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foreign to another at home with theosophy we are exploring the ancient wisdom by Annie besant some selected chapters from and last week we have studied the how she describes the physical plane and that was a more or less basic introduction to the idea of planes of matter we have seen that there are several planes there is a a chart here or a table with the different planes and we are going to refer to that during all these classes and we have seen also that what we call matter which based on called called Spirit Dash matter because every every point in matter is also a point in Consciousness so what we call matter is unconsciousness Expresses in different ways forming what in theosophy is the different planes so this week we are going to explore the the second plane if we count from below up which is the astral plane astral plane the astral plane is the region of the universe next to the physical if the word next may be permitted in such a connection the word next is however inappropriate as suggesting the idea that the planes of the universe are arranged as concentric circles one ending where the next begins rather they are concentric interpenetrating spheres not separated from one from each other by distance but by difference of Constitution so this is the first misleading aspect of talking about planes and presenting tables as the ones we have here because it looks like the planes are in a kind of layered reality where one plane is on top of the other so we are right here in the physical plane and the astral plane is it looks like it's not right here the astral plane is up they are wherever the physical finishes so that is not the idea at all all the planes are right here and when we draw these kind of tables the higher plane doesn't mean that it's high higher especially at the level of space but it's higher in the the kind of matter the energy and the vibration of that kind of matter that we call astral matter which is beyond what our five senses can perceive we know this with light for example five senses or our eyes can perceive a particular range of vibration that we call visible light and whatever is um above that at the level of frequency or below that cannot be perceived by our eyes so same with the astral matter the astral matter is right here but our five senses just cannot perceive them perceive it the AstroWorld is above us below us on every side of us through us we live and move in it but it is intangible invisible and audible imperceptible because the prison of the physical body shuts us away from it the physical particles being too gross to be set in vibration by astral matter so that is what I just said the the the astral matter is right here but we cannot perceive it with the five senses let's see Eddie's raising his hand go ahead Ed yeah I think the easiest example is the fact that there's Wi-Fi where we're at there's television waves there's radio waves there's uh cosmic rays and all of that interpenetrate each other and yet are separated uh basically by their frequency and so it's just like this yeah that's a good example and it's also like you know if you turn on the radio there are all kinds of stations that you can you can to get but they they all the the radio waves are right here but which one you get depends on how you attune your radio to what kind of frequency so are the different aspects in a human being as we are going to see the physical the astral aspect the mental aspect these are all different receptors that respond to different kinds of frequencies as we are going to see so yeah that's a a good way to see this the spirit matter of that plane is more highly vitalized and finer than any grade of spirit matter in the physical world the ultimate physical atom the constituent of the rarest physical ether has for its sphere wall innumerable aggregations of the coarsus astral matter so remember we saw when analyzing the constitution of physical matter we saw that there are seven different states of matter the last one is the the true atom atom in the sense of whatever is indivisible and that is the subtlest physical particle if we want to call it that way but it is made of the grossest the more the densest the slower of the kinds of Astral matter so whatever is the subtlest in the physical is is the densest of the astral matter so the astral plane itself is is a sunny Basin says here far more subtle and vitalized life on the astral plane is more active than on the physical plane and form is more plastic the spirit matter of the astral plane exists in seven subdivisions as we have seen in the physical they are as here there are numberless combinations forming the astral solids liquids gases and ethers but most material forms there have a brightness a translucency as compared to forms here which have caused the Epitaph astral or Starry to be applied to them so astral comes from the Stars Starry in the sense that is shiny because the the astral matter has this kind of brightness it itself you know in the on the in the physical plane you need external light to make things bright on the astral plane everything has its own brightness and because the physical matter is so dense the the form physical forms are far more stable and solid and uh you know unchangeable than they are on the astral plane on the astral plane forms are are very changeable at any moment any form can change you may have an appearance on the astral plane but you can change it completely at any moment with very little effort that's because the the the matter itself the astral matter has a completely different quality as any person says here there is what we could call astral solids it's not that that is solid it's that is the densest of the kinds of Astral matter she says in the book we don't have any any names for this kind of Divisions on the other planes so she uses the same idea of solid liquids and gases allegorically the main idea to be grasped is that astral objects are combinations of Astral matter as physical objects are combinations of