Theosophy -- Doctrines; Thought and thinking -- Religious aspects -- Theosophy
_Vague Pure Affection._--Fig. 8 is a revolving cloud of pure affection,
and except for its vagueness it represents a very good feeling. The
person from whom it emanates is happy and at peace with the world,
thinking dreamily of some friend whose very presence is a pleasure.
There is nothing keen or strong about the feeling, yet it is one of
gentle well-being, and of an unselfish delight in the proximity of
those who are beloved. The feeling which gives birth to such a cloud is
pure of its kind, but there is in it no force capable of producing
definite results. An appearance by no means unlike this frequently
surrounds a gently purring cat, and radiates slowly outward from the
animal in a series of gradually enlarging concentric shells of rosy
cloud, fading into invisibility at a distance of a few feet from their
drowsily contented creator.
[Illustration: FIG. 8. VAGUE PURE AFFECTION]
_Vague Selfish Affection._--Fig. 9 shows us also a cloud of affection,
but this time it is deeply tinged with a far less desirable feeling. The
dull hard brown-grey of selfishness shows itself very decidedly among
the carmine of love, and thus we see that the affection which is
indicated is closely connected with satisfaction at favours already
received, and with a lively anticipation of others to come in the near
future. Indefinite as was the feeling which produced the cloud in Fig.
8, it was at least free from this taint of selfishness, and it therefore
showed a certain nobility of nature in its author. Fig. 9 represents
what takes the place of that condition of mind at a lower level of
evolution. It would scarcely be possible that these two clouds should
emanate from the same person in the same incarnation. Yet there is good
in the man who generates this second cloud, though as yet it is but
partially evolved. A vast amount of the average affection of the world
is of this type, and it is only by slow degrees that it develops towards
the other and higher manifestation.
[Illustration: FIG. 9. VAGUE SELFISH AFFECTION]
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