Now I am the spiritual offspring of the marriage within my conscious experience of the Past and the Present.
My second birth was no less a birth because there was no distinct incarnation.

Surely it has happened before that one body served more than one spiritual organization.

Nor am I disowning my father and mother of the flesh, for they were also partners in the generation of my second self; copartners with my entire line of ancestors.

They gave me body, so that I have eyes like my father's and hair like my mother's.

The spirit also they gave me, so that I reason like my father and endure like my mother.