Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01071)

Also Annie Besant gives a vision of this.
Christina






--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
> 
> In his book "THE COSMIC WOMB: An Interpretation
> of Man's Relationship to the Infinite," the
> metaphysican Arthur W. Osborn writes:
> 
> "Images of the Supreme, although taken for
> the Ultimate by some simple devotees, are more
> readily explicable as projections, either
> individual or communal, of doctrinal beliefs
> concerning Krishna, Christ, Kali or other
> personalized aspects of Deity. We
> say 'communal' projections because any
> religious symbol, which perhaps for centuries
> has become a focus for devotion, could assume
> concrete reality. Occultism provides some
> striking instances of the power of group thinking
> to create 'thought forms' of sufficient
> intensity to become 'objects' of perception.
> Centers of energy would seem to have been formed
> on some superphysical plane capable of
> exercising influence in physical affairs. . . ." p. 59
> 
> Daniel
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