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‘To exist is not enough, we desire to live intelligently. But to live we must know, and to know we must study; and here is a vast field open before us, if we will only enter upon it and gather thence the fruits of enlightenment. Let us, then, waste no more time in the dark dungeons of ignorance, but come forth boldly into the glorious sunshine of that divine wisdom which in these modern days men call Theosophy.’

‘It is well for us ever to bear in mind that there is a hidden side to life — that each act and word and thought has its consequence in the unseen world which is always so near to us, and that usually these unseen results are of infinitely greater importance than those which are visible to all upon the physical plane’.

‘And if the music be good, the effect of those vibrations cannot but be uplifting to every man upon whose vehicles they play. Thus the community owes a very real debt of gratitude towards the musician who pours forth such helpful influences, for he may affect for good hundreds whom he never saw and will never know upon the physical plane.’

‘It is sadly true that there are many men who are unconsciously using their thought-power chiefly or evil, yet this only makes it all the more necessary that those who are beginning to understand life a little should use it consciously, and use it for good.’

‘Three general principles underlie the production of all though-forms:

1. Quality of thought determines colour.
2. Nature of thought determines form.
3. Definiteness of thought determines clearness of outline.’

‘Yet every such rush of feeling produces a permanent effect: it always adds a little of its hue to the normal colouring of the astral body, so that every time that the man yield himself to a certain emotion it becomes easier for him to yield himself to it again, because his astral body is getting into the habit of vibrating at that especial rate.’

‘Every thought gives rise to a set of correlated vibrations in the matter of the mental body, accompanied with a marvellous play of colour, like that in the spray of a waterfall as the sunlight strikes it. The body under this impulse throws off a vibrating portion of itself, shaped by the nature of the vibrations — as figures are made by sand on a disk vibrating to a musical note.’

‘The mental body is an object of great beauty, the delicacy and rapid motion of its particles giving it an aspect of living indiscent light, and this beauty becomes an extraordinarily radiant and entrancing loveliness as the intellect becomes more highly evolved and is employed chiefly on pure and sublime topics.’

‘A young boy sorrowing over and caressing a dead bird is surrounded by a flood of curved interwoven threads of emotional disturbance. A strong vortex is formed by a feeling of deep sadness. Looking at this most interesting and suggestive series, it is clear that in these pictures that which is obtained is not the thought-image, but the effect caused in etheric matter by its vibrations.’