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much higher realm. In this reflecting ether no thoroughly
trained clairvoyant cares to read, as the pictures are blurred
and vague compared to those found in the higher realm.
Those who read in the reflecting ether are generally those
who have no choice, who, in fact, do not know in what they
are reading. As a rule ordinary psychometrists and mediums
obtain their knowledge through the reflecting ether. To some
slight extent the pupil of the occult school in the first stages
of his training also reads in the reflecting ether, but he is
warned by his teacher of the insufficiencies of this ether as a
means of acquiring accurate information, so that he does not
easily draw wrong conclusions.
This ether is also the medium through which thought
makes an impression upon the human brain. It is most
intimately connected with the fourth subdivision of the
World of Thought. This is the highest of the four
subdivisions contained in the Region of Concrete Thought
and is the homeworld of the human mind. There a much
clearer version of the memory of nature is found than in the
reflecting ether.
THE DESIRE WORLD.Like the Physical World, and every other realm of
nature, the Desire World has the seven subdivisions called
“Regions,” but unlike the Physical World, it does not have
the great divisions corresponding to the Chemical and
Etheric Regions. Desire-stuff in the Desire World persists
through its seven subdivisions or regions as material for the
embodiment of desire. As the Chemical Region is the realm
of form and as the Etheric Region is the home of the forces
carrying on life activities in those forms, enabling them to
live, move and propagate, so the forces in the Desire World,