Theosophy -- Doctrines; Thought and thinking -- Religious aspects -- Theosophy
_Sympathy and Love for all._--Hitherto we have been dealing chiefly with
forms which are the expression of emotion, or of such thought as is
aroused within the mind by external circumstances. We have now to
consider some of those caused by thoughts which arise from within--forms
generated during meditation--each being the effect produced by a
conscious effort on the part of the thinker to form a certain
conception, or to put himself into a certain attitude. Naturally such
thoughts are definite, for the man who trains himself in this way learns
how to think with clearness and precision, and the development of his
power in this direction shows itself in the beauty and regularity of the
shapes produced. In this case we have the result of an endeavour on the
part of the thinker to put himself into an attitude of sympathy and love
towards all mankind, and thus we have a series of graceful lines of the
luminous green of sympathy with the strong roseate glow of affection
shining out between them (Fig. 37). The lines are still sufficiently
broad and wide apart to be easily drawn; but in some of the higher
examples of thought-forms of this type the lines are so fine and so
close that no human hand can represent them as they really are. The
outline of this thought-form is that of a leaf, yet its shape and the
curve of its lines are more suggestive of a certain kind of shell, so
that this is another example of the approximation to forms seen in
physical nature which we noted in commenting upon Fig. 16.
[Illustration: FIG. 37. SYMPATHY AND LOVE FOR ALL]
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