The continuing explanation of this esoteric topic provides some examples and presents information concerning their karmic ramifications, their relation to mantric sounds and how all incarnate forms, from world systems to our incarnations, are the externalised expressions of them. The nature of the manifestation of sicknesses and disease, famines and the like, are also discussed in relation to the mode of their production.

Note that the picture plate figure 9 of the book referenced is said to indicate ‘vague selfish affection’. The problem with the colour plates in the book used, and also the plate section at the front is that they are all too dark and need to be brighter. If for instance you look at the colour for sensuality and selfish affection on the front-page plate then you will see that the main reddish colour is identical in both, or almost so. The colours of figure 9 (that was described, and we have shown) actually indicates a mixture of sensuality with affection, which is the normal for most people concerning their sex lives. The stronger the sensuality the brighter the reddish colour. However, in a brooding sexual desire, then the thought form would be more reddish-brownish colour. If the sexual thoughts were of a highly selfishly focused sexuality, or of a bestial nature then the brownish colouring intensifies. Everything depends upon the intensity of the sexuality, and of the nature of the affection, which changes the colouration accordingly.

The images are found in the book by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater: Thought-Forms. The Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Madras, 1967.

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