1. Thoughts Are Things
Cayce often said:
“Thoughts are things, and as their currents run, they become deeds.”
For Cayce, every thought has form, substance, and energy in the unseen world. Just as physical actions create effects in the material world, thoughts create energetic patterns or "thought-forms" in the mental and spiritual realms.
2. Thought-Forms Have Creative Power
Creative Forces (God, Spirit) work through thought.
What we hold in mind — whether good or destructive — builds patterns that can manifest over time as circumstances, relationships, and even physical conditions.
Repeated thoughts shape character, influence others, and attract experiences into one’s life. This aligns with the law of karma and the idea of “mind is the builder.”
Each thought, each activity makes for the building of an influence, a thought-form, that becomes as it were a portion of thyself.
3. Thought-Forms Influence Others
Thought-forms aren’t limited to the individual; they can impact others at a distance.
Loving, healing, or prayerful thoughts sent to others can uplift them, while negative or critical thoughts may burden them.
This principle is at the heart of Cayce’s instructions for healing prayer circles and group meditation.
4. Thought-Forms Leave Imprints on the Soul
Persistent thought-forms become soul patterns, carried from lifetime to lifetime.
They contribute to one’s karmic record and influence future conditions.
This is why Cayce emphasized setting spiritual ideals — to ensure thought-forms build harmony and not discord.
For each entity becomes the sum of that it thinks, as it acts upon that it thinks, in relation to the ideal which it holds before self.
5. Thought-Forms Are the Bridge Between Spirit and Matter
Thought-forms reside in the non-material plane, but they precede material reality.
This reflects the spiritual law: spirit → mind → body. What begins as thought may eventually become physical reality.
6. Negative Thought-Forms Can Be Cleansed
Unhelpful thought-forms can create "blocks" or "clouds" around an individual.
Through prayer, meditation, forgiveness, and right living, these can be dissolved.
Cayce emphasized the importance of cleansing not only the body, but the mind and spirit, to remove harmful thought-forms.
Summary:
As ye think, so ye are. As ye harbor in thine heart, so does the law of the Lord become manifested in thee, to thee, through thee.
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HOW THOUGHT-FORMS RELATE TO THE ASTRAL PLANES
1. The Astral Plane as the Realm of Mind and Emotion
In Cayce’s teachings, the astral plane is a non-physical dimension that lies between the material world and higher spiritual realms. It's the realm of:
Desires
Emotions
Imagination
Thought-forms
He described it as a kind of "mental-emotional plane" where thought-forms naturally exist and take shape.
In the astral plane thought becomes immediately the thing itself. (paraphrased from several readings)
2. Thought-Forms Are Real in the Astral Plane
Unlike in the physical world, where manifestation takes time, in the astral plane, thoughts instantly create form.
Positive thoughts create beautiful, harmonious forms.
Negative or fearful thoughts create distorted or disturbing forms.
For example, if one holds anger, jealousy, or hatred, those emotions can shape astral forms that may later manifest as personal obstacles, illness, or karmic lessons.
3. The Astral Plane Stores Our Mental and Emotional Patterns
Our thought-forms don’t vanish; they remain part of our soul record, accumulating in the astral body.
This astral “body of thought-forms” can influence future incarnations, because the soul carries these patterns from lifetime to lifetime.
That’s one reason Cayce emphasized the importance of daily mental and spiritual discipline, to cleanse and uplift one’s thought-forms.
4. Thought-Forms Shape the Afterlife Experience
Upon physical death, individuals enter the astral plane.
The environment one experiences there is colored by one’s thought-forms.
People who have cultivated peace, love, and service encounter uplifting astral conditions; those dominated by fear, guilt, or selfishness may encounter more troubling astral experiences until purification occurs.
The heavens and hells are of thine own making.
5. Astral Thought-Forms Can Influence the Physical
Some thought-forms existing in the astral plane press into the physical over time.
For example, prolonged worry may create nervous disorders; resentments may generate health problems.
