Why do I have chicken legs? What are we here for?

In some of my most recent previous lives, perhaps I have been East Indian or North American Indian ... My chicken legs might attest to that. Point is East Indians and Natives have different physical structures and are not quite so Atlantean. Regardless, we all make the rounds. It is silly to hate another group when your grandparents of this life might be reincarnating into that group. That group might be your next life.

"The stationary zodiac, as we know it, represents twelve great orders, creators, powers or forces through space, governed by great intelligences, by and through whom cosmic matter is transformed into systems of worlds and beings, which beings come into existence by the planetary chains, are educated and developed through races as represented by the signs, and who pass on to enjoy the attainment or fulfill a self-appointed duty which their degree of intelligence directs, or to go around the wheel again." The Zodiac , Pecival

"THE object of our existence here, and the work we are to do, could be better understood by looking into the general plan of the evolution of the Ego and its ultimate destiny. The Ego which started from its source (we cannot say when, because Time and Space are applicable to this our plane only) in a state of passive negative purity, has to pass through a series of existences and planes to undergo and exhaust the experiences of those planes. So it has come down through many planes of existences each more gross than the other, until we are on the physical plane, the grossest of all. This is the turning point of the evolutionary course, and from this begins a series of existences on planes each higher in point of spirituality than the preceding one, until the Egos return to the source from which they started, in a state of active perfection rich with the soul experiences gathered during so many lives. This is the course of evolution, and when well understood, we would see that the more we shorten our stay on each plane, exhausting the experiences of that plane in as short a time as we can, the sooner we attain our object (i.e.] merging into the source from which we issued.

.... To exhaust the experiences of this plane is to go individually through every form of existence and the innumerable varieties therein until we have gathered their experiences. Now taking the human kingdom, there are the distinctly marked divisions (i.e.), races. Again, there are sub-races and branch races. Again in each branch race, there are tribal varieties, and in them innumerable individuals. In one individual there are innumerable phases of character. Now, if one were to take an incarnation for every such experience, the number of incarnations on this earth during a round only, would be beyond human calculation. There are seven such rounds on this chain, and this chain is only one of the solar system, and so on ad infinitum. [Page 20]

Universal Brotherhood furthers our end in this way. In this race, at this time, there are the nations — Hindu, European, etc.. It is absolutely necessary that one should incarnate severally in these nations to get hold of the salient characteristics in each.

He cannot get the experiences of the European by being born a. Hindu. But in the same nation there are so many varieties and species, that were one to go on incarnating in each to get hold of the characteristics, it will never end. So Universal Brotherhood or sympathy enables us to put ourselves in the place of others in joy and sorrow, and so experience what is passing in them at that time. This increases our experiences and so decreases the number of incarnations we should otherwise have to undergo. The wider our sympathies are extended, the greater is our sphere of experiences and the less our number of births here, till we are permeated with a feeling of Universal Sympathy, and, as it were, absorbed into the Universal Law of Harmony and Order.
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