physical matter and that the astral World scenery much resembles that of Earth in consequence of its being largely made up of the astral duplicates of physical objects so everything in the universe has astral matter just as it has a physical matter so you we can see the physical aspect of a chair for example through our physical senses there are also astral senses that in most people in humanity are still dormant but if our astral senses were working you could see the astral chair meaning the astral matter that is around the physical matter of the physical plane so if you look on the astral plane you would see all the same objects as we see them around physically but you would see the industrial counter part of it so it is more or less similar although as we are going to see is some kind of education is necessary education of your perception to be able to understand the astral world because the the matter there is different one peculiarity however arrests and confuses the untrained Observer partly because of the translucency of Astral objects and partly because of the nature of Astral Vision Consciousness being less hampered by the finer astral matter than when encased in the terrestrial everything is transparent its back is visible as its front it's inside as it's outside so things are not so solid as we said the the idea of matter is impenetrable it's only true at the physical level um that that is an artistic rendition of maybe an astral landscape where you have mountains and sea and the sky and everything is more or less transparent and confused with each other so when a person begins to see on the astral plane it it needs some some training or some ex gather some experience to be able to understand what he's seeing which seems to be the same the same case with the physical side it is it is believed in the scientific field that the babies they they do have to accustom themselves to interpret what we call you know feed the our site that at the beginning they they don't know how to interpret what they are seeing okay Ed has a question are the astral elements the same as physical elements by elements if if you refer to the chemical elements no the the idea is that the chemical elements is one state of physical matter which can be broken down in into the subatomic particles into quarks into sub quarks as we have seen in the previous class and then if you break that down you have astral matter so you wouldn't have the same elements uh is if he's no he's asking if there is astral gold I don't think there is astral gold but what we call Gold has some Astra the item that we call Gold has some astral matter around um so you could see the gold from the astral point of view but I don't if you could separate the asterisk from the physical you wouldn't have astral gold in itself you know it's a little complicated but the idea is that there there are some astral kind of entities objects that are purely astral and then the physical objects they have an astral counterpart because all the atoms have like the all the the different planes but it is the the astral counterpart of the physical so I wouldn't say that there is then how the does the astral mimic the physical just as I said is like the the atom has like an astral counterpart but you cannot separate that astral part from the physical there are some astral elements if we want to call it that way but they don't do not correspond to the physical some experiences needed therefore air objects are correctly seen and a person who has developed astral Vision but has not yet had much experience in its use is apt to receive the most topsy-turvy Impressions and to fall into the most astounding blunders so for example the image you have there is an image that people in in mathematics use that's a cube seen from a fourth dimension in a to be or things on the asteroid plane are seen in the fourth dimension of of matter not so much space so this is how you would see a cube on the astral plane you see that it's difficult to realize that that is a cube but with experience then you start seeing that there is a cube there and that that's how things look when we talk about all these things it's difficult to explain them based on the bitter Clairvoyance they say what we are trying to explain it in terms of the physical words but that is only an approximate idea that we can we can get through a physical description then the the actual experience with astral matter for example would give a of course a clear idea another striking and at first bewildering characteristic of the astral world is the swiftness with which forms especially when unconnected with any terrestrial Matrix change their outlines an astral entity will change his whole appearance with the most start startling rapidity for astral matter takes the form under every impulse of thought the life swiftly remolding the form to give itself new expression so here you have what Anubis insists and she's talking about two kinds of Astral objects one are the forms that are connected let's say with the terrestrial Matrix so you have the gold that we were talking about and there is astral matter around the gold connected to the gold following if the goal this is a little statue you have around that gold astral matter that resemble the shape of the statue now that astral matter is connected to the the physical Matrix and that doesn't change but then you have astral objects that are not connected to the physical that are pure realstral objects or entities these as an investment says here these astral entities they can change their their appearance at any second mental Essence as the great life wave of the evolution passes downwards through the astral plane it constitutes the third Elemental Kingdom the elemental Essence shows A peculiar vitality and characteristic of responding to and instantly taking shape under the impulse of thought vibrations so in in Antiquity when talking about the kingdoms of nature there were four kingdoms described mineral the vegetable animal and human Kingdom and this is good enough from a