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It is the character which he has inherited from former earth lives which makes him susceptible to spiritual urges and attracts him to mystical teachings of this kind. If changing events or changed environments, new contacts with living men or with printed books appear to be responsible, this is only because "delayed-action" tendencies were already in existence but still needed such external changes to be able to manifest themselves.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 2 : Its Choice > # 222