The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 108

The Great Mental Plane
comprises those forms of
"living things" known to us
in ordinary life, as well as
certain other forms not so
well known except to the
occultist. The classification
of the Seven Minor Mental
Planes is more or less
satisfactory and arbitrary
(unless accompanied by
elaborate explanations
which are foreign to the
purpose of this particular
work), but we may as well
mention them.
They are as follows:
1. The Plane
Mind
2. The Plane
Mind (A)
3. The Plane
4. The Plane
Mind (B)
5. The Plane
Mind
6. The Plane
Mind (C)
7. The Plane
Mind

of Mineral
of Elemental
of Plant Mind
of Elemental
of Animal
of Elemental
of Human

The Plane of Mineral Mind
comprises the "states or
conditions" of the units or
entities, or groups and
combinations of the same,

which animate the forms
known to us as "minerals,
chemicals, etc." These
entities must not be
confounded with the
molecules, atoms and
corpuscles themselves, the
latter being merely the
material bodies or forms of
these entities, just as a
man's body is but his
material form and not
"himself." These entities
may be called "souls" in
one sense and are living
beings of a low degree of
development, life and mind
- just a little more than the
units of "living energy"
which comprise the higher
sub-divisions of the highest
Physical Plane. The average
mind does not generally
attribute the possession of
mind, soul, or life, to the
mineral kingdom, but all
occultists recognize the
existence of the same and
modern science is rapidly
moving forward to the
point-of-view of the
Hermetic, in this respect.
The molecules, atoms and
corpuscles have their
"loves and hates", "likes
and dislikes", "attractions