While comparatively few among the Western races are able to remember more than fragments of their past lives, in India it is quite common for a man well developed spiritually to clearly remember the incidents and details of former incarnations, and the evidence of the awakening of such power causes little more than passing interest among his people.  There is, as we shall see later, a movement toward conscious Metempsychosis, and many of the race are just moving on to that plane.  In India the highly developed individuals grow into a clear recollection of their past lives when they reach the age of puberty, and when their brains are developed sufficiently to grasp the knowledge locked up in the depths of the soul.  In the meantime the individual’s memory of the past is locked away in the recesses of his mind, just as are many facts and incidents of his present life so locked away, to be remembered only when some one mentions the subject, or some circumstance serves to supply the associative link to the apparently forgotten matter.

Regarding the faculty of memory in our present lives, we would quote the following from the pen of Prof.  William Knight, printed in the Fortnightly Review.  He says:  “Memory of the details of the past is absolutely impossible.  The power of the conservative faculty, though relatively great, is extremely limited.  We forget the larger portion of experience soon after we have passed through it, and we should be able to recall the particulars of our past years, filling all the missing links of consciousness since we entered on the present life, before we were in a position to remember our ante-natal experience.  Birth must necessarily be preceded by crossing the river of oblivion, while the capacity for fresh acquisition survives, and the garnered wealth of old experience determines the amount and character of the new.”

Another startling evidence of the proof of Metempsychosis is afforded us in the cases of “infant prodigies,” etc., which defy any other explanation.  Take the cases of the manifestation of musical talent in certain children at an early age, for instance.  Take the case of Mozart who at the age of four was able to not only perform difficult pieces on the piano, but actually composed original works of merit.  Not only did he manifest the highest faculty of sound and note, but also an instinctive ability to compose and arrange music, which ability was superior to that of many men who had devoted years of their life to study and practice.  The laws of harmony—­the science of commingling tones, was to him not the work of years, but a faculty born in him.  There are many similar cases of record.