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.

The Logos pervading all.—­Our next three Figures are devoted to the effort to represent a thought of a very high type—­an endeavour to think of the LOGOS as pervading all nature.  Here again, as in Fig. 38, it is impossible to give a full reproduction, and we must call upon our readers for an effort of the imagination which shall to some extent supplement the deficiencies of the arts of drawing and printing.  The golden ball depicted in Fig. 42 must be thought of as inside the other ball of delicate lines (blue in colour) which is drawn in Fig. 44.  Any effort to place the colours in such intimate juxtaposition on the physical plane results simply in producing a green blur, so that the whole character of the thought-form is lost.  It is only by means of the machine before mentioned that it is at all possible to represent the grace and the delicacy of the lines.  As before, a single line produces all the wonderful tracery of Fig. 44, and the effect of the four radiating lines making a sort of cross of light is merely due to the fact that the curves are not really concentric, although at first sight they appear to be so.

[Illustration:  FIG. 42.  THE LOGOS PERVADING ALL]

[Illustration:  FIG. 44.  THE LOGOS PERVADING ALL]

Another Conception.—­Fig. 45 exhibits the form produced by another person when trying to hold exactly the same thought.  Here also we have an amazing complexity of almost inconceivably delicate blue lines, and here also our imagination must be called upon to insert the golden globe from Fig. 42, so that its glory may shine through at every point.  Here also, as in Fig. 44, we have that curious and beautiful pattern, resembling somewhat the damascening on ancient Oriental swords, or that which is seen upon watered silk or moire antique.  When this form is drawn by the pendulum, the pattern is not in any way intentionally produced, but simply comes as a consequence of the crossing of the innumerable microscopically fine lines.  It is evident that the thinker who created the form upon Fig. 44 must have held in his mind most prominently the unity of the LOGOS, while he who generated the form in Fig. 45 has as clearly in mind the subordinate centres through which the divine life pours forth, and many of these subordinate centres have accordingly represented themselves in the thought-form.

[Illustration:  FIG. 45.  ANOTHER CONCEPTION]

The Threefold Manifestation.—­When the form employed in Fig. 46 was made, its creator was endeavouring to think of the LOGOS in His threefold manifestation.  The vacant space in the centre of the form was a blinding glow of yellow light, and this clearly typified the First Aspect, while the Second was symbolised by the broad ring of closely-knitted and almost bewildering lines which surround this centre, while the Third Aspect is suggested by the narrow outer ring which seems more loosely woven.  The whole figure is pervaded by the usual golden light gleaming out between the lines of violet.

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