The value of any experience is the profit you derive from it in knowledge, ability, wisdom and love. Your daily life provides a hundred episodes from dawn to dusk. Some are happy events, others are unhappy, but in each a great number of thoughts take an active part. These thoughts are colored by the feeling displayed or endured.
If it is a painful or unpleasant contact, the prevailing thoughts are embedded with pain. If the situation is enjoyed and results in happiness, the activated thoughts are impregnated with pleasure.
How often have you handled a situation poorly, becoming angry, disgusted, fearful, torn between two ideas, 1rritable, spiteful, and so on. Perhaps just as often you have been helpful, loving, courteous, generous, peaceful and agreeable.
Whatever feeling energy was present had a directing power in forming a mental compound. This feeling and its power is called conditioning energy, for it unites the mental elements traveling to your astral body with mental elements already established in its own special manner.
Even elements which assimilate at the same time combine according to the pleasure of pain experienced. This process has been going on in previous life forms, long before your human existence. The accumulated energy of these compounds has resulted in certain deep and strong traits of character.
They are found in all the kingdoms of nature, mineral, plant, animal, and human. Whether called properties, qualities, or reactions, they are definite energies within your astral constitution seeking expression as environment provides opportunity. They may not have been expressible in words.
Professor Boss* in a book entitle ‘Response in the living and non-living’ shows ‘that a bar of metal is irritable and sensitive somewhat like the human body, and that it may be poisoned or killed much as may a human being.’
Language is a recently manufacture system by which we express our feelings and record our observations. Being a process for communication and analysis progress without it would have been painfully slow.
We therefore say the thoughts you think and the feeling energy bound up in them are mostly additional powers strengthening already established compunds.
Astrologically considered there are ten ways in which any two mental elements can combine. These are read as aspects in chart delineation, but it is essential to keep ln mind that they represent thought compounds. Here’s an example.
An obstacle (square) compound signifies a uniting of thought elements at a time when problems and difficulties were present and accepted as frustration. This is a painful, unpleasant experience. The situation has not been settled satisfactorily. It registered in your mind with that frustration type of feeling energy predominating. And, as previously mentioned, such an organization of energy has a tremendous desire to release itself in a manner indicated by its own particular nature.
If you concede that your finer astral body is in direct contact with physical expression, you could readily expect this energy to repeat its activity in a similar manner when the environmental conditions open the channel.
Experience, whether fortunate or unfortunate, is the result of identical thought activity and in order to offset a recurrence of a discordant situation the feeling energy accompanying the event must be deliberately changed from discordant to harmonious. This is the beginning of wisdom and power.
*Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose was a Bengal polymath, physicist and biologist who found that non-living matter exhibits similar responses to stimuli as both animal and plant matter. His discovery challenged the conventional view that only living organisms respond to external influences. He also found that everything exists in the field of consciousness which implies that even non-living entities have a form of awareness or responsiveness. His book ‘Response in the Living and Non-Living’ was published in 1902. It can be read online at the Gutenberg Project or Internet Archive.
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