Speaker 2: Thought in action.
Speaker 1: Without attempting to go into details or to enter into explanations,
the writer proposes taking his readers on a flying trip
through the region of thought and action, or dynamic thought
and operation in human life. The details of this fascinating
region must be left for another and more extended visit
and our next book before mentioned, which will be called
The Wonders of the Mind. But he thinks that even
this flying trip will prove of interest and instruction. Let
us start with a hasty look at man himself, not
to speak of his seven planes of mind, which belongs
to the next visit. We find him a very interesting object.
Not only has he a physical body apparent to our senses,
but he has also a finer or astral body, which
he may use unconsciously or consciously when he learns how
for little excursions away from the body during his lifetime.
This astral body is composed of substance, just as his
denser physical body. The field and range of substance extends
far beyond the powers of ordinary vision, as even the
materialists must admit when they talk of radiant matter, ethereal substance,
et cetera. Then he has currents of fine force coursing
through his nervous system, which may be seen by those
possessing astral vision. If the teaching of the occultist be true,
then he, like the particle, has an aura or egg
shaped projection of mind and fine particles of cycoplasm, which
has been thrown off in the process of thought, and
which clusters around him, producing a mental atmosphere which constantly
surrounds him and makes itself felt by those coming in
his presence. Those who read these words may remember readily
the feeling they have experienced when coming in contact with
certain people. How some radiated in an atmosphere of cheerfulness, brightness,
et cetera, while others radiated the very opposite. Some radiate
a feeling of energy, activity, et cetera, while others manifest
just the reverse. Many likes and dislikes between people meeting
for the first time arise in this way, each finding
in the mental apps atmosphere of the other, some inharmonious element.
These radiations are perceived by others coming into their range.
Occultists tell us that the character of a man's thought
vibrations may be determined by certain colors which are visible
to those having astral sight. There is nothing so wonderful
about this when it is remembered that the various colors
of light comprising the visible colors of the spectrum, ranging
from red on through orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and
terminating in violet, arise simply from different rates of vibration
of the particles of substance, And as the thought is
produced by mind causing vibrations in the cycoplasm, why is
not the astra colors reasonable? We cannot stop to consider
these colors in detail, but may run over the ones
corresponding to each marked emotion of thought, as reported by
the occult teachings. For instance, the shade of the thought
manifesting in physical or organic functions is of a colorless
white or color of clear water, and the color of
the thought manifesting in fine force or vital energy is
that of air heated air arising from a furnace or
heated ground when it emerges from the body, although of
a faint pink when in the body itself, black represents hate, malice,
et CETERA gray bright shade represents selfishness, while gray of
a dark, dull shade represents fear. Green represents jealousy, deceit, treachery,
and similar motions, ranging from the dull shades which characterize
the lower and cruder forms, to the bright shades, which
characterize the finer or more delicate forms of tact, politeness,
and diplomacy, et cetera. Red, dull shade represents sensuality and
animal passion, while red bright and vivid represents anger. Crimson
in varying shades represents the phases of love, brown represents
avarice or greed, orange represents pride and ambition, and yellow
in varying shades represent grades of intellectual power. Blue is
the color of the religious thoughts, ranging, however, through a
great variety of stages, from the dull shade of superstitious
religious belief to the beautiful violet of the highest religion, emotion,
or thought. What is generally known as spirituality is characterized
by a light blue of a peculiar luminous shade. Just
as there are ultra red or ultraviolet rays in the
spectrum which the eye cannot perceive, so ocultest inform us,
there are colors in the aura or a mental atmosphere
of a person of unusual psychic or a cult development
the ultraviolet rays indicating the thought of one who is
pursuing the higher planes of a cult thought and unfoldment,
while the ultra red is evidenced by those possessing a
cult development, but who are using the same for base
and selfish purposes black magic. In fact, there are other
shades known to occultist indicating several highly developed states of mind,
but it is needless to mention them here. But the
influence of these particles of thought stuff thrown off from
the mind psychoplasm under the vibrations produced by the mo
during the process of thought, does not cease what the
phenomena surrounding the aura. They are radiated to a considerable
distance and produce a number of effects. Particles are thrown
off in great quantities, each vibrating at the rate imparted
to it during the process. No, these particles of thought
stuff do not compose the thought waves. The latter belong
to a different set of phenomena. These particles of vibrating
thought stuff fly off from the brain of the thinker
in all directions and affect other persons who may come
in contact with them.
