Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00671)

Images of the Supreme ---- Thought Forms???

In his book "THE COSMIC WOMB: An Interpretation 
of Man's Relationship to the Infinite," the 
metaphysican Arthur W. Osborn writes:

"Images of the Supreme, although taken for 
the Ultimate by some simple devotees, are more 
readily explicable as projections, either
individual or communal, of doctrinal beliefs 
concerning Krishna, Christ, Kali or other 
personalized aspects of Deity. We
say 'communal' projections because any 
religious symbol, which perhaps for centuries 
has become a focus for devotion, could assume
concrete reality. Occultism provides some 
striking instances of the power of group thinking 
to create 'thought forms' of sufficient
intensity to become 'objects' of perception. 
Centers of energy would seem to have been formed 
on some superphysical plane capable of
exercising influence in physical affairs. . . ." p. 59

Daniel
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