Karma

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

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form gives a touch of individuality to that which ensouls it. [How marvellous and how illuminating are the correspondences in Nature!] This is the active entity, spoken of in the Master's description, and it is this astro-mental image that ranges over the astral plane, keeping up with its progenitor the magnetic tie spoken of, reacting on its parent, the mental image, and acting also on others. The life-period of an astro-mental image may be long or short, according to circumstances, and its perishing does not affect the persistence of its parent; any fresh impulse given to the latter will cause it to generate afresh its astral counterpart as each repetition of a word produces a new form.
The vibrations of the mental image do not only pass downwards to the lower astral plane, but they pass upwards also into the spiritual plane above it. And as the vibrations cause a denser form on the lower plane, so do they generate a far subtler form-dare I call it form? it is no form to us--on the higher, in the ākāsha, the world-stuff emanated from the Logos Itself. The ākāsha is the storehouse of all forms, the treasure house
1 See Chapter: THE GENERATION OF THOUGHT FORMs, and also diagram, p. 6.
• These words downwards and upwards are very misleading; the plancs of course interpenetrate cach other.