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THOUGHT-FORMS
teachings, a recapitulation of the main facts will not be
out of place.
Man, the Thinker, is clothed in a body composed of
innumerable combinations of the subtle matter of the
mental plane, this body being more or less refined in
its constituents and organised more or less fully for its
functions, according to the stage of intellectual develop-
ment at which the man himself has arrived. The mental
body is an object of great beauty, the delicacy and rapid
motion of its particles giving it an aspect of living
iridescent light, and this beauty becomes an extraordin-
arily radiant and entrancing loveliness as the intellect
becomes more highly evolved and is employed chiefly on
pure and sublime topics. Every thought gives rise to a
set of correlated vibrations in the matter of this body,
accompanied with a marvellous play of colour, like that
in the spray of a waterfall as the sunlight strikes it, raised
to the ntli degree of colour and vivid delicacy. The body
under this impulse throws off a vibrating portion of itself,
shaped by the nature of the vibrations—as figures are
made by sand on a disk vibrating to a musical note—and
this gathers from the surrounding atmosphere matter like
itself in fineness from the elemental essence of the mental
world. We have then a thought-form pure and simple,
and it is a living entity of intense activity animated by
the one idea that generated it. If made of the finer
kinds of matter, it will be of great power and energy, and
may be used as a most potent agent when directed by a
strong and steady will. Into the details of such use we
will enter later.
When the man's energy flows outwards towards
external objects of desire, or is occupied in passional and
THOUGHT-FORMS
teachings, a recapitulation of the main facts will not be
out of place.
Man, the Thinker, is clothed in a body composed of
innumerable combinations of the subtle matter of the
mental plane, this body being more or less refined in
its constituents and organised more or less fully for its
functions, according to the stage of intellectual develop-
ment at which the man himself has arrived. The mental
body is an object of great beauty, the delicacy and rapid
motion of its particles giving it an aspect of living
iridescent light, and this beauty becomes an extraordin-
arily radiant and entrancing loveliness as the intellect
becomes more highly evolved and is employed chiefly on
pure and sublime topics. Every thought gives rise to a
set of correlated vibrations in the matter of this body,
accompanied with a marvellous play of colour, like that
in the spray of a waterfall as the sunlight strikes it, raised
to the ntli degree of colour and vivid delicacy. The body
under this impulse throws off a vibrating portion of itself,
shaped by the nature of the vibrations—as figures are
made by sand on a disk vibrating to a musical note—and
this gathers from the surrounding atmosphere matter like
itself in fineness from the elemental essence of the mental
world. We have then a thought-form pure and simple,
and it is a living entity of intense activity animated by
the one idea that generated it. If made of the finer
kinds of matter, it will be of great power and energy, and
may be used as a most potent agent when directed by a
strong and steady will. Into the details of such use we
will enter later.
When the man's energy flows outwards towards
external objects of desire, or is occupied in passional and