The Bowl of Saki Commentary

So much attention is paid to the mind in the earthly life and consequently it absorbs all the vital energy. This in itself hastens the disintegration of the physical body, and also increases the potential life in the mental sphere, Malakut. Years upon years of habit produce idiosyncrasies between the atoms of the body of far more lasting nature than the body itself. So strong are the thoughts of some people that it takes ages to adjust them to the universal harmony.

The condition that takes place after the disintegration of the physical body is only different from this earthly condition in that there is no longer the gross body to impede activity and progress. After the body's disintegration our thoughts and wishes shape themselves much more quickly; they are more pliable. This enables one to achieve results in far less time even though the life is very, very much longer; by this is heaven or hell shaped, not created, but shaped out of the sphere.

This makes it appear that we have will-power, even tremendous will-power, but it is not so. What is true is that the concentration of desire always controls thought vibrations. We cannot see this while on earth because of the denseness of earth; in the mental sphere we see it and apparently control it. But it is nothing but the operation of law there. We see the law directly in that sphere, whereas it is hidden beneath the gross matter in this sphere where it also works but operates much more slowly.