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    The Cosmic Doctrine
    The Cosmic Doctrine
    The Cosmic Doctrine
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    The Cosmic Doctrine

    By Dion Fortune

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    Over seventy-two years ago, beginning at the Vernal Equinox in Glastonbury, Fortune started receiving communications from the Inner Planes concerning the creation of the universe, the evolution of humanity, natural law, the evolution of consciousness, and the nature of mind. This is her record, in a revised edition, and includes previously unpublished material that is still relevant today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJan 15, 2000
    ISBN9781609254445
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      The Cosmic Doctrine - Dion Fortune

      INTRODUCTION II

      HOW COMMUNICATION WAS EFFECTED

      A Statement by One of the Communicating Entities.

      "Communication is performed by telepathy, that is all. Precisely the same means are used in transferring thought from a discarnate mind to an incarnate mind as are employed in transferring thought between two incarnate minds. Certain technical difficulties exist, however, and to make it clear we will first explain how thought is transferred between incarnate minds.

      Briefly, a thought-form is built by methods we will not enter upon now, and this thought-form is ensouled by a substance from a plane above that upon which it is constructed. This makes it a living thing of its type. It is then cast off from the aura of its creator, and in the ordinary way will hang about in his atmosphere. If he is dwelling on the subject, a thread of subtle matter will connect it with his vehicle, and those who can see it will perceive these thought-forms, either embedded in the aura awaiting expulsion, or hovering around like children's kites upon shorter or longer strings; up to about twelve feet long these strings may be. As he moves they stream out behind and above him, and as he stands, they hover around, endued each with life of their own, and they endure as definite entities until the form in which they are ensouled wears out and falls away. Whereupon the life that is within them is reabsorbed into the substance of their creator.

      So much for the undirected thought, to which no attention is paid. Should, however, a thought be conceived in relation to a definite object, then it will have a dual relationship. Firstly to the person conceiving it, and secondly to the object of his thought, and instead of remaining in the neighbourhood of the former, it will be directed to the neighbourhood of the latter, there to hover, though still connected with its originator by a tenuous thread, coloured according to type. Having arrived in the neighbourhood of its object, it impinges on the aura, beating out the rhythm with which it is endowed.

      Now, as you know, rhythm and geometrical form are closely associated. Thus a note of particular tone produced by vibrating the edge of a disc will cause particles of sand scattered upon that disc, to arrange themselves along the intersecting lines of force thus generated, and so form patterns. So, if the particles composing the body corresponding to that particular plane upon which the thought-form is projected, can be caused to vibrate to the rhythm emitted by that thought-form, these particles will be arranged along the lines of force thus set up, and the corresponding form created within the vehicle. Into this form the life of the old form passes, the old form falls to pieces and the tenuous thread has then found lodgement within the being of the object of the thought, linking him to the originator of the thought. Thus is thought-transference done.

      It is a simple matter to transfer thought upon the 2nd and 3rd planes, thereby generating moods in the minds of the object of thoughts, these moods being of some duration; but it is a very different matter to transfer thought upon the 4th and 5th planes. The 4th plane is the most difficult of all to work upon, and work can only be done with those individuals who have learnt to detach a portion of their substance and keep it in a loose and unattached condition, so that it can take form in response to impacts from without. Moreover, if ideas of any complexity are to be transmitted, it is not enough that simple images should lie loose in the mind awaiting re-combination into composite form, it is necessary that a great and complex variety of images be available.

      Transmitting images in colour and form upon the second plane may be likened to writing with a phonetic alphabet, but transmitting ideas upon the third plane may be likened to writing with an ideographic alphabet, such as the Chinese use, where each idea has a corresponding symbol, and unless that symbol be known cannot be written. Thus a Chinese scholar needs to know a very large number of picture-signs if he is to express himself freely.

      Now the average uncultured mind that lends itself for the transmission of messages from one plane to another has but few ideographs, and these only relate to the happenings of daily life, therefore only simple messages can be sent through him; but a mind of greater culture and calibre can transmit profounder concepts.

      To sum up, the mind has to contain a large and varied assortment of ideas, which the communicator causes to combine into new concepts, and it is very rare to find a mind in which there is a large assortment of ideas that is sufficiently fluidic to be used in this way. A well-stocked mind tends to combine its contents into organised complexes, and then the complexes form units which have to be stimulated as a whole and can only function according to their own nature and cannot be re-combined to express new ideas.

      Thus, supposing a man has strong ideas, shall we say, concerning social reform, this complex can have force poured into it and be caused to function as a whole, and that man will become a great social reformer along the lines of his preconceived notions, but he will not be able to present to the world new ideas concerning social

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