from Theosophy, by Annie Besant, Ballatine, Hanson & Co, London, (no date):
from Theosophy, by Annie Besant, Ballatine, Hanson &
Co, London, (no date):
"...We have seen that changes in consciousness are accompanied
by vibrations of matter, and that such vibrations are sympathetically
reproduced by neighboring bodies. If a man is feeling angry, or
depressed, or revengeful, his astral body will vibrate in assonance
with his mood. The astral body of anyone coming near him will
be impinged on by these vibrations, and will begin to vibrate
in unison with them, these vibrations then producing in the second
person a feeling of anger, or depression, or revenge, as the case
may be. He will thus strengthen the vibrations produced in his
astral body and will return them reinforced, strengthening those
of the first, and this fatal interchange will go on, increasing
the evil. But if the secoond person, understanding the law [of
nature] grips his astral body with his will, prevents it from
reproducing the vibrations which strike on it, and imposes on
it a contrary set of vibrations, those which accompny a feeling
of gentleness, cheerfulness, or forgiveness, he will quiet down
the vibrations caused by evil emotion, and presently change them
to their opposite. Therefore the Lord Budda taught: "Hatred
ceaseth not by hatred at any time; hatred ceaseth by love."
This is as certain as that a red ray of light will quench a green
ray, and leave stillness -- absence of light vibrations. It is
a law of Nature, and one that can readily be verified by experiment.
To follow this law is to substitute a harmonious relation for
an inharmonious, i.e. to be moral." p. 48
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