Empowering Thought Forms Through Linking of Will and Emotion

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Perhaps the biggest impediments
to the exercise of the occult

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powers native to the human
condition is our lack of

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willingness to acknowledge these
powers for what they are and our

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lack of attention and focus on
understanding, developing, and

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exercising them.
When extraordinary circumstances

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arise and we actually
concentrate our minds, things

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may take place that we do not
associate with the direct action

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of our minds.
Perhaps they occur out of

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sequence with our action or at a
distant place, or in an

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unexpected manner.
One way or the other, we fail to

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see the cause and effect
relationship and thus we deny

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the reality of the action
itself.

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It takes serious effort of
observation and training to both

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identify and employ these powers
in a fully effective and

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powerful manner.
Written questions put to the

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Mother, then a sub question
quote.

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Without conscious occult powers,
is it possible to help or

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protect from a distance somebody
in difficulty or danger?

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If so, what is the practical
procedure?

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What can thought do?
End Quote, the Mother responds.

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Quote.
We are not going to speak of

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occult processes at all,
although to tell the truth,

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everything that happens in the
invisible world is a cult by

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definition.
But still, practically there are

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two processes which do not
exclude but complete each other,

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but which may be used separately
according to one's preference.

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It is obvious that thought forms
a part of one of the methods,

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quite an important part.
I have already told you several

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times that if one thinks clearly
and powerfully, one makes a

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mental formation, and that every
mental formation is an entity

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independent of its fashioner,
having its own life and tending

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to realize itself in the mental
world.

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I don't mean that you see your
formation with your physical

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eyes, but it exists in the
mental world.

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It has its own particular
independent existence.

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If you have made a formation
with a definite aim, its whole

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life will tend to the
realization of this aim.

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Therefore, if you want to help
someone at a distance, you have

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only to formulate very clearly,
very precisely and strongly the

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kind of help you want to give
and the result you wish to

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obtain.
That will have its effect.

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I cannot say that it will be all
powerful, for the mental world

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is full of innumerable
formations of this kind, and

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naturally they clash and
contradict one another.

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Hence the strongest and the most
persistent will have the best of

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it.
Now, what is it that gives

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strength and persistence to
mental formations?

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It is emotion and will.
If you know how to add to your

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mental formation and emotion
affection, tenderness, love, and

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an intensity of will, a
dynamism, it will have a much

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greater chance of success.
That is the first method.

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It is within the scope of all
those who know how to think and

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even more of those who know how
to love.

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But as I said, the power is
limited and there is great

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competition in that world.
Therefore, even if one has no

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knowledge at all, but has trust
in the Divine grace, if one has

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the faith that there is
something in the world like the

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Divine grace, and that this
something can answer a prayer

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and aspiration and invocation,
then after making one's mental

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formation, if one offers it to
the grace and puts one's trust

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in it, asks it to intervene and
has the faith that it will

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intervene, then indeed one has a
chance of success.

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Try and you will surely see the
result.

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End Quote.
Reference Sri Orobindo and the

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Mother powers within.
Chapter 2.

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Power of Thought, pages 18 to
19.