156 Evolution of Life and Form. 



which, modern science does not say much, beyond 

 giving yon the forms and contents, and these are the 

 links between consciousness in the physical body 

 and in the sensory body. Then come the chakras 

 already spoken of as the centres for the working of 

 consciousness in the astral body. A similar process 

 goes on in the mental body under the action of 

 thought-impulses, and there we have also an organ- 

 ised body able to respond to different kinds of 

 thought, and thus to serve consciousness as its organ 

 for expression in the mental world. As we grow 

 mentally we build our organs for consciousness. 



Coming to this building of form practically, we 

 learn that we organise the body of sensation to 

 higher purposes by checking the life-impulse as it 

 runs out to the object of the senses. These objects 

 gradually turn away from the abstemious dweller in 

 the body, it is written, and as the lower world 

 ceases to attract, the higher world begins to use the 

 form for nobler ends. If we desire to increase 

 mental power, we must practise steady thinking, 

 and check the rovings of intelligence over the phe- 

 nomenal world. As a matter of fact, many people 

 never really think at all; what they call their 

 thoughts are nothing more than the reflections of 

 other people's thoughts to which their consciousness 

 responds ; their minds are looking-glasses, not pro- 



