Have you ever felt stuck in your own negative thought forms?
Mechanics of Thought Forms: A Practical Guide to Mental Self-Mastery
Core Lessons on Thought Forms
- Your thoughts automatically create invisible structures around you. These can help or harm.
- Most people build weak thought forms by accident. But as you grow stronger, your mental power grows too.
- Without clear rules, you can trap yourself in a prison made by your own mind.
- Simple guidelines work better than complex theories. Start with basic steps.
- Words and speech reveal your hidden thought forms. Watch what you say.
Why Clear Thinking Becomes Necessary
The necessity for clear thinking and the elimination of idle, destructive, and negative thoughts becomes increasingly apparent as the aspirant progresses on his way. As the power of the mind increases and the human being increasingly differentiates his thoughts from mass thought, he inevitably builds thought substance into form. It is at first automatic and unconscious. He cannot help so doing, and fortunately, for the race, the forms constructed are so feeble that they are largely innocuous, or so in line with mass thought that they are negligible in their effect.
The Danger of Growing Power Without Wisdom
But as man evolves, his power and his capacity to harm or to also help increase. Unless he learns to build rightly, and correctly to motivate that which he has built, he will become a destructive agency and a center of harmful force -- destroying and harming not only himself, as we shall see shortly, but equally hurting and harming those who vibrate to his note.
The Beginner's Question About Simple Rules
Granted all this, you might appropriately inquire: Are there any simple rules that the earnest and sincere beginner could apply to this science of building, so clear and concise that they will produce the needed effect? There are, and I will state them simply so that the beginner will, if he follows them, escape the dangers of black magic, and learn to build in line with the Plan. He will, if he follows the rules I give, avoid the intricate problem which he has himself blindly constructed, and which will indeed shut out the light of day, darken his world, and imprison him in a wall of forms which will embody for him his peculiar great illusion.
Why Simple Rules Work for the Willing
These rules may sound too simple for the learned aspirant, but for those who are willing to become like little children, they will be found to be a safe guide to truth and will eventually enable them to pass the tests for adepts. Some are couched in terms symbolic; others are necessarily blinded. Still, others express the truth just as it is.
Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul on Thought Forms
The First Six Rules for Building Thought Forms
1. View the world of thought, and separate the false out of the true.
2. Learn the meaning of illusion, and in its midst, locate the golden thread of truth.
3. Control the body of emotion, for the waves that rise upon the stormy seas of life, engulf the swimmer, shut out the sun and render all plans futile.
4. Discover that thou hast a mind and learn its dual use.
5. Concentrate the thinking principle, and be the master of thy mental world.
6. Learn that the thinker and his thought, and that which is the means of thought, are diverse in their nature, yet one in ultimate reality.
Rules Seven Through Nine: The Right Use of Thought
7. Act as the thinker, and learn it is not right to prostitute thy thought to the base use of separative desire.
8. The energy of thought is for the good of all and the furtherance of the Plan of God. Use it not therefore for thy selfish ends.
9. Before a thought form is by thee constructed, envision its purpose, ascertain its goal, and verify the motive.
Rule Ten: Cleaning Must Come Before Building
10. For thee, the aspirant on the way of life, the way of conscious building is not yet the goal. The work of cleaning out the atmosphere of thought, of barring fast the doors of thought to hate and pain, to fear, and jealousy and low desire, must first precede the conscious work of building. See to thy aura, oh traveler on the way.
Rules Eleven and Twelve: Guarding the Gates
11. Watch close the gates of thought. Sentinel desire. Cast out all fear, all hate, all greed. Look out and up.
12. Because thy life is mostly centered on the plane of concrete life, thy words and speech will indicate thy thought. To these pay close attention.
Rule Thirteen Part 1: Idle and Selfish Words
Speech is a triple kind. The idle words will each produce the effect. If good and kind, naught need be done. If otherwise, the paying of the price cannot long be delayed. The selfish words, sent forth with strong intent, build up a wall of separation. A long time it takes to break that wall and so release the stored-up, selfish purpose. See to thy motive, and seek to use those words which blend thy little life with the large purpose of the will of God.
Rule Thirteen Part 2: Hateful and Cruel Speech
The word of hate, the cruel speech which ruins those who feel the spell, the poisonous gossip, passed along because it gives a thrill -- these words kill the flickering impulses of the soul, cut at the roots of life, and so bring death. If spoken in the light of day, just retribution will be the result; when spoken and then registered as lies, they strengthen that illusory world in which the speaker lives, and hold him back from liberation. If uttered with intent to hurt, to bruise and kill, they wander back to him who sent them forth, and him they bruise and kill.
Rule Fourteen: Thoughts Rendered Into Words
The idle thought, the selfish thought, the cruel, hateful thought, if rendered into word, produce a prison, poison all the springs of life, lead to disease, and cause disaster and delay. Therefore, be sweet and kind and good as far as in thee lies. Keep silence, and the light will enter in.
Rule Fifteen: Forgetting the Self
Speak not of self. Pity, not thy fate. The thought of self and of thy lower destiny, prevent the inner voice of thine own soul from striking upon thine ear. Speak to the soul; enlarge upon the plan; forget thyself in building for the world. Thus is the law of form offset. Thus can the rule of love enter that world." (A Treatise on White Magic, p. 472/5)
Final Thoughts on Thought Forms
You are always building thought forms whether you know it or not. That is just how the mind works. But you have a choice. You can build by accident and end up trapped in a prison of your own making. Or you can learn the rules. You can practice clear thinking and conscious building step by step. Start with cleaning. Learn to separate false from true in the world of thought. Master your emotions before you build. Watch your words. And remember the final rule: forget yourself. Build for the world. That is how you turn the science of building into a path of freedom, not a cage of illusion.
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