Elementals and Fire Elementals 2. I have a few more words to say anent this subject of man as a Creator in mental matter. We will, therefore, consider two factors in the process of thought-form. We might generalize in the following manner as to the stages of growth and consequent ability to become the agent of ever increasing powers, tapping the resources of dynamic energy in the three worlds. Lower types of humanity use the sutratma as it passes through the etheric body.
Average men utilize almost entirely that part of the sutratma which passes through the astral plane.
Their reactions are largely based on desire, and are emotional. Intellectual men utilize the sutratma as it passes through the lower levels of the mental plane, down through the astral to the physical in its two sections. Their activities are energized by mind and not by desire, as in the earlier cases. Aspirants on the physical plane use the sutratma as it passes through the two lower subplanes of the abstract levels of the mental plane, and are beginning gradually to build the antahkarana, or the bridge between the Triad and the Personality. The power of the Ego can begin to make itself felt.