symbolic point of view of course from the scientific point of view we we organized the kingdoms in a different way because it's based on the cellular kind of uh structure from the the more esoteric point of view the kingdoms are classified according to the levels of consciousness so with let's say we have mineral vegetable animal and human but there are three more kingdoms besides these four that we are familiar with they are called Elemental Kingdoms these are pre-mineral kingdoms meaning that as we can think of minerals evolving into plants and then into animals and then into human beings in the process of evolution you know first we have inorganic matter developed that would be like the mineral Kingdom then you that inorganic matter begins to form simple uh structures and and then you know the the vegetables and then the the animal forms in that sequence before the mineral is formed there are three Elemental Kingdoms which are not physical so the one that is on the astral plane is called the third Elemental Kingdom then on the higher planes are the other two and uh to the it's a kind of mother slash Consciousness um it's it's a sunny basement is going to describe it's a a kind of energy that is on the astral plane that can respond to thoughts and to emotions and that can generate a certain Instinct instinctive activity and we are going to see an invest and explains this a little more this Elemental Essence exists in hundreds of varieties on every subdivision of the astral plane as though the air became visible here and were in constant undulatory motion with changing colors like mother of pearl if you could see how the the AR there is constantly moving and changing it is said that the elemental lessons on the astral plane it's it's also moving constantly moving like that but not not following a difference of pressure like in the case of the air the air moves according to different pressures in different parts of the world but the the the origin of all this motion is the emotions and thoughts from people or from sentient beings that are constantly influencing these Elemental essence artificial Elementals this vast atmosphere of Elemental Essence is ever answering to vibrations caused by thoughts feelings and desires and is thrown into commotion by A Rush of any of these like bubbles in boiling water in certain sense when you have in in Star Wars the idea of the force you know and that you can sense the force and all these things it could be equated in some aspects to this there is this this constant moving Force which we call Elementals on the astral plane that is responding to any change of emotions or or thoughts or feelings and uh and and and they they actually take shape under this these activities of Consciousness as we are going to see the duration of the form depends on the strength of the impulse to which it owes its birth the clearness of its outline depends on the Precision of the thinking and the color depends on the quality intellectual devotional passional of the thought while they maintain a separate existence they are living entities with bodies of Elemental Essence and thoughts as the insoling lives and they are then called artificial Elementals or thought forms so whenever we think that action of Consciousness thinking is a force that um shapes the elemental lessons that is around us so every thought or emotion that we have produces a form outside of ourselves which is unsold so to say by the the the thinking that we have produced so these forms if the thinking is very clear and precise the forms are also sharp and clear if the thinking is vague and confused so are the forms too and according to the strength of the thought not only the the Precision but also the strength of this thought if it is a passing thought or if it is a thought from a mind that is concentrating will be how long these forms are going to last and according to the the motivation of that thinking or feeling will be the kind of color so if you see a thought form you can judge by the shape the the sharpness the the color and then the strength of it you can judge what kind of thinking has produced it now these thought forms become what is called artificial Elementals they are like little entities which can have a an influence on people outside of ourselves and on ourselves too as she is going to explain vague lose thoughts gather around themselves loose clouds of Elemental Essence when they arrive in the astral world and drift about attracted hither and dither to other clouds of similar nature clinging around the astral bodies of persons whose magnetism attracts them either good or evil and after a while disintegrating to again form a part of the general atmosphere of Elemental essence so many many of the thoughts produced by us are are vague by us I mean humanity and vague feelings of of you know intolerance or vague feelings of love or vague feelings of fear and these produce this kind of clouds that coalesces with other similar clouds and then they may be attracted to a person and when when one of these clouds is attracted to you that tends to stimulate that kind of feeling in yourself so for no reason suddenly you have a certain feeling uh you you feel certain fear or you feel certain Joy or you feel you know some kind of intolerance many times it's just that you are attracting that that or that cloud is attracted to you and then when that feeling appears what the Mind always does is to try to give shape to it to find an explanation for it so so for many times it happens that you have a vague sense of fear and the mind immediately recalls some something in your life that can justify that sense of fear so you put an explanation you put this idea or the memory of something that you are afraid of which was actually stimulated by an external feeling that we just take ownership of and then once the mind is there we begin to stimulate we we begin to sustain that fear or Love or Whatever feeling so it is important to begin to look at ourselves develop a sense of self-observation and see many times there are