A Review Of Erato's Lives: i---viii By C. J. Leadbeater
With his eighth life we come to the close of a minor cycle of soul-evolution. In his earlier life in Chaldea he was thrown into surroundings which made a good life eminently probable for him. Born in the priestly caste, he encountered none but virtuous examples. Virtue was universally expected of him and was made easy for him. To have been sinned seriously would have been difficult; it would have been to fly in the face of all comfortable conventions; it would have needed a determination in the direction of wickedness which our hero happily did not possess.
With his eighth life we come to the close of a minor cycle of soul-evolution. In his earlier life in Chaldea he was thrown into surroundings which made a good life eminently probable for him. Born in the priestly caste, he encountered none but virtuous examples. Virtue was universally expected of him and was made easy for him. To have been sinned seriously would have been difficult; it would have been to fly in the face of all comfortable conventions; it would have needed a determination in the direction of wickedness which our hero happily did not possess.
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