Reflections on a World of Thought

The Astral is a world of thought. We construct what we have and realise what we possess by our thoughts. Our thoughts produce things.

Everything we see is a reflection of our thoughts. Every object is a consequence of our thoughts, made manifest in form and each means something. In the Astral, we learn to distinguish what is best to bring out in the objective, for thoughts are things real—good or bad—according to the power we give them. They manifest themselves in many forms—they are our thoughts merely expressed in forms. We expect to see a room and we do. When we think of the room's furnishings, our thoughts form the kind of setting we like—furnishings to which we were accustomed in our physical life. Suppose you had been thrust from the physical body of the material into the astral and at that time had been living in cramped circumstances. When you came to the Astral, your thought would not have changed and immediately when you had overcome darkness and weakness, your mind would reach out and bring forth forms of your earthly existence. You would see again around you the furnishings and thought pictures of your earthly life. We bring from the earth plane, when we come here, our every thought of the material. Some are so filled with these thoughts that they believe for a long time that they are existing as they did upon the earth plane.