Premise
In the volume The source of desire and emotions we talked about the astral plane and the multiform characteristics of the matter that composes it, trying to explain that on that plane that matter is particularly sensitive to those which are the vibrations corresponding to the emotions, so that a strong emotion tried by the individual embodied on the physical plane, through his astral body, it has repercussions on the astral plane, inducing sudden and deceptive transformations on the surrounding astral matter.
How is it possible to make you truly understand what this changing of forms means?
How is it possible to give you the sense of the material that is modeled, merged, molded, suddenly changes colors, in a kaleidoscopic change of its qualities?
Probably only comparing it to the most modern cinematographic techniques and computerized image processing that is carried out more and more on a large scale in the production of your films can bring you relatively close to understanding this amazing adaptation of astral matter to the vibrations of your emotions!
If you think about it, you who live in the present era are, without a doubt, more prepared and able to understand this reality than it has been. io in my last incarnation, since for me, a monk of a few centuries ago, the concept of change and transformation was quite unusual: the characteristics of that present, thanks to the much slower rhythms of life at the time, seemed to have to last in a stable over time, from monarchy to religion, from morality to science; time itself seemed to flow more slowly, providing a particular inner dimension to the human being.
That was certainly not a time of rapid changes like the one you are currently experiencing, in the course of which what is true today in an hour may no longer be true: the brother who lent his work to illuminate a code saw the his days marked by the rhythm with which that small work of art, perhaps a few square centimeters, proceeded over the many days of work needed to bring it to completion. Currently it is possible to perform a work similar to that in a very short time thanks to modern technologies, and this already can give you an idea of the different subjective time dimensions of the two eras.
As it is inevitable, some things have been lost in this frenetic change: for example the exercise of patience, the love for details, the taste for creation in search of the deepest satisfaction that comes from the satisfaction of seeing grow, little at a time, the fruit of his work and his own ingenuity.
The modern conception of life and time brings with it séof course, of the disadvantages but, undoubtedly, also of the advantages, and that of being able to certainly understand, better than I could have done, the protean reality of the astral plane is one of these advantages. Not even you, however, can get the slightest bit close to understanding what happens when, having abandoned the astral plane and its boiling matter, one arrives at observing the reality of mental plane.
The older brothers have assigned me the task of guiding you to try to give you an idea of the reality of this plan… alas, it is like asking a mute to explain the Pythagorean theorem to a blind man!
Forgive me, therefore, if I will not always know how to be adequate to my task or if I will not be able to use in the best and most understandable way for you that great gift that the Absolute wanted to grant to his children: the word.
It reassures me to know that, despite my probable inadequacy for the task they have assigned me, your life will not be damaged even if I fail to make you understand the mental plane and that you will, however, walk your path, as they do, anyway. , all those who never arrive or will never come to find themselves in the presence of the Guides.
On the other hand, if there is one thing that I have learned and believed fully in my life as a monk it is that truly, without any shadow of doubt the ways of the Lord are infinite. Andrea
The mental body, its functions, the origin of thought
Let's go back to what has been said about the astral plane for a moment, trying to underline how much it is also valid for the mental plane and how much, instead, is peculiar only to this plane.
The mental plane is also made up of matter that is being formed thanks to the aggregation of that basic material unit of mental matter that we have defined in the past. elementary unit mental.
The matter of the mental plane - similarly to what we said for the astral plane - can be divided (for theoretical convenience) into seven subplanes classifiable on the basis of the density of the mental matter that composes them. Thus we go from the sub-plane of denser matter (beyond which we arrive at astral matter) to the less dense one (beyond which we arrive at Akasic matter).
Just as the matter of the astral plane possesses the ability to change and transform itself under the pressure of desires and emotions by responding to the emotional stimuli that come from the experience lived on the physical plane, the same happens for the mental plane. In this case, however, it is thought that induces transformations in the mental matter that will promptly respond to every thought emitted by a mental body, bringing into being particular characteristics such as, for example, the possibility, for those who are disembodied and conscious on the mental plane, to be able to get to know everything that in the past of man has been known with the help of the sole thrust of the desire to know.
It is evident that also on this level the drive to act is provided by desire and, therefore, by the needs of the Akasic body: without it the individual would not move and the life of his bodies on the various planes would be extremely static.
Returning for a moment to the sub-planes of the mental plane, we can argue that:
- the lower planes, the denser ones, have an influence mainly on the physical and physiological functions (as well as on the astral ones) of the individual's body as well as on use of language and words,
- while the more subtle ones provide the individual with thinking skills, that is, the skills of elaboration, synthesis, correlation and so on, all those abilities, in short, which usually - for those who are not as familiar with esoteric teaching as you - are erroneously attributed to the brain.
The brain, on the other hand, is not the producer of thought: it constitutes the main point of contact of the physical body with the mental body, it is a sort of receptor, a translator of what the mental body processes, and has the purpose of making it possible for the embodied individual to externalize on the physical and to relate both with external complexity and with personal internal complexity.
It is through the brain (but not only, because the mental matter also directly contacts all the points of the physical body by implementing local mechanisms of physiological self-defense, for example) that the mental body affects the physical body, makes it move and act to following what the thoughts that the mental body has processed cause it to experience in the course of life.
If I asked you what the mental body is for I am sure that all of you would answer that it is used to think and I could only agree, however the mental body is more complex and has other important functions besides that of processing thought, functions that we will observe more come on.
On the other hand, as far as thought is concerned, you could make the mistake that it has its birth, its genesis, within the mental body, while in reality it is not so:
thought is born and is formed under the pressure of the needs of understanding the Akasic and, even more precisely, it is the Akasic vibrations which, interacting with mental matter, set in motion within it that set of vibrations that leads the mental matter to elaborate that form of concatenated data which constitutes what is commonly defined thought.
But we will see later to provide you with a somewhat less than approximate picture of how and why this happens, hoping to be as clear as possible in a field that is difficult to explain by putting it within the reach of individuals chained to physicality.
Of course, what has been said for the astral body is also valid for the mental body: there is amental atmosphere and there is a mental environment; their general characteristics are comparable to what has been said for the astral and physical body (Editor's note: see the volume The source of desire and emotions) and it is not very important to dwell on them more than much, except to emphasize that the amplitude and strength of this environment and this atmosphere are directly related to the quality and strength of the vibrations emitted by the materials that make up the body mind of the embodied individual. Andrea
Readings for the interior: every day, a short spiritual reading of the Ifior Circle and of the Florence 77 Circle, on Whatsapp. To subscribe
Privacy policy of this site to consult before commenting, or subscribing to feeds
A useful review.