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  Mental plane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The mental plane, or world of thought, in Hermeticism, Theosophical, Rosicrucian, Aurobindonian, and New Age thought refers to the macrocosmic or universal plane or reality that is made up purely of thought or mindstuff.
The esoteric conception of the Mental Plane had to wait till the occult revival of the late 19th century, with the development of modern Theosophical, Hermetic, and Kabbalistic ideas that were to serve as the foundation for the current New Age movement.
A detailed account of The Mental Plane and the Mental Body and their associated phenomena, as described by Leadbeater and his co-worker Annie Besant (who succeeded Blavatsky as head of the Theosophical society), can be found in Arthur E. Powell's The Mental Body.
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 Mental body - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The mental body (the mind) is one of the subtle bodies in esoteric philosophies, in some religious teachings and in New Age thought.
In eastern vedantic philosophy, the words "mental body" and "mind" almost never refer to an entity independent of consciousness, certainly never in Advaita Vedanta in which consciousness is all that exists.
The mental body is usually considered in terms of an aura that includes thoughtforms.
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 The Mental Body by A.E.Powell - Part 2 of 2
The mental plane [as we shall see in Chapter XXVII] is a reflection of the Divine Mind, a storehouse of infinite extent, from which the person enjoying heaven is able to draw just according to the power of his own thoughts and aspirations generated during his physical and astral life.
Only that portion of the atomic matter of the astral and mental planes which is in an entirely free condition is co-extensive with the interplanetary ether [which consists of ultimate physical atoms in their normal and uncompressed state].
The lower mental plane is thus still a region of personality and error; in it, as well as in the astral world, there is a serpent coiled under every flower; for if personal and foolish desires infest the one, pride and prejudice inhabit the other.
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This latter view conceives of the planes in a quantum manner – nothing exists between them – you are in one and when you travel between them you move instantaneously from one to another, much as an electron jumps between orbitals.
The Mental plane is made up of mental energy, such as that created by thoughts and visualizations, and time and space do not apply to it.
The Mental plane contains abstract thoughts and concepts as well as thought forms and beings that are unaware of that which is outside of themselves.
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 Human makeup, levels, consciousness,physical, vital, mental, spiritual, planes, function, expression, traits, and ...
The physical, vital, and mental planes all exist and are simultaneously active in each person, though the extent of their relative development and the preponderance of the influence they exercise on the personality differs from person to person.
This plane begins with the Physical Mental subplane where there is the most fundamental mental capacity in the form of the processing of thoughts gathered through the inputs of the five senses.
At a higher level, the mental consciousness seeks for a pure knowledge that is not diluted either by the practical utility of level 3 or the emotional subjectivity of level 2.
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 Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - IID - Agni and the Mental Plane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Alice Bailey and Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - IID - Agni and the Mental Plane
When this is better apprehended, bodies on the physical plane, for instance, will be purified, developed and beautified through a scientific attention paid to the development of the psyche, to the unfoldment of the Ego, and to the stimulation of the egoic vibration.
The cause will be dealt with and not the effect, and hence the growing appreciation by the human family of the study of psychology, even though as yet they are but studying the kama-manasic body, and have not reached back to the egoic consciousness.
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 Theosophy : Devachanic Plane by C.W. Leadbeater : AnandGholap.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The astral plane dealt with in Manual V and the mental plane which we are about to consider are those of this earth only, and have nothing to do with these other planets at all.
The mental plane upon which the heaven-life takes place, is the third of the five great planes with which humanity is at present concerned, having below it the astral and the physical, and above it the buddhic and the nirvânic.
This mental plane itself is a reflection of the Divine Mind — a storehouse of infinite extent from which the person enjoying heaven is able to draw just according to the power of his own thoughts and aspirations generated during the physical and astral life.
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 Theosophy : Ancient Wisdom by Annie Besant : AnandGholap.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In this chapter we shall study the plane in its general aspects, leaving on one side for separate consideration those special conditions of life on the astral plane surrounding the human entities who are passing through it on their way from earth to heaven.
The mental plane is that which is next to the astral, and is separated from it only by differences of materials, just as the astral is separated from the physical.
The elemental essence of the mental plane is formed by the Monad in the stage of its descent immediately preceding its entrance into the astral world, and it constitutes the second elemental kingdom, existing on the four lower subdivisions of the mental plane.
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 The Mental (Ideational) Reality
With the Mental Plane - the Manas or Devachan of Theosophy, and the Mental Thinking Mind of Aurobindo - we are in the highest or sub-Spiritual planes of existence.
The Pure Mental is the plane of Pure Reasoning and conceptual idea-forms, the Mental Plane of Theosophy [see A. Powell, The Mental Body, for a summary of the Adyar-Theosophical conception of this], the region of the Ajna or Brow chakra.
These planes can be compared to the Theosophical two-fold division of Causal and Mental planes, or Upper and Lower Devachan, that figure prominently in the writings of Leadbeater, Steiner, Bailey, and others.
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 "Life's Riddle" by Nils A. Amneus, chapter 5
During its absence from the physical plane and while existing on the mental plane the Ego still retained its identity and recognized itself as the same I-Am-I as in the ordinary waking state.
