739. As we have seen, the talent is not something that miraculously springs forth out of "nothing", and neither is it a reality that we can be given at birth. The talent is "knowledge C" or the being's mentality that it has inherited from its own past. That this mentality can be transmitted from one physical, terrestrial life to another regardless of the destruction of the physical organism is very easy to understand and perfectly natural when we know about the eternal structure of the I and its superconsciousness, which is above the physical organism, and we see that the I, by means of its fate element and in the form of the talent kernels, can transfer the habitual functions or its "knowledge C" from one physical organism to the next and can completely shape this organism so that it benefits these innate functions or talents.