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1.  The Function of Thought-Forms

It will be noted that in studying this matter, we begin not with the exoteric form in mental matter, but with the inner Life, or Idea within the form and with the Laws that govern the creative aspect.  This function of every thought-form is threefold:  a) To respond to vibration.   b) To provide a body for an idea.   c) To carry out a specific purpose.

a)  Response to Vibration:  The object of human evolution is to enable the Thinker to fully and consciously respond to every contact, and thus to utilize his sheaths as adequate transmitters.  The most easily studied human thought-form is the one the Ego creates through which to function.  He builds his sheaths by the power of thought, and the dense physical body is the best sheath that He can manufacture at any particular stage of evolution.  The vibrations to which the systemic thought-form must respond are many, but might be enumerated as mainly seven:

1. The vibrations of the cosmic Physical plane, concerning the pranic and akashic fluids and currents.

2. The vibrations of the cosmic Astral plane as they affect the physical form of divine manifestation, which involves the action upon our Solar Logos of the emotional quality of other cosmic entities and concerns the magnetic effect upon Him of their psychic emanation.  This, in view of the fact that His dense physical body is not a principle, is of a more potent nature than the first set of vibrations.

3. Vibrations from that which, within the logoic consciousness, is recognized as the logoic Higher Self, or His emanating source.  This brings the solar system within the vibratory radius of certain constellations which have a profound importance in the evolution of the system.

4. Vibrations from Sirius via the cosmic Mental plane.

5. Vibrations from the seven Rishis of the Great Bear and primarily from those two Who are the Prototypes of the Lords of the seventh and fifth Rays.  This important point finds its microcosmic correspondence in the place which the 7th Ray has in the building of a thought-form, and the use of the 5th Ray in the work of concretion.

6. Certain very remote vibrations, as yet no more appreciable in the logoic Body than is Monadic influence in the average man.

7. A series of vibrations which will become more potent as our Logos nears that period which is called Divine Maturity, which emanates from that constellation in the Heavens which embodies His polar opposite.  (Marriage of the Logos)

Always remember that response must be made by the inner embodied Life, and that it will then, through a reflex action, bring about a response from the material sheath which veils it.  Vibration is the result of subjective impulse, and makes its appeal to the subjective consciousness through impact upon whatever may be understood as substance; this impact is transmitted to the inner life and in due turn is retransmitted to substance in the form of recognition or realization.  Thought-forms persist for just as long as the factor of Will, or dynamic vitality, continues to hold it together.

b)  To Provide a Body for an Idea:  

This involves the basic principle of incarnation, activity and existence itself.  This creative impulse, this tendency towards the concretion of the abstract, this inherent ability to ‘take form’ has its fullest expression as yet in physical matter.  The fundamental reason is that, for man, all substances with which he creates, all forms which he builds, and all processes of concretion which he carries on, are created, built and carried on within the physical body of the logos.

In due course of time, as the Logos achieves liberation from the trammels of physical matter, the whole objective system will come to be regarded as an idea or concept, clothed in a veil or sheath of subtler matter than the physical, and the logoic body will be viewed as the product of will and desire, and physical matter will not enter into its composition; it will simply be a desire body.  An embodied idea is literally a positive impulse, emanating from mental levels, and clothing itself in a veil of negative substance.  

c)  To Carry Out Specific Purpose:

This is the most vital element in the building of thought-forms.  First the consciousness aspect was seen, in the second the more objective aspect was elaborated relating to the form and now the will, or purpose aspect is to be considered.

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