MAN AND THEMETHOD OFEVOLUTION 91
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When the work designed for such a projected thought-
form has been accomplished, or its energy expended in vain
attempts to achieve its object, it gravitates back to its
creator, bearing with it the indelible record of the journey.
Its success or failure is imprinted on the negative atoms of
the reflecting ether of its creator's vital body, where it forms
that part of the record of the thinker's life and action which
is sometimes called the subconscious mind.
This record is much more important than the memory to
which we have conscious access, for the latter is made up
from imperfect and illusive sense-perceptions and is the
voluntary memory or conscious mind.
The involuntary memory or subconscious mind comes
into being in a different way, altogether beyond our control
at present. As the ether carries to the sensitive film in the
camera an accurate impression of the surrounding landscape,
taking in the minutest detail regardless of whether the
photographer has observed it or not, so the ether contained
in the air we inspire carries with it an accurate and detailed
picture of all our surroundings. Not only of material things,
but also the conditions existing each moment within our
aura. The slightest thought, feeling or emotion is transmitted
to the lungs, where it is injected into the blood. The blood is
one of the highest products of the vital body as it is the
carrier of nourishment to every part of the body, and the
direct vehicle of the Ego. The pictures it contains are
impressed upon the negative atoms of the vital body, to
serve as arbiters of the man's destiny in thepostmortem
state.
The memory (or so-called mind), both conscious and
subconscious, relateswholly to the experiences of this life. It