Astral Plane of the Archaeus and the Creative Power of

the Imagination
One of the easiest ways to understand the nature of the astral plane or astral light, in
purely practical terms, is to consider the plastic quality of the mind to form (organize
into a pattern) what looks like sidereal essence or material light into forms that mimic
and represent potential realities through the faculty of the imagination or what some
call the minds eye or 3rd-eye, which are all names for the same idea. The faculty of the
imagination is operated by thoughts as words spoken internally that represent ideas as
living forms or archetypes. As we think, and form self-dialogue, we imagine the reality
of our thoughts as living images, scenarios, scenes, and landscapes that either stem
from memory as associated correspondences, or out of ideas that were a part of our
formative learning.

As we think we imagine, and the substance of our imagination forms transparent or

clear images that are superimposed over the outer reality. We can stare off into space, or
simply look at something in our material environment, while shifting our awareness off
the objects themselves, and into internal movie-like ideas thats playing out in our
mind simultaneously parallel to them. While we can clearly see this movie-like reality,
which, though vague and impressionistic in terms of material qualities, is very vivid in
terms of meaning and feelings. The senses used to produce these inward movie-like
images are of an invisible nature (just as light, thought and the mind itself are invisible),
and not perceived in outer sensory terms, but rather as inner feelings that form more of
a direct, immediate, and intimate experience of what originates as a common,
impersonal, or universal idea.

The substance of these imagined images, which though see-able, are translucent and
more like an impression imprinted over or existing simultaneously with the outer,
mundane reality, looks very similar to looking through glass that has a reflection on it,
or looking at the image reflected off of a dark metallic surface. The actual appearance of
these images, comes as more of a neutral or greyish substance, where colors are more
like a tinted film laid over a neutral base, or as a subtle aura emanating from them as
the shimmering atmosphere or scent they produce, giving them a luminescent quality,
where the colors are felt inwardly as a psychological and emotional state, rather than
as having distinct or precise physical characteristics. Astral light, often referred to as the
luminiferous ether, or akasa field, is comprised of vibration as archetypal essence that
forms the inner state, nature, or germ of all material form, and is what gives it the
qualities, characteristics and behavioral tendencies it naturally takes on and outwardly
displays.

This luminescent substance thats shaped in the mind by the mind through words as
thoughts, forming the material reality of those thoughts as symbolic correspondences, is
the astral light of the astral plane, which exists within all outer appearances as
potential for physical manifestations. This substance, like light itself, is invisible and not
seen when existing in the outer reality, is called forth through a shift in perception from
the outer to the inner. When we self-reflect and concentrate our mind on an idea, we
shape that idea into an actual reality as a possibility that becomes a thought-form as a
personal creation or interpretation. Thought-forms created by concentrating on an idea
for extended periods of time while infusing them with strong emotions, exist on the
astral plane of pure thought as an actual entity that develops electromagnetic
properties, and becomes a form of living memory as a virtual reality, or is shaped out of
an existing memory as its offspring, forming a variation of the original memory,
modified through adaptation which customizes it.

The mind shapes the astral light into imagined forms as memory, while also possessing
the ability to tune into and act as the receiver for various forms of memory that the
astral field is already populated with as a form of thought transmission of mass
consciousness, or what Carl Jung coined the collective unconscious. Personal
memory, while we like to believe its an accurate depiction and translation of an actual
event, is, in reality, a personal creation by how we (re)imagine it and reinterpret it to tell
a story about that makes it mean something. The outer events of our life stimulate an
inner representation of the outer event as a personal and unique creation, that
originated out of a group or objective event by restructuring it. This interpretation as a
personal creation becomes the creative template for transforming all actual realities into
correlating internal realities. These internal realities are then impressed over the outer
and viewed through the lens of the mind as an invisible template that forms our
perception of the outer world as analogous correspondences to our inner world.

Thought-forms as memory exist as archetypes and prototypes that provide structural

templates for producing personalized realities as our creative style by how we handle
our subject (whatever that subject may be). Everyone is comprised of a formula of
archetypal energies as interlaced vibratory frequencies that make up the inner nature of
our soul, which becomes the template as a dynamic theme for creating reality through
internal representations that become a form of mental map or navigation system that
represent the outer world in symbolic terms. Energy as vibration has a structuring
mechanism in it that composes astral light (photons) into distinct forms with
pronounced attributes and qualities that form the characteristics it takes on. Every
object of the material world is accompanied by an astral double (soul) as its inner nature
that produces (generates) its outer form and animates it with distinct and unique
properties. This is the basic principle for what we call mind-over-matter, which is the
minds (souls) ability to organize the elements of astral light (essence of matter) into
archetypal patterns that serve as a vehicle or instrument for consciousness to express
through as an individual being that ultimately undergoes the self-perpetuating process
of regeneration through self-expression and how they use their own thoughts and
feelings to shape the material world as a direct reflection.

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