CHAPTER III—THOUGHT FORMS AND EMOTION GENERATED ELEMENTALS

It has been ordained that man, like his God, shall become a creator. The spark of life within him is capable of giving eternal life to the undifferentiated particles existing in Nature. In other words, within man is a touchstone which changes, into a substance like itself, all with which it comes in contact. As the universe is peopled by the sparks from the wheels of God, so the elements of Nature are peopled with the sparks flying out from the wheels of life, twisting and whirling within the lower organisms of Nature. Man is a god in the making—he is much closer to godhood than he realizes or than it is safe for him to know. The infinite desire to create pulses through his blood as it courses through the being of Deity; every moment of his life he is expressing the God like qualities of creation. Not only does he create his kind and perpetuate his species through natural law, but upon the higher planes of Nature he is also creative. As his physical organisms reproduce their kind, so there are other children also born out of his being.

Recalling the four creations from the body of Brahma, we may now say that from the symbolical substances of the feet of Brahma (material earth), the thighs of Brahma (ethereal water), the breast of Brahma (astral fire), and the brain of Brahma (mental air) is fashioned the quaternary vehicle by means of which the spiritual ego is able to function respectively in the physical, ethereal, astral, and mental worlds. Through the medium of the generative powers in the physical world, man assists in forming the physical bodies of his fellow creatures. He is likewise able to direct planes of substance for the expression of other waves of evolving life, purely physical. Upon the third world, where the red man was born out of Brahma, there pours forth, from the Brahma in man, a great stream of creatures built by himself—as much his children as the physical bodies produced in this world. He is as responsible for these as he is for his own flesh and blood which grows up around him in the form of his children and descendants. We do not understand this, because these children are invisible to the normal sight of the physical world. The trained clairvoyant, however, is able to see them, and realizes that as we are peopling this world with children who are to grow into its future citizens, so surely we are peopling the astral plane with the children of our emotions—strange fiery creatures born out of our own emotional body, with its great whirling vortex in the liver. This body is the Lion of the Cherubim, and from it stream forth into the world the offspring of the emotional plane.