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Chapter XVII.
MORE PERMANENT CONDITIONS.
We have endeavoured to illustrate the immediate
effect of some of the sudden emotions which
affect the outer vehicles of man, and to explain
that, quickly as they pass, they are not without
permanent results to the soul within. It remains
for us to describe the way in which certain
dispositions or types of character manifest them-
selves, so that it may be seen to what extent
each of these modifies the progress of the man
upon his upward path.
There is one influence, however, which pro-
duces a considerable result in the lives of most
men, which does not exactly belong to either of
these categories. It is often sudden in its advent,
and in most cases it is certainly not lifelong in
its duration; but still it does not fade away so
rapidly as those which we have been considering.
Nevertheless, in the life of such a man as is
imaged in Plates VIII., IX., and X. it is usually
the main event; indeed it is very frequently the
MORE PERMANENT CONDITIONS.
We have endeavoured to illustrate the immediate
effect of some of the sudden emotions which
affect the outer vehicles of man, and to explain
that, quickly as they pass, they are not without
permanent results to the soul within. It remains
for us to describe the way in which certain
dispositions or types of character manifest them-
selves, so that it may be seen to what extent
each of these modifies the progress of the man
upon his upward path.
There is one influence, however, which pro-
duces a considerable result in the lives of most
men, which does not exactly belong to either of
these categories. It is often sudden in its advent,
and in most cases it is certainly not lifelong in
its duration; but still it does not fade away so
rapidly as those which we have been considering.
Nevertheless, in the life of such a man as is
imaged in Plates VIII., IX., and X. it is usually
the main event; indeed it is very frequently the