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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1173#0014
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THOUGHT-FORMS
are approaching the Cinderella-stage. The fact is that
science has pressed its researches so far, has used such
rare ingenuity in its questionings of nature, has shown
such tireless patience in its investigations, that it is
receiving the reward of those who seek, and forces and
beings of the next higher plane of nature are beginning
to show themselves on the outer edge of the physical
field. " Nature makes no leaps," and as the physicist
nears the confines of his kingdom he finds himself
bewildered by touches and gleams from another realm
which interpenetrates his own. He finds himself com-
pelled to speculate on invisible presences, if only to find
a rational explanation for undoubted physical phenomena,
and insensibly he slips over the boundary, and is, although
he does not yet realise it, contacting the astral plane.
One of the most interesting of the highroads from the
physical to the astral is that of the study of thought.
The Western scientist, commencing in the anatomy and
physiology of the brain, endeavours to make these the
basis for "a sound psychology." He passes then into
the region of dreams, illusions, hallucinations ; and as soon
as he endeavours to elaborate an experimental science
which shall classify and arrange these, he inevitably
plunges into the astral plane. Dr Baraduc of Paris has
nearly crossed the barrier, and is well on the way towards
photographing astro-mental images, to obtaining pictures
of what from the materialistic standpoint would be the
results of vibrations in the grey matter of the brain.
It has long been known to those who have given
attention to the question that impressions were produced
by the reflection of the ultra-violet rays from objects
not visible by the rays of the ordinary spectrum.
12
THOUGHT-FORMS
are approaching the Cinderella-stage. The fact is that
science has pressed its researches so far, has used such
rare ingenuity in its questionings of nature, has shown
such tireless patience in its investigations, that it is
receiving the reward of those who seek, and forces and
beings of the next higher plane of nature are beginning
to show themselves on the outer edge of the physical
field. " Nature makes no leaps," and as the physicist
nears the confines of his kingdom he finds himself
bewildered by touches and gleams from another realm
which interpenetrates his own. He finds himself com-
pelled to speculate on invisible presences, if only to find
a rational explanation for undoubted physical phenomena,
and insensibly he slips over the boundary, and is, although
he does not yet realise it, contacting the astral plane.
One of the most interesting of the highroads from the
physical to the astral is that of the study of thought.
The Western scientist, commencing in the anatomy and
physiology of the brain, endeavours to make these the
basis for "a sound psychology." He passes then into
the region of dreams, illusions, hallucinations ; and as soon
as he endeavours to elaborate an experimental science
which shall classify and arrange these, he inevitably
plunges into the astral plane. Dr Baraduc of Paris has
nearly crossed the barrier, and is well on the way towards
photographing astro-mental images, to obtaining pictures
of what from the materialistic standpoint would be the
results of vibrations in the grey matter of the brain.
It has long been known to those who have given
attention to the question that impressions were produced
by the reflection of the ultra-violet rays from objects
not visible by the rays of the ordinary spectrum.