Book Title: Study in Karma Author(s): Annie Besant Publisher: Theosophist Office AdyarPage 64
________________ THOUGHT, THE BUILDER 53 by a vibration in matter, and a similar change, however often repeated, brings about a similar vibration. This vibration. is strongest in the matter nearest to you, and the matter nearest to you is your own mental body. If you repeat a thought, it repeats the corresponding vibration, and, as when matter has vibrated in a particular way once it is easier for it to vibrate in that same way again than to vibrate in a new way, the more often you repeat a thought the more ready the vibrationary response. Presently, after much repetition, a tendency will be set up in the matter of your mental body, automatically to repeat the vibration on its own account; when it does this since the vibration in matter and the thought in consciousness are inseparably linked--the thought appears in the mind without any previous activity on the part of consciousness. Hence when you have thought over a thing--a virtue, an emotion, a wishPage Navigation
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