reacting upon the soul-form from the father. This gives a duality to inheritance, but a difference in kind.
The life that flows down from God into this soul-form from the human father is like solar life flowing into the plant organism: it is modified and qualified by the character of the recipient vessel into which it flows. The soul-form from the father planted in the mother reproduces itself under the modifications received from the mother, but it becomes an image or likeness of the father modified by the mother. It is the father that is reproduced, modified by the mother.
Both the life of the human soul and the soul-form itself are actually from God. No human parent creates the soul-form. It is provided by the Creator through the instrumentality of the human father in the human seed, and is a rudimentary reproduction of the father's soul—life. It is, we claim, one of the innumerable facts of life that we know to exist whether we know how to explain it or not. The soul-form is a fact, and we believe it to be as a spiritual entity in the human form, although rudimentary, because it reproduces the human form in its extension into matter.
