T D O Y

“The days of our years are three score

years and ten; and if by reason of
strength they be fourscore years, yet is
their strength labor and sorrow; for it is
soon cut off, and we fly away”
P 90 10
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• In this period the foundations of physical health and
strength for the entire incarnation are being laid
down;
• Children should be given every opportunity for
healthful exercise in the open air and sunshine;
• Children subconsciously is making preview of the
years to come;
• Need for parental guidance and care (love, security,
discipline) needed in diminishing degrees as the child
grows.
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• This period marks the growth of the emotional nature ; during
this time the child can be appealed to primarily through its
feelings;
• Education should be concentrated on the emotional rather
than the mental growth;
• This is the period when religious/spiritual beliefs in its most
idealistic concepts of love and devotion will be of great value.
• The love of parents and the example of an ideal home life will
help strengthen and purify the emotional nature of the child;
• Physiological changes accompany sexual maturity towards the
end of this period.
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• The keynote of this period is essentially that of the rapid
growth of the mental faculties;
• Concentration should be on the development of the powers
of analytical thinking and reasoning; the presence of a
strong and balanced emotional nature will be of inestimable
help during this development;
• Development of both the concrete and abstract divisions of
the mind are in this period, including indications of full normal
connection with the soul. If conditions were ideal, the person
would be in full charge of the lower vehicles;
• At the age of 21, or even 18, the growing youth is recognized
as an adult and is then considered to be socially and legally
responsible.
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• Period when buddhi (love) comes into full material
manifestation;
• This is the natural period for marriage; a great esoteric
experience in which the whole nature from spiritual to
material takes part;
• A strong physical body, a balanced emotional nature, as well
as intellectual development and the spiritual union are
necessary for a complete and successful marriage;
• Love, therefore, is called forth into active expression, though
if it competes with the mind and the desires, it will lead into
less ideal directions.
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• This is the period of the will, the will must show forth as self-
confidence;
• To meet the responsibilities of marriage, wealth-producing
activities must be undertaken and the driving power of the
will must assert itself to bring success;
• Faced with economic necessities, the couple may now be
immersed in some business effort while also caring for the
home and children.
• Statistically, the age of great material accomplishment is the
age of 35.
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• At the age 35, the turning point of incarnation is reached, the

path of outgoing is finished and the path of return begins;
• The accomplishments of the past are now tested and
matured, seeds which were planted will now be reaped, raw
materials now fashioned into finished product.
• As each of these periods passes, the real worth of the
individual will be revealed, in either success or failure.
• Success means that forces will be consolidated and carried on
to enrich the succeeding years. Failure brings to old age those
things that sadden said part of incarnation.
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• The period of the will continues.
• Here self-confidence developed in the early years should
blossom into self-control;
• So, the full period of most active participation and deepest
immersion in material affairs is between the ages of twenty-
eight and forty-two;
• Possibly in the later years a person may face the choice
between amassing money for selfish purposes or to be used
in wider fields of need for the helping of others.
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• Comes the period of buddhi again, and with it, the testing of
the marriage ties.
• At this time there should be a great expansion of love nature.
• This should result in a strengthening of the marriage union so
that it blossoms forth into a new and wider feeling of true
companionship.
• Around this time the physical attractions of marriage are
receding, and if the wider states of consciousness are not
realized because the union was of the physical world alone,
then failure is sure and divorce may be the result.
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• Here we observe the maturing and testing of the mind;
• This is the period in which knowledge is distilled into wisdom;
• There is less study, less activity in gathering facts, but more
thinking and pondering over the significance of the facts
already collected;
• This is the period of wise guide and counselor;
• The mind should widen, deepen and become more tranquil,
less disturbed by events and more ready to consider all points
of view, and therefore able to come to wise decisions;
• Failure at this point will result in the kind becoming closed to
all new ideas. Mental progresses as ceased, and the “arm
chair” period has begun.
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• The emotions are tested and tried. Within this period
emotional strength and balance should be gained.
• The maturing of the emotional nature should endow the
individual with a deep sense of compassion for all.
• If this period is not met successfully, problem of old age will
begin to develop and will be observed in many undesirable
emotional expressions: ill temper, lack of consideration for
others, unreasonable demands for attention, and a definite
emotional rigidity that is distinctively unpleasant.
• The voice hardens, the skin wrinkles, the face becomes hard
and the eyes lose their luster, beauty fades and sweetness
gone. Other people lose their faith in God and humanity.
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• Ushers in the testing of physical vitality, the foundations of
which were laid down at the beginning of incarnation.
• At this age the individual may wish to retire from business
activity and cultivate the reflective and meditative life.
• One should now review the years of physical life as the end is
coming near.
• Bringing of the past into the present and a brooding over the
events of the incarnation to extract from them all the value
possible in preparation to enter the next astral world.
• Nature is calling them to make the review, as they get lost
among the corridors of long ago; carried to the extreme, this
condition give rise to a state called “second childhood.”
FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON
ANTAHKARANA
(The Inner Cause)
7 HERMETICS PRINCIPLES
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