Your effort to know yourself could take you into many fields of scientific endeavor. Let’s spend a moment with a biologist in her laboratory.
Perhaps she places a drop of water from a pool onto a microscopic slide. She patiently observes and is rewarded with the discovery of the first single-celled form of animal life. She watches this amoeba, a minute irregular shaped mass of protoplasm, contact another infinitesimal speck of life, encircle it, and absorb it into its body as food.
Further study reveals that this simple organism moves by the contraction of its whole body, breathes altogether, and reproduces itself by division. You could say that it feels pleasure when it contacts food and receives it into itself; and feels pain when the irritating contact of a particle of sand causes a revulsion, a withdrawing contraction of its floating mass. The biologist will note all the phenomena but will probably not agree with your deductions.
However, this barely visible jot of life has an astral counterpart which stores the states of consciousness associated with all its experiences.
Your complex human experience is a far reach from its primitive life existence.
Many of the life-forms which would constitute complete steps in the process of evolution are missing, but in all the myriads of known living creatures, practically the same operations can be observed.
As a life-form naturally advances and has experiences with reproduction the cells of its body are given specialized work to do.
New organs are formed, or more effective ones developed. One of the most remarkable of these was the spinal cord ending in a small centralizing agency which we call the brain.
Succeeding generations, slowly but surely, gradually develop this brain both in size and ability. It took millions of years to bring it to the present human state.
The point in the whole story is that a human being today is made up of billions of cells which in every instance derive from only one and each cell knows exactly what to do. In other words, they have acquired a routine intelligence.
Under the guidance of the unconscious mind, they all must work together for the manifestation of the whole according to their conditioning in the past.
The independent exercise of the intelligence of cells and groups of cells can be demonstrated in the laboratory. Separated from the body in which they once lived, if provided with a suitable environment, they will perform the same function and just as efficiently before removal.
Dr Alexis Carrel* has kept a piece of a chicken’s heart alive for years. It has to be fed, washed and trimmed to proper limits, otherwise 1t would assume enormous proportion. The cells go on and on reproducing. They continue to act to the extent of their intelligence. Whole organs, such as lungs, liver and glands have been sustained alive for many days.
The important thing to remember is that this unit and group activity, this complicated human mechanism and its highly technical routine, is the expression on the physical plane of the corresponding thought cells and thought structures of the astral realm, for the finer astral body has been built up to this advanced stage through every experience in past existences.
Now thought-cells and thought-structures exist on another plane. In addition to their correspondence with, and control of, physical activity they too have an independent intelligence, which they exercise in their own realm.
An astral organization is a set of desire tensions striving for release.
The astral and the physical expression of any life-form are one, so that whatever independent action of the thought-cells and thought compounds takes place in the fourth dimension, it will eventually affect the physical life when planetary energies and environment facilitate release.
This is why you find yourself in certain situations, or suddenly meeting people who influence your life, attracting accidents or diseases, sometimes vibrating to success, sometimes to failure.
Your astral body is in touch with every other astral body or condition having a similar vibratory rate, and whatever stellar cells aka thought-cells and stellar structures aka though-compounds are most powerful at the time tune in on corresponding energies.
The stronger their activity the more outstanding is the event attracted.
When it is remembered that action between the astral realm and the physical state is so rapid as to appear instantaneous to your human senses, you can easily conceive why you have so many experiences which your slow-moving physical planning never expected yet seem to be the natural outcome of your own activity.
However, nothing happens to you or any one which is not controlled by the total action of the unconscious mind. It has certain power over the automatic functions of the body, breathing, circulation of the blood, the digestive system, and so on; but beyond this, in matters which you seemingly ‘will to do’, its influence is just as complete though you are hardly aware of its power.
The little awareness you do have is called the conscious knowing or objective consciousness. Here, you are in the mental and emotional strata, and this is the avenue through which your unconscious mind continues to build itself.
Every thought, every emotional response, is flashed back in terms of energy current to its particular place in your astral body; and its vibratory level is either raised or lowered.
Stellar cells and stellar structures receive the energy for better or for worse. It’s then stored until physical conditions and planetary radiations synchronize stimulating its release into the everyday happenings of your complex existence. It’s given back back to you in terms of health or disease, success or failure or riches or poverty.
So, your thoughts and emotional reactions are of utmost importance and as a human you are given to reflection.
The development of conscious awareness in all its phases – observation, comparison, experiment, the why of cause and effect, deduction of facts, the formulation of laws and principles – is the expression of routine intelligence. Yet some people provide proof that nature can be worked on although the effect is not direct.
After long and intense training some people can stop the blood from circulating, or increase the supply of gastric juices to the stomach, merely by willing to do so. But common fear and anger thoughts with their attendant emotions can have paralyzing physical effects; and the impulsive action to rescue a loved one from danger is so rapid as to appear automatic.
In each instance the response is the indirect action of past thoughts and feelings upon future happenings and as the effect requires a previously supplied cause it should be given consideration
The release of accumulated desire-energy finds expression in physical effects. Your astral body is thought-built. If you do not want the results you are getting in life you must find the thought cause and change it. You can control your thoughts and change your emotions. But which thought and which emotion shall you change? Mental alchemy will teach you.
*Dr. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) was a French surgeon and biologist. He made significant contributions to medical science including pioneering new techniques for suturing blood vessels; inventing the first perfusion pump (with aviator Charles Lindberg) which paved the way for organ transplantation; and pioneering in tissue culture and how cells grow and function. In 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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