s subject.

One of the first of these several phases of astral phenomena is that which
may be called Thought-Form Projection. This manifestation comes in the
place on the psychic scale just between ordinary clairvoyance on the one
hand, and astral body projection on the other. It has some of the
characteristics of each, and is often mistaken for one or the other of
these phases.

To understand this phenomena, the student should know something regarding
the fact that thought frequently takes on astral form, and that these
manifestations are known as thought-forms. I have spoken of these in some
of the preceding lessons. The ordinary thought-form is quite simple, as a
rule, and does not bear any particular resemblance to the sender thereof.
But in some cases a person may, consciously or unconsciously, strongly and
clearly think of himself as present at some other place, and thus actually
create a thought-form of himself at that place, which may be discerned by
those having clairvoyant vision. Moreover, this thought-form of himself
is connected psychically with himself and affords a channel of psychic
information for him. As a rule these thought-forms are only projected by
those who have trained their minds and will along occult lines; but
occasionally under the stress of strong emotion or desire an ordinary
person may focus his psychic power to such an extent that the phenomena is
manifested.

Here I will quote from an English investigator of astral phenomena, who
has had much experience on that plane. He says: "All students are aware
that thought takes form, at any rate upon its own plane, and in the
majority of cases upon the astral plane also; but it may not be so
generally known that if a man thinks strongly of himself as present at any
given place, the form assumed by that particular thought will be a
likeness of the thinker himself, which will appear at the place in
question. Essentially this form must be composed of the matter of the
mental plane, but in very many cases it would draw round itself matter of
the astral plane also, and so would approach much nearer to visibility.
There are, in fact, many instances in which it has been seen by the person
thought of--most probably by means of the unconscious influence emanating
from the original thinker. None of the consciousness of the thinker would,
however, be included within this thought-form. When once sent out from
him, it would normally be a quite separate enti