtaining between the spiritual and the physical When the time comes for the soul to take a further definite step upward, she has to pass through a period of gestation and she is rapidly carried through all the stages from the inception to the finale, which she had experienced before It is a travail for the soul It is a process of purification The gross sensual is already burnt up, but its finer counterpart remains still to be dealt with According to the Law of Resistance, action and reaction takes place There is a pulling in opposite directions It is the separating of the wheat and tares.
RUP was thrown into the throes of this trial It was the beginning of the summer, 1938 One evening, as he returned from the garden of his walk, Illness-a Retreat he felt some slight pain in the muscles unto Self of the leg and he suffered from headHe took no notice of such a trifle
ache
In the morning, when he tried to get up, he found that it pained much at the joints when he moved He had fever too
From low fever temperature shot up higher and higher as the day advanced One day, two days The condition was worse. He now and again was losing his temper He could not now move out of
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