Theosophy -- Doctrines; Thought and thinking -- Religious aspects -- Theosophy
_Greed for Drink._--In Fig. 29 we have another variant of the same
passion, perhaps at an even more degraded and animal level. This
specimen was taken from the astral body of a man just as he entered at
the door of a drinking-shop; the expectation of and the keen desire for
the liquor which he was about to absorb showed itself in the projection
in front of him of this very unpleasant appearance. Once more the hooked
protrusions show the craving, while the colour and the coarse mottled
texture show the low and sensual nature of the appetite. Sexual desires
frequently show themselves in an exactly similar manner. Men who give
birth to forms such as this are as yet but little removed from the
animal; as they rise in the scale of evolution the place of this form
will gradually be taken by something resembling that shown in Fig. 13,
and very slowly, as development advances, that in turn will pass through
the stages indicated in Figs. 9 and 8, until at last all selfishness is
cast out, and the desire to have has been transmuted into the desire to
give, and we arrive at the splendid results shown in Figs. 11 and 10.
[Illustration: FIG. 29. GREED FOR DRINK]
VARIOUS EMOTIONS
_At a Shipwreck._--Very serious is the panic which has occasioned the
very interesting group of thought-forms which are depicted in Fig. 30.
They were seen simultaneously, arranged exactly as represented, though
in the midst of indescribable confusion, so their relative positions
have been retained, though in explaining them it will be convenient to
take them in reverse order. They were called forth by a terrible
accident, and they are instructive as showing how differently people are
affected by sudden and serious danger. One form shows nothing but an
eruption of the livid grey of fear, rising out of a basis of utter
selfishness: and unfortunately there were many such as this. The
shattered appearance of the thought-form shows the violence and
completeness of the explosion, which in turn indicates that the whole
soul of that person was possessed with blind, frantic terror, and that
the overpowering sense of personal danger excluded for the time every
higher feeling.
[Illustration: FIG. 30. AT A SHIPWRECK]
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