Speaker 2: There is an important rule here, however, and.
Speaker 1: That is that they seem to be attracted by those
minds which are vibrating in similar thought rates with themselves,
and are but feebly attracted and in some cases actually
repelled by minds vibrating on opposite lines of thought like
attracts like in the thought world, and birds of a
feather flock together. Here as elsewhere, some of these particles
of thought stuff are still in existence, in vibrating which
proceeded from the minds of persons long since dead, the
same being aditis or thrown off during the lifetime of
the persons. However, just as a distant star which was
destroyed hundreds of years ago may have emitted rays which
are only now reaching our vision years after the destruction
of the star which.
Speaker 2: Omitted them, and just as an.
Speaker 1: Odor will remain in a room after the object causing
it has departed, the particles still remaining and vibrating. And
just as a stove removed from a room may leave
heat vibrations behind it, so do these particles persist, vibrate,
and influence other minds long after the person who caused
them may have passed out of the body. In this way, rooms, houses, neighborhoods,
and localities may vibrate with the thoughts of people who
lived there long ago, who have since passed away or removed.
These vibrations affect people living in these places to a
greater or lesser extent, depending upon circumstances, but they may
always be counteracted or changed if they are of undesirable
nature by setting upon positive vibrations on a different plane
of mind or character of thought. The mind of a
thinker is constantly emitting or throwing off these particles of
thought stuff, the distance and rate of speed to and
by which they travel being determined by the force used
in their production, there being a great difference between the
thought of a vigorous thinker and that emanating from a weak,
listless mind. These projections of thought stuff have a tendency
to mingle with others of a corresponding rate of vibration,
depending upon the character of the thought. Some remain around
the places where they were emitted, while others float off
like clouds and obey the law of attraction which draws
them to persons thinking along similar lines. The characteristics of
cities arise in this way, the general average of thought
of their inhabitants, causing a corresponding thought atmosphere to hang
over and around it, which atmosphere is distinctly felt by
visitors and often determines the mental character of the persons
residing there in spite of their previous characteristics, that is,
unless they understand the laws of thought. Some neighborhoods also
have their own peculiar mental atmosphere, as all may have
noticed if they have visited certain tough neighborhoods on the
one hand, and neighborhoods of an opposite kind on the other.
Certain kinds of thoughts and actions seem to be contagious
in certain places, and they are those who do not
understand the law. Certain shops seem to have their own atmosphere,
some reflecting confidence and honest dealing, and others radiating an
atmosphere that causes patrons to hold tightly to their pocketbooks
and in some extreme cases, to be certain that their
buttons are tightly sewed on their garments. Yes, places, like people,
have their distinctive mental atmospheres, and both arise from the
same cause. And each person draws to himself these particles
of vibrating thought stuff corresponding with the general mental attitude
maintained by him. If one harbors feelings of malice, he
will find thoughts of malice, revenge, hate, etc.
Speaker 2: Pouring in upon him.
Speaker 1: He has made himself a center of attraction and has
set the law into operation. His only safe course is
to resolutely change his thought vibrations. A most remarkable form
of the use these particles of thought stuff is evidenced
in the case of what are known among occultist as
thought forms, which are aggregations of particles of thought stuff
energized by intense and positive thought, and which are sent
out with such intensity and positiveness that they are almost
vitalized and manifest almost the same degree of mental influence
that would be manifested by the cinder if he were
present where they are. This highly interesting phase of the
subject would take many chapters to describe in detail, and
we must content ourselves with a mere passing view. To
those who are interested in the subject. The writer would
say that he proposes considering them at considerable length in
the forthcoming book The Wonders of the Mind, which has
been alluded to elsewhere. Besides the operation of these particles
of thought stuff emitted during the production of thought, there
are many other phases of thought influence or thought in action.
The principal phase of this phenomena arises from the working
of the law of attraction between the respective minds of
different people. Just as there are particles of substance united
and connected by lines of connection, so are the minds
of men connected, and the strong pool of desire manifest
along these lines, just as it does in the case
of the atoms.
Speaker 2: There has been much written of.