feelings that you say I I don't want to take ownership of this so you can just let it go if you are aware of it clear precise thoughts have each their own definite shapes with sharp clean outlines and show an endless variety of designs they are shaped by vibrations set up by thought just as on the physical plane we find figures which are shaped by vibrations set up by sound voice figures offer a very fair analogy for Thought figures for nature with all her infinite variety is very conservative of principles and reproduces the same methods of working on plane after plane in her realms these images that are down there are the these so-called voice figures if you look this up on in YouTube for example you will see some it's some some videos with this uh you can make different kinds of sound go through um you know some kind of fabric or or it is a special material and you put sand for example or powder on top of it and you will see how different vibrations Sound Vibrations will produce all these different shapes and uh any businesses some something similar happens with the thought forms a particular thought can produce even this kind of geometrical figures which a clairvoyant a person that is Clairvoyant can see all these geometrical figures around us these clearly defined artificial Elementals have a longer and much more active life than their cloudy Brethren exercising a far stronger influence on the astral bodies and through them on the mines of those to whom they are attracted they set up in them vibrations similar to their own and thus thoughts spread from mind to mind without terrestrial expression more than this they can be directed by The Thinker towards any person he desires to reach their potency depending on the strength of his will and the intensity of his mental power so for these special shapes to be formed the thought has to be accurate and clear and sharp and that also you can see in in that happens with the voice figures or the sound figures there are certain precise frequencies that generate a a particular shape now when we think and we we produce this kind of clear thought forms those thought forms are are shot so to say at the object of our thought so we can generate we can think and send good thoughts to some person to a place to a situation and those thought forms will be directed to our towards that personal place or or situation the same happens with bad thoughts they are also shot at the their aim and asks did bulbotsky talk about thought forms um yes she did more in the under the the idea of elementas she would say you can send Elementals because the Elementals are like the the shape of the thought form or the the matter aspect and the thought itself is the the insolin energy and uh there is in particular one of the Mahatma letters where the master explains all this quite in detail how we generate these artificial Elementals and everything we are talking about that in the later I think it's the letter that he the first letter he wrote to Hume which in the Mahatma letters the chronological Edition is in the one of the appendix um they are there is a very quite detailed explanation of all this the artificial Elementals created by feeling or desire are more vigorous and more definite than those created by thought thus an outburst of anger will cause a very definitely outlined and Powerful flash of red and sustained anger will make a dangerous Elemental red in color and pointed Barbed or otherwise qualified to injure so she says in average people because at this point in in a revolution emotions are still if a farm stronger seat of Consciousness than thinking in most people emotions produce a thought form or or an emotional form so to say stronger than the thinking you know if in a if in a situation there is a conflict between what you feel and what you think you should do in most people what they feel win that's just what we were saying is because emotions are still stronger than reasoning but in people who start trying to lead a spiritual life thinking begins to be stronger than than the emotions and you can see in that image is a rendition an artistic rendition of what any personality beaters saw in in their researches so this is a how the elemental of anger sometimes can be seen love according to its quality will set up forms more or less beautiful in color and design all shades of crimson to the most Exquisite and soft Hues of Rose like the palest blushes of sunset or the dawn clouds of tenderly strong protective shapes many a mother's loving prayers go to hover around her son as Angel forms turning aside from him evil influences that perchance his own thoughts are attracting so many times love can be a shield this reminds me since we are quoting movies uh the idea of Harry Potter if you know how he was protected by the love of her mother his mother so the the idea said on the astral plane our love produces a kind of protection that tends to reject negative thoughts and emotions and attract the positive ones of course how protective The Shield can be depends on many things on the ability of the person to feel real love in the strength of that love in the the strength of the consciousness of that person and so you and the effect of all these things depend on on how how evolved the person is if we want to put it that way it is characteristic of these artificial Elementals when they are directed by the will towards any particular person that they are animated by the one impulse of carrying out the will of their creator a protective Elemental will hover around its object seeking any opportunity of warding off evil or attracting good not consciously but by a blind impulse as finding they are the line of least resistance so also an elemental and sold by a malignant thought will hover around its victim seeking opportunity to injure so this elementas are these artificial element as while they are alive they act as an entity they if if you can see them they they move around they try to produce the the the goal for which they were they were created so creating Elementals is