Understanding Thought-Forms and Mental Bodies in Esoteric Psychology

The mental matter that forms the aura is no longer the same as before but is of superior quality. DESTINATION TOWARD SOMEONE: If a person's thoughts or feelings are directed toward a given individual, the resulting thought-form will direct itself toward that individual, then discharging onto their astral and mental vehicles. In this image we see thoughts of help reaching the object of this help, but in the same way there can be thoughts of anger, greed, positive or negative. If the person who is the object of this thought resists the discharge of the thought form, it discharges onto those who are psychically close to the subject in question. This is the typical mechanism of TELEPATHY. A classic case is when there's an event of danger that moves strong mental, emotional and instinctive forces. An individual, for example, has an accident and from him departs an extremely strong thought form because it's charged with very strong emotional, mental and instinctive forces that reach the individual psychically closest (not physically) to the subject in question. If this person is in a state of receptivity, they have certainty that something has happened to the other individual. TOWARD ONESELF: if instead a person's thought is directed toward themselves, it's based on a personal feeling - as happens for the vast majority of cases - then the thought-form hovers around its creator and is always ready to react upon them whenever the individual momentarily places themselves in a condition of passivity. This is the reason for recurring thoughts, which emerge as soon as one puts themselves in a state of receptivity or isn't busy. This thought form with all its associated emotional charges becomes an impulse and persistent thought that reappears every time the individual is momentarily relaxed. The typical case is that of love passion or a suddenly ended love story, or resentment toward a person for an unfinished situation. Being unfinished, the individual continues to think about it and continuing to think about the event forms and substantiates the corresponding thought form more and more. In general, this is also the reason underlying positive thinking. Each individual thus moves within a kind of cage, of their own construction, surrounded by their habitual thoughts, by their mass of thought-forms; through this medium they look out at the world, and naturally, see everything tinted with their predominant colors, and all vibrations reaching them from outside are more or less modified by theirs. Thus until that person learns complete control of thoughts and feelings, they can never see anything as it really is since all their observations are filtered by their cage which distorts and discolors anything, like a defective mirror. TOWARD NO ONE: If finally the thought-form is neither selfish or egocentric, nor specifically directed at someone else, then it, detached from the mental body, floats in the atmosphere, radiating throughout the time vibrations similar to those originally emanated by its creator. If it doesn't come into contact with some other mental body, it will gradually exhaust its energy reserve, and thus the thought-form will be annulled; if on the contrary it manages to awaken sympathetic vibration in a nearby mental body, an attraction phenomenon will occur between the two vibrations, so that the thought-form will usually be absorbed by the new mental body. This is why continuous association with depressed people can lead to depression or sadness, a typical case of emotional and mental pollution. RESONANCE: These thought forms however it's important to understand that they enter the individual's atmosphere and attach to them only if they find an affine environment in the aura colors with which they can vibrate. If for example an individual is reached by a thought form of depression or sadness, this will enter the individual's aura only if this individual has a certain even vague propensity to sadness, otherwise the thought form cannot attach to the aura and passes through as if electromagnetic waves pass through a radio tuned to another station. For this reason it's said that a pure heart and mind are the best protectors against any assault, since a pure heart and mind will build precious astral and mental bodies, constituted of subtle matter, and such bodies cannot respond to vibrations of dense and coarse nature. If a thought of evil nature, projected with maleficent intentions, strikes against a body of the previously described type, it can only be repelled, so that it will return with all its energy toward the magnetic line that offers less resistance, that is the one it just crossed, thus striking its inspirer. As long as a certain coarse type of matter persists in an individual, combined with malevolent and selfish thoughts, they will remain open to attacks from those who want to harm them; but when they have perfectly eliminated this through purification of their being, their enemies can no longer harm, and they will pass calmly, in peace among all the darts that threaten them. Harmful instead will be the effects for those who launched these darts. Purification is the best protection against evil feelings. DEATH OF PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUALITY: As someone rightly pointed out the other time, these bodies have a temporary character, like clothes. Today I'm healthy and fit, tomorrow I'm anemic, today I feel highly spiritual emotions tomorrow I'm irritated, today I have one thought and know certain things tomorrow I have another and know other things. In short, health, emotions and thoughts don't represent WHO I AM but WHAT I'M DOING. We have seen however that all these bodies are not immortal and that the matter with which...