As its vehicle on the mental plane was the ordinary brain-mind, so its vehicle on the next plane is a higher Mind, part of a higher vehicle, existing independent of the physical body and brain.
Our transit from one plane to another is so gradual and gentle that we are unable to watch the process, but we seem to pass through a "swivel door" that closes on one plane as it opens on another.
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 Introduction to AstroQab
The plane of Kama or the Astral plane
8) The plane of Kama or the Astral plane
This correspondence is hinted at by Master DK when he says, "Just as the three planes of the Ego on [1224] the mental plane dominate the remaining planes in the three worlds, so in the five worlds of the Hierarchy the three higher subplanes of the atmic plane hold an analogous place.
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 Does Chance or Justice Rule Our Lives? by Nils A. Amneus
The illustrations given above show that there is a relation between the mental plane and the material plane and that phenomena on the material plane may be affected by causes on the mental plane.
If the material plane is governed by law, as scientific investigation indicates, is it not reasonable to assume that the mental plane, which seems to be the basis of the material plane, must also be governed by law?
On the mental plane we found a perfect reign of law wherever we were able to investigate.
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 Metaphysical Musings - The Mental Body
The mental body judges models in terms of the model's superiority; however, the value of a model lies in it's utility.
Another approach is to identify with both the mental body *and* with spirit.
Ironically, the mental body sells us the illusion that it somehow knows "how it is." By stringing together beads of logic, it designs a pattern and calls it "Truth." Because logic can hypnotize us, we mistake these word patterns for reality.
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 Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on White Magic - Rule VII - The Battleground of the Astral Plane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The dual forces on the plane (whereon the vital power must be sought) are seen; the two paths face the solar Angel; the poles vibrate.
We have completed the first six Rules which deal specifically with work on the mental plane, and hence have a practical value only for those who are beginning to utilize the power of the mind in the magical work of creation.
Psychologists are giving the entire matter much consideration, and though at present the ideal is viewed almost entirely in terms of the physical plane, yet the sum total indicates a vibratory activity in the world soul, as it expresses itself through humanity, and issues forth from the mental realm.
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 The Higher Mental Plane
The Higher or Gnostic Mental or Spiritual Mind is the plane of ideas in their purity, of spiritual principles, and of the striving for Truth unhindered by lower desires and egotistic justifications.
This level of consciousness is transitional between the region of spiritual illumination, which transcends conceptual thought, and the "ordinary" spiritual Mental levels.
Varying terms for this strata of existence are the Essence State of Theon's Tradition, the fourth or Fohatic Prakriti plane in Blavatsky, the Nous (in part) of Proclus, the Angelic World of Beriah (in part) of Kabbalah, and so on.
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 THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION - Evolution of Humanity -- Human Evolution -- Evolution of the universe, The makeup of ...
More specifically she moved from the vital plane into the next highest level, level 3, of the mental plane, the center where one acquires practical knowledge and information.
These negative qualities of the physical, vital, and mental plane of the human are the result of the division and duality from which the universe emerged as the Many from the One.
The falsehood and ignorance of the mental, vital, and physical planes that we each inherit; the falsehoods and ignorance that are unique to each of us, and the unique circumstance of life we confront are the hands we are dealt.
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 Ascension Class 10
There is the delusion on the astral or emotional plane, on the mental plane, and on the etheric plane.
The mental plane is especially important during this particular period of history because we are now in the Aryan race which, again, is the attunement to the mental plane.
The third initiation is the mastery of the physical, emotional, and mental bodies, hence the mastery of maya, glamour and illusion.
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 THE HIGHER SELF AND THE LOWER SELF
The Material Planes show a progressive manifestation from the most rarefied type of subtle matter to the grossest physical matter - it is the gross matter of the physical plane with which we are most familiar.
The Higher Mental Bodies are represented on the diagram as the centre of the ‘flowers’ and the different centres represent different Higher Mental Bodies all stemming from the common Intuitive Principle.
The Higher Mental Plane is the region in which the blueprints for the structures in the planes below it are to be found, so giving rise to the structures of the Lower Self.
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 Lessons in Theosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Theosophy teaches that there are different planes of reality in the universe, such as the physical plane, the astral plane, etc. There are a total of seven planes of existence.
For example, It is understood that people live in physical bodies, yet their emotions are said to exist on the astral plane, and their mental abilities are said to exist on the mental plane.
The upper three sub-planes of the Mental Plane are distinguished from the lower four sub-planes, and is called the “Higher Mental Plane,” or “Higher Manas.”; The “Lower Mental Plane,” also called “Lower Manas,”; is often referred to as “Devachan” in Theosophical literature.
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 Cosmic Consciousness Lesson 4
Will interacts with the astral plane of desire, and a mental matrix emerges that is at the root of eventual creation in the material and conscious plane.
It is imperative that you become thoroughly acquainted with the elements and the corresponding planes in order to achieve Oneness with the Divine.
With the sword or dagger the magician has a dominance over the spirit that comes from the plane above the astral: from the mental plane.
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 Amazon.com: Devachanic Plane or The Heaven World: Books: C. W. Leadbeater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Leadbeater "IN our endeavour to describe the inhabitants of the mental plane it will perhaps be well for us to divide them into the same three..." (more)
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