an act of unconscious magic in in a certain sense I mean if they are created unconsciously as with most people um now that intelligence is given to the elemental by the person who created the elemental and there are many stories in in Traditions and uh you know in myths of this kind of entities that can be created by Will so they they act as businesses they are not really consciously they have a blind impulse but there is a kind of intelligence in them but neither of them can make any impression unless there be in the astral body of the object something akin to themselves that can answer accordingly to their vibrations if there be nothing in him of matter cognate to their own then by a law of their nature they rebound from him along the magnetic Trace they have left and rushed to their creator with a force proportionate to that of their projection thus the thought of deadly hatred failing to strike the object at which it was darted has been known to slay its sender while good thoughts sent to the Unworthy return as blessings to him that poured them forth people who are interested in the field of magic and all that which in the philosophical view it's always said um you know there don't try to manipulate these forces because then you open up yourself to to a whole world that you don't know how the laws of this world but there are those who are interested in all this and they they are many times they are concerned about protection how they can protect themselves from these things and they try to devise rituals or tricks or but the the real protection is always to try to keep our mind and our emotions in in positive States if we are not having negative emotions there there are no negative thought forms that can affect you so um you may have a negative thought form around you and the way that that manifests in you is you see this emotion trying to to um be generated inside of you if you are not aware you will identify with that emotion as as I said you will generate a story around that emotion why you feel that and then by that you are taking ownership of it and you are making it stronger but if we start living with with more awareness and having a sense that our field of Consciousness is maybe like a sacred Temple where we we can say what kind of visitors we led into the field of Consciousness so if we are aware and we see these negative emotions we don't need to be afraid we don't need to do anything just be aware of it and don't get entangled in that emotion and therefore what happens is that the thought form bounces off yourself because you are not opening the door and this state of awareness and trying to to keep your mind from getting entangled in negativity is the best protection and a sunny person explains they are the there is this karmic result that if the thought form doesn't find any receptivity it bounces off to whoever sent it so whether that thought for me is good or ill so the the idea is that it is important to begin to generate this state of self observation and to have an active role in when we see the negative emotions see simply do not engage in them and let them you know just bounce off the artificial Elementals in the mass it is easy to realize the tremendous effect they have in producing National and race feelings and thus in biasing and prejudicing the mind we all grow up surrounded by an atmosphere crowded with Elementals and Body in certain ideas National Prejudice and the ways of looking at all questions which play on us from our birth we see everything through this atmosphere as most people are receptive rather than initiative in their nature they act almost as automatic reproducers of the thoughts which reach them and thus the national atmosphere is continually intensified so thus if you travel that's something that you can notice many times how countries have their own way of looking at certain things that they they seem strange to you if if you are not from that country because there is this National atmosphere that is generated by this constant production of thought forms in that particular way so in in some countries a particular kind of political or approach maybe everybody thinks that is good and in a different country everybody thinks that it that is wrong and if you actually ask the individuals very few of them have a rational reason why they think in a particular way that's the way things are you they always thought that way because of what Annie besan says here most people they just feel or unconsciously take on this thinking and they just reproduce it so Even in our own life also it's important part of the spiritual growth implies questioning why we think in the way we do why we have certain judgments why we have certain ideas you will see that if you really see why do I think this have I ever examined this particular subject and have I come to a conclusion you know to to a view that may be wrong or or maybe right but it's a view that that I actively explored or most of my views are just absorbed from the environment so this is important in the spiritual path but because many of us have all these ideas that are actually being put in towards into ourselves from the outside from you know the astral plane or the mental plane when a person is beginning to be sensitive to astral influences he will occasionally find himself suddenly overpowered or assailed by a quite inexplicable and seemingly irrational dread which swoops upon him with even paralyzing Force this arises partly from a certain hostility which animates the natural Elemental World against the human on account of the various destructive agencies devised by him but is also largely due to the presence of so many artificial Elementals of an unfriendly kind bred by human Minds so you you see for example since we all feel we all think on the astral plane every thought and every feeling is put out there and something that happened with the internet for example in in this time is that anybody composed his or her opinion before very few people could write books very few people could you know speak in the