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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1173#0028
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THOUGHT-FORMS
colour, and the study of its variations and combinations
is an exceedingly interesting one.
This thought-form may not inaptly be compared to a
Leyden jar, the coating of living essence being symbol-
ised by the jar, and the thought energy by the charge
of electricity. If the man's thought or feeling is directly
connected with someone else, the resultant thought-form
moves towards that person and discharges itself upon his
astral and mental bodies. If the man's thought is about
himself, or is based upon a personal feeling, as the vast
majority of thoughts are, it hovers round its creator and
is always ready to react upon him whenever he is for a
moment in a passive condition. For example, a man
who yields himself to thoughts of impurity may forget
all about them while he is engaged in the daily routine
of his business, even though the resultant forms are hang-
ing round him in a heavy cloud, because his attention is
otherwise directed and his astral body is therefore not
impressible by any other rate of vibration than its own.
When, however, the marked vibration slackens and the
man rests after his labours and leaves his mind blank as
regards definite thought, he is very likely to feel the
vibration of impurity stealing insidiously upon him. If
the consciousness of the man be to any extent awakened,
he may perceive this and cry out that he is being tempted
by the devil; yet the truth is that the temptation is from
without only in appearance, since it is nothing but
the natural reaction upon him of his own thought-forms.
Each man travels through space enclosed within a cage
of his own building, surrounded by a mass of the forms
created by his habitual thoughts. Through this medium
he looks out upon the world, and naturally he sees
THOUGHT-FORMS
colour, and the study of its variations and combinations
is an exceedingly interesting one.
This thought-form may not inaptly be compared to a
Leyden jar, the coating of living essence being symbol-
ised by the jar, and the thought energy by the charge
of electricity. If the man's thought or feeling is directly
connected with someone else, the resultant thought-form
moves towards that person and discharges itself upon his
astral and mental bodies. If the man's thought is about
himself, or is based upon a personal feeling, as the vast
majority of thoughts are, it hovers round its creator and
is always ready to react upon him whenever he is for a
moment in a passive condition. For example, a man
who yields himself to thoughts of impurity may forget
all about them while he is engaged in the daily routine
of his business, even though the resultant forms are hang-
ing round him in a heavy cloud, because his attention is
otherwise directed and his astral body is therefore not
impressible by any other rate of vibration than its own.
When, however, the marked vibration slackens and the
man rests after his labours and leaves his mind blank as
regards definite thought, he is very likely to feel the
vibration of impurity stealing insidiously upon him. If
the consciousness of the man be to any extent awakened,
he may perceive this and cry out that he is being tempted
by the devil; yet the truth is that the temptation is from
without only in appearance, since it is nothing but
the natural reaction upon him of his own thought-forms.
Each man travels through space enclosed within a cage
of his own building, surrounded by a mass of the forms
created by his habitual thoughts. Through this medium
he looks out upon the world, and naturally he sees