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SIMILITUDES, WORLD OF
A symbol of the astral plane, next above the
physical.
"The World of Similitudes is so called because in it exist, ready to
be materialised, the forms which are to be actualized on the
Physical Plane. The confines of this World of Similitudes touch
those of the Visible World." - GIBB, Hist. of Ottoman Poetry, Vol.
I. p. 56.
The forms on the astral plane are reproductions of forms on the
mental plane, the which forms have been modified by karmic agencies.
"Occultism teaches that no form can be given to anything, either by
nature or by man, whose ideal type does not already exist on the
subjective plane: more than this, that no form or shape can possibly
enter man's consciousness, or evolve in his imagination, which does
not exist in prototype, at least as an approximation. Neither the
form of man, nor that of any animal, plant or stone, has ever been
'created'; and it is only on this plane of ours that it commenced
becoming,' that is to say, objectivising into its present
materiality, or expanding from within outwards." - BLAVATSKY, Secret
Doctrine, Vol. I. p. 303.
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