Thought-Forms eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 72 pages of information about Thought-Forms.

Thought-Forms eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 72 pages of information about Thought-Forms.
colour shines out through a network of lines of some quite different hue.  It will be noted that in this case from the mass of violet there rise many wavy lines which flow like rivulets over a golden plain; and this makes it clear that the loftiest aspiration is by no means vague, but is thoroughly supported by an intellectual grasp of the situation and a clear comprehension of the method by which it can be put into effect.

[Illustration:  FIG. 36.  THE APPRECIATION OF A PICTURE]

FORMS SEEN IN THOSE MEDITATING

Sympathy and Love for all.—­Hitherto we have been dealing chiefly with forms which are the expression of emotion, or of such thought as is aroused within the mind by external circumstances.  We have now to consider some of those caused by thoughts which arise from within—­forms generated during meditation—­each being the effect produced by a conscious effort on the part of the thinker to form a certain conception, or to put himself into a certain attitude.  Naturally such thoughts are definite, for the man who trains himself in this way learns how to think with clearness and precision, and the development of his power in this direction shows itself in the beauty and regularity of the shapes produced.  In this case we have the result of an endeavour on the part of the thinker to put himself into an attitude of sympathy and love towards all mankind, and thus we have a series of graceful lines of the luminous green of sympathy with the strong roseate glow of affection shining out between them (Fig. 37).  The lines are still sufficiently broad and wide apart to be easily drawn; but in some of the higher examples of thought-forms of this type the lines are so fine and so close that no human hand can represent them as they really are.  The outline of this thought-form is that of a leaf, yet its shape and the curve of its lines are more suggestive of a certain kind of shell, so that this is another example of the approximation to forms seen in physical nature which we noted in commenting upon Fig. 16.

[Illustration:  FIG. 37.  SYMPATHY AND LOVE FOR ALL]

An Aspiration to Enfold all.—­In Fig. 38 we have a far more developed example of the same type.  This form was generated by one who was trying, while sitting in meditation, to fill his mind with an aspiration to enfold all mankind in order to draw them upward towards the high ideal which shone so clearly before his eyes.  Therefore it is that the form which he produces seems to rush out from him, to curve round upon itself, and to return to its base; therefore it is that the marvellously fine lines are drawn in lovely luminous violet, and that from within the form there shines out a glorious golden light which it is unfortunately quite impossible to reproduce.  For the truth is that all these apparently intricate lines are in reality only one line circling round the form again and again with unwearied patience

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