Conversely, loving, healing thought-forms can build vitality, peace, and draw healing influences to oneself and others.
6. Astral Thought-Forms and Psychic Sensitivity
Many psychic impressions people receive come from contact with the astral thought-forms of others.
This is why Cayce warned that psychic development must always be anchored to spiritual ideals — otherwise one may pick up distorted or misleading astral impressions.
Discern the source:
Is it from the ideal, the Christ Spirit, or from confused thought-forms in the astral plane?
7. Astral Thought-Forms and Group Work
In group meditations (like the Cayce Study Groups), collective thought-forms are created.
When focused on spiritual ideals, these group-generated thought-forms create a powerful force for healing, guidance, and upliftment — both in the astral plane and in the material world.
Summary Insight
The astral plane is essentially the world of thought-forms.
What we habitually think, feel, and desire builds forms in that realm.
These forms shape both our current lives and our future experiences — in this world and the next.
Cayce continually emphasized: Guard your thoughts, for they are creative forces.
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THOUGHT-FORMS IN ATLANTIS
According to Cayce, thought-forms were extremely significant during that era. Let me carefully lay it out:
1. Atlanteans Had Mastery Over Thought-Forms
In Atlantis, according to Cayce, people were much more attuned to the creative power of thought.
Thought-forms were not abstract — they could become real, almost instantly.
Advanced Atlanteans knew how to use mental energy to materialize objects, control forces, and even influence matter directly.
There were those who manifested forms from thought.
This ability was not limited to a few — much of the Atlantean civilization used thought as a creative tool, for both good and evil.
2. Manifestation Through Thought: Spirit → Mind → Matter
Cayce repeatedly emphasized the spiritual law:
Spirit is the life. Mind is the builder. The physical is the result.
In Atlantis, this was not theory — it was applied science.
Technology, healing, and even transportation (like levitation or “flying ships”) were partly controlled by mental attunement and thought-directed forces, including the use of crystals (firestones) that amplified thought-forms into material action.
3. The Downfall: Misuse of Thought-Forms
As some Atlanteans pursued selfish desires, they misused thought-form creation for power, control, and gratification.
This led to the creation of unnatural creatures or hybrids (sometimes described as “things” or "projections" in Cayce's readings), which were generated through manipulating life energies combined with thought-forms.
These became as projections through thought into matter.
Such creations disturbed the natural order and contributed to the moral and physical collapse of Atlantean civilization.
4. Thought-Forms Became a Karmic Burden
The misuse of thought-forms in Atlantis created karmic debts for many souls involved.
According to Cayce, many of those souls have reincarnated in modern times, facing challenges related to the misuse of creative powers — whether through technology, desire for control, or misdirected spiritual abilities.
Many who lived then live today to correct the misuse of mind and force.
5. Atlantean Thought-Form Technology:
The Firestone
Cayce described a great power crystal or Tuaoi Stone (Firestone), used to amplify natural forces.
This device operated partly through mental direction — meaning, the thoughts and intentions of those operating it could influence its effects.
When controlled by pure, balanced minds, it was beneficial. But when greed and selfishness crept in, the thought-forms magnified destructive forces.
6. A Lesson for Modern Times
Cayce often warned that we are re-approaching similar thresholds today.
Our increasing mastery over technology, energy, and even artificial intelligence parallels Atlantean conditions.
Once again, the great test is:
Will humanity use creative forces for service, or for selfish power?
Thought-forms remain just as real now — but their amplification may one day become more direct again, as our spiritual and mental capacities evolve.
In short:
In Atlantis, thought-forms were an applied science.
Both great good and great evil were produced through mastery of thought-creation.
The misuse of thought-forms led directly to Atlantis' downfall.
Many alive today are reincarnated souls who must now learn right use of the mind as builder.
"The activities in Atlantis brought forth into materialization many thought-forms... the misuse of creative energies led to destructions.” (paraphrased from Reading 877-26)
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