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Chapter III: The Planes of Life2179
The same may be done by heating a bar of iron causing its color to change
gradually from a dull red to a delicate violet or white. Or in the case of a
current of electricity, the power may be raised or lowered at will. If a still more
material illustration be required, we have the case of the hardest mineral
which may be changed into an invisible vapor simply by raising its degree
of vibrations by heat. What is true on the lower planes of manifestation, is
true of the higher. The transition from higher to lower, or lower to higher
may be thought of (if desired) as a change of vibration in the energy of
which all things are composed. This will come about as near to the truth as
our imperfect powers of conception and comparison will permit. There are
no words to express the higher phenomena—all illustration in terms of the
lower planes are crude, imperfect, and unsatisfactory. But even by these
lowly symbols may the mind of man learn to grasp the ideas of things above
the ordinary senses, and beyond the power of ordinary terms to express.
And, now, with the above firmly fixed in your minds, let us proceed to a
consideration of the Great Astral Plane of Existence.