state. However, man being a Spiritual being, his creations have always been mental ones. That is, they were first born in the realm of mind as thought-forms, and that later these forms surrounded themselves with forms of desire or feeling, which later produced for them bodies of etheric life animated and filled with their emotional vitality; and which finally crystallized into what are now called physical bodies.

But all are still only mental or more strictly speaking spiritual bodies, for the Spirit in man gave them birth first in the realm of mind, and through the mind he still controls them; for as is shown in our booklet The Way Out, man by thinking can quickly change their outer appearance on any and all planes by simply changing his concept or picture of them in the mental realm. This means that he thereby changes them also on all four planes of being, for what is fully born in the mental realm sooner or later outmanifests itself in all the outer realms.

Now when we tell you that the four basic or elemental essences of air, fire, water and earth have a definite relation to man’s inner nature, and that the elemental essences of air constitute man’s mental body; of fire his astral or emotional body; of water his etheric or vital body; and of earth his dense or physical body—you can understand with the elemental forces or beings of these realms subject to man’s will how by vitalizing thinking he can remould his four-fold body and all bodies and conditions in the various realms as he desires them to be.

This is done purely by conscious, determined thinking, as shown in The Way Out. In all such thinking the elementals (forces) of the air or of the mental realm immediately enter the thought-form created, obeying and taking on the intelligence which imbued it and thereby vitalizing