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spoken, conceived but not yet made flesh. Let the reader concentrate his mind for a few moments on this mental image, and obtain a distinct notion of it, isolated from all else, apart from all the results it is going to produce on other planes than its own. It forms, as just said, part of the content of the consciousness of its creator, part of his inalienable property; it cannot be separated from him; he carries it with him during his earthly life, carries it with him through the gateway of death, carries it with him in the regions beyond death; and if, during his upward travelling through those regions, he himself passes into air too rarefied for it to endure, he leaves behind the denser matter built into it, carrying on the mental matrix, the essential form; on his return to the grosser region the matter of that plane is again built into the mental matrix, and the appropriate denser form is reproduced. This mental image may remain sleeping, as it were, for long periods, but it may be re-awakened and revivified, every fresh impulse—from its creator, from its progeny (dealt with below), from entities of the same type as its progeny–increases its life-energy, and modifies its form.
It evolves, as we shall see, according to definite laws, and the aggregation of these mental images
