"Like Attracts Like"

(Excerpt from "From India to the Truth")

The popular saying "birds of a feather flock together" reflects the working of yet another Law of Creation - the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species!

This Law stipulates that similar species will always attract one another, whereas dissimilar species will repel each other. It is because of this Law that we can inwardly connect only to those in whom we find similar attributes. But there is always an automatic separation among those who cannot find any mutual homogeneity. We find the manifestations of this Law in every sphere of society where groups of people form with similar goals, aspirations and ambitions. From the lowest to the highest classes, this Law works in a separating or sifting manner and brings into being the great diversity in our human race!

Thus smokers always tend to associate with smokers, gamblers with gamblers, debauchers with debauchers and so on! But devout people with high and noble goals also find one another, and through their like-mindedness they are able to achieve so much that is good and uplifting for our race. This Law helps to separate every species according to their inner qualities. For instance, we have the fundamental divisions of the human, animal and plant species and among these, many further classifications.

These classifications can only take place through the inner nature of the species concerned. Since the human being possesses a spirit-core and the animal possesses an animistic core, they manifest as two different species, which separate even outwardly in Nature, because they cannot find an inner connection with each other. We should note in passing that plants and other stationary objects do not have an inner motivating core of their own, which is able to animate them like the human and animal species.

This Law also plays a very important role at the period of incarnation and is thereby very closely linked to the Law of Karma. Even karma itself is subject to classification by this Law and can therefore be regarded as a "species". Hence there is both luminous and dark karma, i.e. good and bad karma, although in reality, all karma that strikes us, whether joyful or sorrowful, is good, because it serves to refine us and helps us recognise our own personal faults, and thereby we can improve ourselves in the desire for spiritual self-consciousness. Human spirits with "good karma" can only generally incarnate among families which have already formed good karma for themselves. The same is true for spirits with a darker karma. It works as an automatic "ethereal" process in the world of the beyond.

In this way, the prospective parents are able to influence the attraction of the human spirit during pregnancy so that only those who are similar in nature to them will be attracted. In other words, the mutual homogeneity of the karma and inner spiritual nature of both the parents and the incarnating spirit form the basis of the attraction-process, which determines the kind of spirit that may enter a certain family.

This gives rise to the impression of "spiritual heredity", where children are assumed to be inheriting the karmaic fruits of their parents' deeds. But this only appears to be so; in reality, it is only the outworking of the perfect Laws of Karma and of the Attraction of Homogeneous Species.

There are certainly exceptions to this process but, again, these exceptions do not go beyond the boundaries of these Laws. Such exceptional cases - where a spirit bears a completely different nature to that of its parents - occur when the parents allow a third person to influence the attraction of the spirit during incarnation. If this person is constantly in the vicinity of the prospective mother, it may well happen that a spirit inwardly similar to this third person incarnates, instead of one similar to the parents. This is why sometimes a "black sheep" does manage to enter an otherwise "basically good" household. But if a prospective mother guards herself during pregnancy, there need not be any fear of this taking place! All that she needs to do is to be watchful of her surroundings and to ensure that nothing or no one may approach her in a way that influences the pregnancy.

If we delve closely into the implications of this Law, we will see yet again, the Perfection of the Almighty God in all these happenings, because through this Law much karma could be absolved.

As a simple example, let us consider parents who have committed many wrong deeds in this life or in a previous one. During the mother's pregnancy they would attract a human spirit who has probably done similar things in his own past earth-life. This dark karma may manifest itself in some way during his new incarnation, either as a child, in his formative years or much later, e.g. through an accident, an illness, a handicap etc. But the sorrow resulting from seeing the suffering of their child would already help the parents atone for their own wrong-doings and thus free themselves from the sins of their past. As they care for their child and experience the emotional suffering themselves, the pain would gradually shake them out of their own former karmaic burdens to help them atone for their wrong-doings. But all this takes place without they themselves necessarily having to experience the actual physical suffering. If they come to a deeper understanding of the origins of such karma, they can even help the child to come to a recognition about its own faults (from the past life) so that it can free itself from its own karma. This is then an immense blessing for all concerned!

This is but one example of how the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species works in perfect harmony with the Law of Karma for the benefit of mankind. Naturally, we cannot rigidly restrict ourselves to this and other similar examples, because there are many "permutations and combinations" of the different threads of fate for each individual, and these manifest differently in this world. Therefore this should be regarded as just an example. In our own lives we will have quite naturally experienced other kinds of combinations of such "threads of fate".

In studying the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, we will recognise many other ramifications as well, especially the fundamental difference between the human and the animal species mentioned earlier. The human spirit originates in the Spiritual Part of Creation, while the animal originates in the Animistic Part of Creation. These two species are completely different from one another and cannot strongly attract each other for the purpose of incarnation. It is therefore worth considering the question of transmigration from the point of view of the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species.

Because of the lack of homogeneity, it is absolutely impossible for a human being to be born in his next life as an animal. Such a belief goes against the Divine Laws, because there is nothing homogeneous in both the animal core and the spirit of man that would help to form a connection that permits an incarnation to take place. The human spirit in the beyond can only be attracted to human beings on earth, whose physical bodies with their genetic makeup and personal circumstances are specially configured to allow only a human spirit to return to the earth.

The human spirit needs a special kind of physical body that can help its own spiritual qualities unfold in the World of Matter. The requirements for this include a special genetic structure found only in human bodies, the earthly intellect and the thinking faculties, the ability of the body to speak and thereby communicate in a manner that can help it on its spiritual path and last but not least, certain kinds of blood-radiations that are unique to the human species incarnated on earth. The composition of the blood influences its radiation and therefore also the kind of human spirit incarnated in the process. The spiritual significance of the blood has hitherto been completely overlooked by science, but since the Grail Message already gives complete and comprehensive explanations about this process, we shall not go into any further details here. The animal race, in its present state of evolution, cannot provide the human configuration which is fundamental for a true spiritual incarnation.

Compare this to the process of amalgamation between two metals. This can only take place when the ambient conditions of temperature and pressure are optimal. If any one of these conditions changes, albeit slightly, then an alloying becomes impossible and the two metals must separate. This process, well-known to every student of chemistry, is but a reflection of the Eternal Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species. Only under the right mutually homogeneous conditions can there be a perfect attraction and bonding.

As with amalgamation, the human spirit is only able to unite with the kind of physical body that can best offer it the opportunity to work in Creation. The various animal species on earth do not offer the human spirit the ability to do this. Man's task in Creation is much more advanced than that of the animal! This does not mean that he is valued more than the animal, for all are of equal worth before the Almighty. This only means that man is able to achieve far more than the animal by virtue of the abilities of his inner being.

Hence, regarding the different cores of the human being and the animal, the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species then becomes the Law of Repulsion of Heterogeneous Species that prevents transmigration!

It is unfortunate that ancient Indian philosophy, with all its wise teachings of the Law of Karma, has - in certain quarters at least - allowed itself to be corrupted by the doctrine of transmigration. Transmigration cannot take place because the bridge between the two fundamentally different kinds of species is simply lacking. The human spirit cannot return as a frog in one life or as a chimpanzee in the next!

We, who are seeking the Truth, must think deeply about this process and free ourselves from all wrong teachings that denigrate the original pure Knowledge given to us by the Light. Only then can we continuously experience the Perfection of God operating in Creation!