radio or TV and now everybody can put out their their thoughts and emotions and if you see and you can see that online many many times we tend to go to negative feelings and negative thoughts as I say in general in humanity if you see in a people how much or many positive thoughts and emotions generate in the day and how many negative in most cases I would say you know just talking generally that there is a tendency for the negative thoughts feelings of intolerance or selfishness or greed or desire or aggression are unfortunately at this point in evolution far more common that feelings of love and compassion and trying to help so the the astral atmosphere around us tends to be more negative than positive so when a person begins to be more sensitive to the astral atmosphere the normally there there is an increase in in this perception of fear and and anger and all these things that begin to to like not cut the door of Consciousness this is why not being able to perceive on the astral plane is a protection that nature gives us until we reach a state of consciousness in which we can remain in with Equanimity regardless of what kind of thoughts or emotions are coming from the outside if we don't develop that state of equanimity then the more sensitive we are the the more we fall prey of these astral influences which as we see the the majority of them are tend to be negative and also a sunny person says there when the these you know in the world we we destroy the environment we kill animals we oppress other creatures and all this generates in the in the natural world a kind of reaction Against Humanity so the Elementals that are on the astral plane they for the most part are kind of hostile to human beings because they see us as a destructive force so many times when a person begins to awaken to the astral plane the first thing that happens is that the elementas recognize that this person can perceive them and they try to go and scare the person or attack the person this is also why in many esoteric Traditions there is a kind sometimes a ceremony or some kind of act in which this person is introduced to the Elementals so that the elementas are not hostile to the person um it's it comes from this this particular fact of of the occult world natural Elementals and nature Spirits outside the class of artificial Elementals the Astro World is thickly populated there are great hosts of natural Elementals or nature Spirits divided into five main classes the Elementals of The Ether fire air water and Earth the last four groups have been termed in medieval occultism the salamanders sliffs sorry uh undynes and gnomes these are the creatures of the elements carrying on the activities connected with them they are channels through which work the Divine energies the living expressions of the laws so so far we have seen the the artificial element that's the one we generate with our thoughts and emotions now there are natural Elementals which are the energies of the elements again not here the elements of the chemical elements but the classical elements Earth fire air and water which are are the the physical manifestation of these non-physical forces so the what what is called the salamanders for example are the is the the elemental energy and Consciousness and the the elemental Spirit if we want to put it that way of fire in in magic for example this Elementals are manipulated to have an effect on the physical element so for example if you know how to manipulate the salamanders then you know how to manipulate fire you can start a fire or you can protect yourself from fire same with the seals which is from AR or the andines or the Gnomes so of course all this information is normally kept secret by those who guard the esoteric knowledge because if we as Humanity learn how to manipulate all this the first thing we were we would use it for is in war Warfare just as we did with the atomic bomb or anything we discover so how to manipulate the elementas and even the existence of the Elementals is normally kept secret and all the this unbelief by the scientific World about all these things is actually a protection if scientists really believed that these things exist they would set themselves on trying to learn how to manipulate them so all this disbelief is also a kind of protection and the the idea is that any law any motion we see around is the the physical effect of sun movement of intelligence which comes from the Elementals the natural Elementals and these natural Elementals are in turn the the builders or the the forces that are directed by higher Celestial beings which in religions are called Angels or or Devas we are going to see all this in in next classes knowing the methods of their control the so-called miracles of magical Feats are worked which from time to time are recorded in the public press as in the case of the late Mr home who could unconcernedly pick a red hot coal out of a blazing fire with his fingers and hold it in his hand unhurt levitation and walking on the water have been done by the aid respectively of the Elementals of the air and water although another method is more often employed yeah normally the what is the the method that is employed is to reverse the polarity of gravity and that's how these things normally happen when people produce this levitation or walking on water but they could also be produced by manipulating the Elementals we find also on the astral plane nature Spirits less accurately termed Elementals who are concerned with the building of forms in the mineral vegetable animal and human kingdoms there are nature spirits who build up minerals who guide the vital energies in plants and who form the bodies of the animal kingdom these are the fairies and elves of Legends the little people who play so large apart in the folklore of every nation the Charming irresponsible Children of the of nature so this is another kind of Elementals which so we have the artificial elementas created by conscious beings by us we have the natural elements which are the the spirit and the forces