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KOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 152.
Is not the Invisible World of which you speak very
unreal and shadowy in comparison to
we now live?
this world in which
Answer: God is the Prime Eeality. The Desire World
and the World of Thought are one and two steps nearer
to that central source of energy and hence they are more
real. By "real" the inquirer presumahly means that in
this world the forms are stable and do not easily change,
whereas in the Invisible Worlds they are more than plastic
and change with the rapidity of thought, but the life
within is the reality and not the form. Stability is not a
mark of reality. Everything in the world which is now
crystallized and stable has first existed in a plastic condition
in the Invisible World. Everything which has been
made by the hand of man was first a thought form in the
mind of its maker.
When an architect desires to build a house, he first
thinks it out. He seeks to form an idea as clearly as
possible
of what the house is to be. Could the 'Workmen
see the thought form in the mind of the architect, they
would be able to work from that without plans, but the
architect's idea is hidden from them by the veil of flesh
and, therefore, it is necessary for the architect to put his
idea on paper and make a plan. This is the first stage of
crystallization ;
iron, wood and stone.
afterward the workmen build the house in
According to the ideas of most people this house is much
more real than the thought form in the mind of the archi-
tect, but in reality that is not so. The concrete house