Vanguard: Leisure & Life Are thoughts really free? Thoughts are usually anchored in the World of Fine Cross Matter which we do not see, hear or touch with our physical senses while the Medium Cross Matter is where our spoken words are anchored. Our earth however, belongs to the Densest or Coarsest Cross Matter that we see, hear and touch. So, are other bodies that we can also see including the sun, the moon, the stars and other heavenly bodies that cannot be visible unless viewed with the most advanced instruments available or can be discovered in the future. Thus, since thoughts are not perceptible with our physical senses, we may be tempted to conclude that we are free to play with them, as we like without responsibility. But we are wrong because thoughts are a form of human activity and must be accounted for and redeemed before we are free to commence our ascent after physical death. These three forms of activity - thoughts, words and deeds are interconnected in their effects. Thoughts, being the finest of the three can, in its automatic working, gain connection with a homogenous anchorage of word forms in the Medium Cross Matter through which a more powerful form is produced. This in turn will subsequently condense to manifest in visible deeds of some human beings in the coarsest World of Matter. Thus, all activities or deeds that arise in the physical world have far-reaching contributions and infact originate from thought forms. Through pressure and condensation, our thoughts produce the quality of a magnetic activity and are able to attract other similar thought forms. This makes them to become stronger and finally emerge beyond us in firmly united power-waves capable of exerting an influence upon our wider environment in the manner described above. In other words, these thoughts, having been strengthened through mutual power of attraction, build for themselves powerful force fields or power centres of homogenous propensities, each of which is connected, to several individuals living in various parts of the world whose thoughts make up the centres. These power centres, mostly, embody propensities for example, of hate, envy, jealousy, lustfulness, avarice, e.t.c, which are usually thickly populated in toady's world. Every thought that is generated immediately takes on form in the beyond, which embodies and expresses the essential meaning of the thought. The Living Creative Power, which flows through man, moulds his thought-forms and gives expression to the will of the thought. It is indeed an act of mercy that our physical eyes are not able to behold the many base propensities of grotesque and reprehensible forms embodied in the power centres populating the world of thought-forms which are firmly connected with us. Yet, these are realities that shape our ethereal environment, which can contribute much to uplift or debase us because its effects reach into our physical world and far down into the realm of darkness. When we consider the events that take place at home and abroad today, we shall be left in no doubt as to the nature of thought-forms that brought them about. And yet, through purer thoughts, we could have build a powerful armour around us to frustrate the penetration of darkness, so, that all these bombings, killings, the so called ethnic cleansing and destruction would not have taken place. So much talks and boasting that have characterised these crises and orchestrated by the media are nothing but the precipitation of thought-forms that we allowed to take effect. Purer thought-forms would have produced different result had we exerted ourselves to create them and save ourselves from self-destructive tendencies of today. Now, an individual, a group of people or a whole nation so connected to one of such power centres may receive retroactively so much intensification of the embodied propensity that they find themselves committing untold devastation in their environment. All those who have contributed to this power centre through their thoughts will share in the reciprocal effect of such devastation in accordance with the Eternal laws of God irrespective of whether they live in different parts of the world. Thus, through ignorance, we participate in many deeds of other people whose connecting threads to the relevant power centre have been so intensified as to bring them to commit such awful deeds. Therefore we are not after all free from responsibilities for our thoughts. It is for these reasons that we must exert ourselves to produce good thoughts always rather than generate thought forms which can float about and may subsequently get attracted to a power-centre that will tie us down to painful experiences. For this reason, we have been admonished to keep the heart of our thoughts pure, by so doing; we shall bring peace and be happy. This makes sense, because pure and joyful thinking can only connect us with a more luminous power centre through which we can contribute more powerfully to the peace and happiness of humanity and as such share in the good works that develop through strangers from other regions of the earth. Thoughts which lack the genuineness of free intuitive volition are usually intellectually willed and as such are pressed into definite channels that are essentially egoistic and self-serving, be it of avid desire for power or other selfish motivation. These are not the work of the spirit and do not arise out of pure intuitive volition, which is boundless and able to well up in us. Thus, the right way of thinking must arise out of an all-embracing urge for what is good and noble which envelops our thoughts and permeates them even before they take on form. What is then produced can safely be left to our intellect to apply in the physical world as pure thoughts that can bring us peace and joy. In this way, we shall become worthy helpers in Creation on whom the high blessings meant for the human spirits will be bestowed so that these blessings may be transformed and passed on to those creatures who are only able to absorb them through such transformation by man. This is part of the joyful activities of a human spirit who has not soiled himself in the denseness of the material world. As of now, far fewer centres for instance of love and purity are generated in the world of thought forms and as such, mankind will continue to be hit by acts of fate that remain difficult to fathom. But we pray for the glorious dawn when we shall resolve to give purity to our thoughts always and generate more luminous centres that can strengthen our striving towards what is good and noble and at the same time work on darker minds with gradually purifying effects. We have been endowed with access to the Living Power of the Most High with which we shape our destinies. It lies in our hands to use it aright to experience peace and joy or to continue to live in hell. Our thoughts are the powerful messengers we send to create the type of environment we must experience. 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