Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00345)

At 06:33 AM 9/10/2004, you wrote:

> Is not reading thought forms generated by someone is reading someone's
> thought? If that be the case, is it not an invasion of privacy unless the
> person who generated the thought gives permission? Did HPB comment on this
> issue in any of her writings?
>
> Anyone cares to comment?
>
> mkr
Since you're inviting comments, I'll throw out a few ideas that occur to me 
in reading your question. It would be interesting to see what others think too.

I'd say that if you're just reading the ideas that someone has put down on 
paper, you're just reinforcing those ideas in the thought atmosphere of the 
earth, making them easier for others to think. A particular set of ideas 
are strengthened as a large number of people think them, until they take on 
archetypal qualities. At that point -- who knows? -- perhaps some being 
could embody itself by giving sentience to that collective image.

I don't think that you would be building a personal relationship with the 
author of the words that you read, unless there was a two-way connection 
between you and the other that already existed. Then your reading the words 
would take you, in your mind's eye, to that person based upon the strength 
of the bond you have to him or her and how much those words carry his or 
her particular swabhava or personal qualities.

-- Eldon