Thought-Life, The Astral Body and The Path of Return

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Astral substance consists of astral atoms. It is the primordial substance, the Cosmic Root-Substance encountered throughout the Universe, which made the classical Rosicrucians say: There Is No Empty Space. An astral field is a concentration of astral atoms. Concentrations of primordial substance are found through out space, in most cases initially in some sort of spherical form. Such a field comes into being by means of a force. An idea, for instance, is such a force. Even a passing thought causes a densification, a concentration of astral atoms. A series of ideas thus exercises a considerable power. Atoms of primordial substance are extremely sensitive. They react immediately, for they are part of the Fundamental Nature, the building blocks of the entire universe.

In this way, a human being draws around himself an astral field which conforms to his mentality. We all possess a certain mentality. All of us have a thought-life, and the astral field particular to us, our astral body, corresponds to it entirely. It is of the same nature, the same value; indeed there are even moments when it possesses a form corresponding to the idea being radiated, or even to the form of the originator, for atoms of primordial substance are extremely malleable and can instantly take on a form corresponding to the forces motivating them.

From time to time, for instance during the night when the material body is asleep, the personal astral field takes on the shape of your being. That is why it is correct to speak of the astral body. You will now understand that the vibratory level of your astral body determines the forces you attract or repel. Thus the vibratory factor always constitutes the preserving or ejecting elements of your astral field.

If your mentality, your thought-life, is of high quality and value, if your thoughts are genuinely pure, then your astral body, your own particular astral field, will take on a higher vibration. The more subtle your thought-life, the more pure and uplifted your thoughts, the higher will be the vibration of your astral field. For instance, at the moment your thoughts are on a high level because you are being carried along with us in the spiritual streams of The Alchemical Wedding and you feel linked with them, your astral body will have taken up a correspondingly high vibration and you will immediately experience its serenity. At this same moment you have become insusceptible and inaccessible to all influences of a lower or opposing vibration and can only receive that which corresponds with your current vibration-factor.

If -- and this applies particularly to pupils as a group -- you raise yourself to a higher astral vibration in this way, then an openness to the radiations of the Brotherhood will develop. Anyone can understand that. And thus your ultimate Freedom or lack of Freedom lies entirely in your own hands. Through the pure, New Way of Life, which must be based on true soul-quality, you can raise the vibration factor of your astral body to an ever-increasing extent. Only in this way can you leave behind the lower levels and enter the higher planes of astral serenity, and taste their fruits. Walking The Path is nothing more than the course of development resulting from the raising of the astral vibration-factor of your being, through the New Way of Life, by consistent new directedness.

From "The Astral Criterion" Esoteric Analysis of The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, Vol. 1 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Like attracts like. A person is what he or she thinks, in the astral sense. One may be able to put on a façade for the world, but in the astral realm, all is unmasked. The true nature of a person is exposed like an open book.

Thus one will always attract astral forces to themselves that are in line with their astral nature. If you wish to have any hope of ascending the rungs of the ladder of progress on the Path of Return, your thinking, your thought-life, must be purified and raised to a higher level. One must reject the old, self-centered way of Thinking, Feeling and Willing. This requires a conscious effort and quiet resolve to follow the fivefold Gnosis and persist in a New Attitude of Life, which is highlighted by a practical self-forgetfulness and of an impersonal Love for all humanity. The fore-going should not be expressed simply in words, but by deeds which will serve as true Demonstrations of Love all day, every day, for as long as you live on this earth.

Man, control thy thoughts. Consistently aim your focus on the purification of the thought-life and reap the astral benefits that will strengthen your link with the Gnosis.

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