behind the elements and then there are these nature Spirits which sometimes are are said to be Elementals but they are their own kind of kingdom and the nature Spirits are Builders of forms so when in science for example there is no explanation as to why cells arrange themselves in a particular form if in the lab you try to to cultivate cells they always grow as a sheet but in nature they grow with different forms so scientists don't know how that happened now that is that happens by the manipulation of the the aesthetic part of the physical plane by these Elementals the these nature Spirits so the the ideas are the nature Spirits help to shape the the world that we see around in nature ourselves they are the givers of or the the ones that guide the generation of forms and these are what what are Sunny person says they are the fairies or in different mythologies they have different names another aspect of the that we find on the astral plane we have seen on on the astral plane we have the astral counterpart of objects we have astral entities which we haven't talked much about it but we will later uh and the and we have elementa so all these different kinds which are astral entities so these are part of the the kinds of Astral entities you can see around and now another thing you you see on the astral plane or you find are astral bodies so we will see that the mineral monad exercising his organizing power draws in materials from the astral world and these are built by the nature Spirits into a Loosely constituted Mass the mineral astral body in the vegetable world the astral bodies are a little more organized and their special characteristic of feeling begins to appear dull and diffuse sensations of well-being and discomfort are observable in most plants as the results of the increasing activity of the astral body so the astral body and the astral plane is a plane of Sensations so in the minerals for example here we have again the idea that we have been discussing the the Monarch is like the Divine spark that begins Evolution so the Mona that is animating the mineral Kingdom begins to draw material from the astral world and the nature Spirits generate a kind of loose astral Cloud around the mineral so if you have a piece of gold as we were talking about you will have a loose cloud of of Astral matter around the the gold with no particular form because at the level of the mineral Kingdom it is just this Loosely constituted mass as any person says there then the vegetable Kingdom in this Kingdom of nature the astral body of the plants so or or any vegetable begins to be more organized therefore because it is more organized there is the beginning of feelings that are possible in Plants you know plants feel the sun where the sun is coming from and they can move in that direction slightly they can feel even there are some experiments where it seems that the plants can feel the general emotional atmosphere around and anybody that loves plants they know that if they give love to the plants the plants seem to do better than you know if they don't so in the in the vegetable Kingdom what we call feeling this activity of Consciousness that we call feeling begins to be possible because the astral body which is the one that translates the activity of Consciousness into feelings is more organized in in plant stunning meaning in the animal kingdom the astral body is more developed reaching in the higher members of that Kingdom a sufficiently definite organization to cohere for some time after the death of the physical body and to lead an independent existence on the astral plane in civilized countries these animal astral bodies add much to the general feeling of hostility which was spoken of above for the organized Butchery of animals and slaughterhouses and by sport sends millions of those annually into the astral world full of horror terror and shrinking from Men so in the animal kingdom the astral bodies very well developed therefore we we have very clear feelings and emotions and animals can feel pain and pleasure and and hate and love in a more in a not so intellectual way as we do but um they are developing the ability to to feel more and more precise feelings and that is possible because the astral body of the animal is well organized according to Annie besant the presence of the nervous system in at the level of the physical body is a sign that the astral body is well developed so the the effect of the developing of an organized astral body on the physical plane is the development of a complex nervous system this is why for example the the the animal kingdom and especially the higher are exemplars of the animal kingdom you know pets or or Elephants or Dolphins as opposed to Insects insects are still part of the animal kingdom but if you see their nervous system is is completely different at the level of um the the complexity that response to how developed the astral body is in these different animals and therefore how much pain or pleasure they can feel this is a guide or could could be a guide for the animal Right Movement you know the more developed the uh the the nervous system is the more the per the the animal in this case would feel um pain or pleasure or other feelings so that that's how you in your life also can sometimes people out of compassion for animals they decide to be vegetarian and then somebody else would would say well you are also killing a plant if you eat a plant and of course you are but at the at the level of causing pain or pleasure a plant has a less ability to feel plain or pain or pleasure than an animal does um from an occult point of view in this sense also because the asteroid body is more coherent when the animal dies there is a certain life of that animal on the astral plane because the astral plane can be a a vehicle of Consciousness for a certain period of time and any person says that all these astral the astral body of all these animals that have been killed and that go to the astral plane in this state of fear or anguish or or you know anger because they are