Speaker 1: Recent years regarding this drawing power of the mind, and
although some of what has been written is the veriest
rubbish and nonsense, yet under it all there remains a
strong form, substantial substratum of fact and truth. Men do
attract success and failure to them. People do attract things
to them as strangers. That may seem to the person
who has not acquainted himself with the laws of underlying
the phenomenon. There is no miracle about all of this.
It is simply that the law of attraction is in
full operation, and that people of similar thoughts are drawn
together by reason. Thereof, The workings of this law are
somewhat intricate, but all of us are constantly using them,
consciously or unconsciously. We draw to ourselves that which we desire.
Very much or that which we fear very much year
is a belief and acts in the direction of actualizing
itself sometimes but again, as Kipling would say, but that's
another story. This phase of the subject is a mighty
subject in itself, and the half has not been told
even by the many who have written of it. The
writer intends to try to remedy the deficiency in his
next book. However, then again, the excitement of thought in
the minds of people may be transmitted or communicated to
the minds of others, and a similar vibration set up
under certain conditions and subject to certain restraining influences, just
as in the case of the particles of substances in
a body or massive substance, and in many ways that
will suggest themselves to the reader who has mastered the
contents of the earlier chapters of this book. The phenomena
of dynamic thought in the case of the atoms and
particles may be and are duplicated in the case of
individual minds of men. The reader will see readily that
this theory of dynamic thought, and the facts noted in
the consideration thereof give an intelligent explanation for the respective
phenomena of hypnotism, mesmerism, suggestion, thought, transference to lepathy, et cetera,
as well as of mental healing, magnetic healing, et cetera,
all of which are manifestations of dynamic thought. Not only
do we see, as Prentice Molfort said, that thoughts are things,
but we may see just why they are things, and
we may see and understand the laws of their production
and operation. This theory of dynamic thought will throw light
into many dark corners and make plain many hard sayings
that have perplexed you in the past. The writer believes
that it gives us the key to many of the
great riddles of life.
Speaker 2: This theory has come to stay.
Speaker 1: It is no ephemeral thing doomed to die a borning.
It will be taken up by others, impolished and added to,
and shaped and decorated, but the fundamental principles will stand
the stress of time and men. Of this, the writer
feels assured. It may be laughed at at first, not
only by the man on the street, but also by
the scientist, but it will outlive this, and in time
will come to its own, perhaps long after the writer
in the book have been forgotten. This must be so,
for the idea of dynamic thought underlies the entire universe,
and is the cause of all phenomena. Not only is
all that we see as life and mind as substance
illustrations of the law, but even that which lies back
of these things must evidence the same law. Is it
too daring a conception to hazard the thought that perhaps
the universe itself is the result of the dynamic thought
of the infinite. Oh, dynamic thought, we see in THEE
the instrument by which all form and shape are created, changed,
and destroyed. We see in THEE the source of all energy, force,
and motion.
Speaker 2: We see THEE.
Speaker 1: Always present and everywhere, present, and always in action. Fairly,
thou art life in action. Thou art the embodiment of
action and motion, of which Zidel hath said. Wherever our
eyes dwell on the universe, whithersoever we are carried in
the flight of thought, Everywhere we find motion. Suns, planets, worlds, bodies, atoms,
and particles move and act at thy bidding, amidst all
the change of substance, among the play of forces and
among and amidst all the results therefrom There art thou
unchanged and constant, as though fresh from the hand of
the infinite. Thou hast maintained thy vigor and strength and
power throughout the aeons of time, And likewise space has
no terrors for THEE. For thou hast mastered it. Thou
art a symbol of the power of the infinite. Thou
art its message to doubting man. Let us close this
book with the thought of the greatness of this thing
that we call dynamic thought, which great as it is,
is but as the shadow of the absolute power of
the infinite one, which is the causeless cause and the
causer of causes. And in thus parting company, reader, let
us murmur the words of the German who has sung,
dost thou ask for rest?
Speaker 2: See then, how.
Speaker 1: Foolish is thy desire? The stern yoke of motion holds
and harness the whole universe. Nowhere in this age canst
thou ever find rest, And no power can deliver THEE
from the doom of activity. Rest is not to be found,
either in heaven or on earth. And from death and
dying break forth new growth, new birth. All the life
of nature is an ocean of activity. Following on her
footsteps without ceasing, Thou must march forward with the hole,
Even the dark portal of death gives thee no rest,
And out of thy coffin will spring blossoms of a
new life.