50 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
dense bodies. When that stage is reached we shall all
have the power to function in the desire body as we
now do in the dense body.
The Mind
In the Atlantean Epoch of the Earth Period the
Lords of Mind radiated from themselves into our being
the nucleus of material from which we are now seeking
to build an organized mind. It was given to man to
give purpose to action, but as the Ego was exceedingly
weak and the desire nature strong, the nascent mind
coalesced with the desire body; the faculty of Cunning
resulted and was the cause of all the wickedness of the
middle third of the Atlantean Epoch.
The mind, being the last of man’s vehicles built, is
not yet even a body. It is simply a link, a sheath for the
use of the Ego as a focusing point. It is however, the
most important instrument possessed by the Spirit, and
its special instrument in the work of creation. We
ourselves, as Egos, function directly in the subtle
substance of the Region of Abstract Thought, which
we have specialized within the periphery of our
individual aura. Thence we view the impressions made
by the outer world upon the vital body through the
senses, together with the feeling and emotions
generated by them in the desire body, mirrored in the
mind.
From these mental images we form our
conclusions, in the substance of the Region of Abstract
Thought, concerning the subjects with which they deal.
These conclusions are ideas. By the power of will we
project an idea through the mind, where it takes
concrete shape as a thought-form by drawing mind-