La Iniciación · Año V, Nº 45 · January 1946

1DIALOGUES OF THE NINTH SPHERE (Continuation and end). By Wronski I. M. Ant.

2— What doubt can there be?

3Mag.

4— But if death is the end, the absolute end, why do good instead of evil?

5Ant.

6—The question is not easy to answer. Perhaps one might say that the good we do produces satisfaction in us.

7Mag.

8— But why does it produce satisfaction in us?

9Ant.

10— I do not know.

11Mag.

12— Might it perhaps be because that which we sometimes call "the voice of conscience" reproaches us with the injustices we have committed and, on the other hand, fills us with satisfaction for the good actions we have accomplished?

13Ant.

14—I do not know whether the proposition is exact; but at all events it is evident that there is in us something that tells us when we act well and when we act ill.

15Mag.

16—Well then, that something that flutters in us, that warns us of the evil we could have avoided and of the good we have left undone, is what the psychologists call the "Moral Conscience" — and it may in a certain manner also be called the memory of the human species (a memory necessarily subconscious, which surfaces at certain moments into the ordinary, or cognitive, consciousness).

17Ant.

18— It is possible.

19Mag.

20—If it is, it is equally probable that the Moral Conscience also represents something like the memory of the previous lives lived by the soul (that "something" which remains constant while everything changes around it is a particle of that principle which sustains and gives life to our universe, and which has been known by the names: Soul of the World, Planetary Logos, God, etc.).

21Each of these particles possesses an independent existence capable of incarnating distinct personalities, being always identical with itself.

22A personality — that is, a life — is nothing more than a pearl added to the necklace of its multiple existences.

23Sentient or not, cognitive or not (within the psychological acceptation of both terms), the aforesaid particle — properly speaking, the Ego — persists beyond all change; it is indestructible, immortal, though not eternal.

24And the reason by virtue of which you — and, like you, an infinity of men and women — prefer good to evil, virtue to vice, love to hatred and altruism to egoism, lies in that intuition of our true SELF: of the immortal soul that hides in our interior as in a sanctuary, to murmur in our heart the sacrosanct word of divine piety and of our exalted origin.

25All this is condensed in this inscription which, like a potent luminous beacon, bathes the world with its light: I.N.R.I., Igne Natura Renovatur Integra. [Sic: the first letter is printed as a lowercase ell.]

26The mysterious fire, called Agni by the Hindus, is the eternal spirit which, with its heat and energy, renews Nature and, with her, all men and women of goodwill.

27At that precise instant a characteristic note, provoked by some instrument of metal, vibrated powerfully in the ambience. [Sic: the Spanish prints par, for por.]

28Under the hieratic influence of that unwonted vibration, Anteo, who had remained mute until then, seemed to be reborn to a new life.

29The soul of the past grew gigantic within him and, remembering perhaps the old Christian teaching, · 20

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