88 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
In the waking state these vehicles are all together. They
interpenetrate one another as the blood, the lymph, and other
juices of the body interpenetrate. Thus is the Ego enabled to
act in the Physical World.
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
feelings and emotions generated by them in the desire body,
and 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. Those conclusions are ideas. By the power of will we
project an idea through the mind, where it takes concrete