being killed all those astral bodies react on the emotional atmosphere of humanity because we all share the same astral plane so if we are producing all sending to the astral plane all these astral bodies of animals in this state of suffering then that comes back to us to our our culture in acts of violence in feelings of depression feelings of anger you know we are just sending out their suffering so this is part of of what any person actually in one book she says in in the early 20th century she was coming to Chicago and suddenly she started feeling all this sadness and she couldn't understand why she it was obvious that he wasn't something she was producing and then when she came to Chicago this was the first time she came it seems that at the time Chicago was famous for the slaughterhouses and she realized that there was all this sad atmosphere around of course she was very sensitive to the astral plane because of the slaughterhouses that were so prominent in Chicago the nature Spirits concerned with the building of the animal and human astral bodies are called desire Elementals because they are strongly animated by desires of all kinds and constantly build themselves into the astral bodies of animals and men they use the varieties of Elemental Essence to construct the astral bodies of animals those bodies acquiring the centers of sensation and of the various passional activities so these elementas as we said they build forms they actually are grafted into our our own body so we have an astral body that is built on the astral matter that is they are in the astral plane available but also the Elementals which are called the desire Elementals these these four these emotional forces let's say that build our body they are also the energy that animates our astral body just like our physical bodies made of cells and the cells are alive and the cells have their own life and if the cells decide to reproduce themselves without any restraint we have a Cancer and that's something that is an activity of the cells themselves not necessarily of ourselves as an organism in the same way our astral body has its own energy its own Consciousness its own activity which comes from the the desired Elementals that build our body now we can attract according to the kind of emotions we have let's say purer or or or less pure desire Elementals by that we mean desired Elementals that thrive in negative emotions or those that thrive in positive emotions according to what kind of of activity in our Consciousness emotional activity we normally have is a kind of element as we attract so same as with the physical body if we eat bad food we generate an unhealthy physical body if we eat bad emotions or or are constantly feeding ourselves with bad emotions we generate an unhealthy astral body we are going to see all this in detail in our next class and it will be mainly about the the the the human astral body and how it is constituted but this is the foundation of why it is so important to keep an eye on our our thoughts and emotions from an esoteric point of view so this is it for today um this is the first part of the chapter on the astral plane so next week we are going to continue with it now is there any question or comment that any wants to to make it can be either using your mic or through the chat box I'm interested when we've man we've man-made elements is it also then infused with our thoughts human thoughts or you know what forms that astral matter what it's made by elements the chemical the table of elements those elements um there are a few yeah there are a few artificial elements that we have generated and not too many and I suppose that when we generate the physical elements we also attract the astral matter that is that is associated with the physical matter now Dora Coons did uh some research on this and she saw that for example crystals that are artificial that are man-made tend to have less energy around that the natural crystals I suppose that one of the reasons is because in nature things develop in a very slow way in a very for a long time so there is time to build into it all these Elemental forces when we generate something artificial is normally generated very fast so probably we we don't give time for the the whole process to happen but then as time passes we can charge objects with our thoughts and emotions so some objects may become talismans if there is an object to which we normally direct our attention and and we Infuse any kind of feeling or thought that object becomes a source of that kind of feeling so if you go to churches you tend to think to feel the peace in the church if it is an old church that has been you know the repository of these feelings for a long time if you go to a new church newly built it's just like a lecture hall you don't feel anything in particular so in time things can be charged either naturally or artificially by by human activity so um maybe for this week I'm not sending practical exercises after the the classes but you know since we are talking about emotions and and feelings if you if you want to practice something this week try to keep an eye on the the emotions that come to you and and pay attention to see if those emotions are produced by your own thinking if they are produced by an external situation or if they just come from within and and then you give them build the story around try to see if you can differentiate the origin of the emotions and in any case whatever the origin is try to see how much you can remain unentangled with the negative emotions you can feel them you can recognize them it's not that you have to repress them but just recognize them as an activity of Consciousness that you don't want to take ownership of so um do that and that whenever we practice something then we can understand it far deeper than when we read the book or listen to a lecture because we are actually beginning to see by first-hand knowledge some aspects of what we discuss so if you feel inclined do that exercise and and begin to to work on this path of self-knowledge