Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00233)

>The question I guess is when does the Reincarnating Aego (via the Monad)
>attaches itself to the embryo? Western astrologers usually chart the birth
at
>the moment the child emerges from the womb. Someone once told me that
Eastern
>astrologers chart the birth at conception ( which, to me, would be a more
>difficult thing to do). Interesting questions and I have no answers. Maybe
>someone else has.
>
>Lmhem111


According to Tibetan Buddhism, it is at conception. Actually it makes
a lot of sense. Everything physical is an expression of something higher
or more subtle. The physical body is an expression of the mind and
emotions (mental and astral bodies) and so in order for any physical
expression to occur there must first be a mental-astral counterpart.
So everything I have learned from studying theosophy and occultism
suggests to me that it begins at conception.

Jerry S.