Karma

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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people attach different images to the same words, or use different words to represent the same images.
A thought-form, then, is a mental image, createdor moulded—by the mind out of the subtle matter of the higher psychic plane, in which, as above said, it works. This form, composed of the rapidly vibrating atoms of the matter of that region, sets up vibrations all around it; these vibrations will give rise to sensations of sound and colour in any entities adapted to translate them thus, and as the thought-form passes outward-or sinks downward, whichever expression may be preferred to express the transition into the denser matter of the lower psychic regions, these vibrations thrill out as a singing-colour in every direction, and call to the thought form whence they proceed the elementals belonging to that colour.
All elementals, like all things else in the universe, belong to one or other of the seven primary Rays, the seven primeval Sons of Light. The white light breaks forth from the Third Logos, the manifested Divine Mind, in the seven Rays, the “Seven Spirits that are before the Throne," and each of these Rays has its seven sub-rays, and so onwards in sequential sub-divisions. Hence, amid the endless differentiations that make up a universe, there are elementals