I want to give a little introduction to thoughtforms for those that don't understand what they're about and how to use them. If anyone has anything to add in addition to what I'm going to say in summary in this post, reply in the thread, and later on we can have a page created for all of this. I will try to give also a breakdown of the many different classifications of thoughtforms but will appreciate others input in this task of defining the different classes of thoughtforms as described by various authors and traditions.
Introduction to Thoughtforms
Thoughtforms are created by imagining any given form you wish, concentrating on them, and using the emotions to strengthen them.
Thoughtforms are created out of loosh (emotions). The more loosh you can part to them before getting too drained, the stronger they are.
A thoughtform can be very simple or complex and sentient. Your own mind is composed of many thoughtforms and your auric substance, when seen clairvoyantly, can be seen to gather in spots you concentrate on and parts of your aura to break off there.
During emotional shock, your aura goes really thin, and lots of the auric substance is lost; transformed into various thoughts and absorbed into a memory.
Every day we naturally create many thoughtforms all the time. A wizard however does it purposefully and intentionally.
There are many different exercises concerning thoughtforms to strengthen your ability in working with and creating them.
To begin with, you should imagine all manner of geometry, as well numbers and letters, simple shapes and objects… note every detail you can about them and also note that many details FILL IN without you thinking about them at all. Automatically, certain textures, colours, etc. you didn't give any thought to will appear. There is a secret in this observation that allows you to do many amazing things with thoughtforms!
Every day I personally picture 0 to 60… sometimes I do more. All the time not sounding out the numbers, just seeing them appear before me. I have an ability now to use just thoughtforms to do calculations for me, I don't have to count things now, and it is way faster this way.
A tulpa is a sentient thoughtform. A tulpa is created through prolonged concentration upon a typically humanoid form, which gradually or suddenly depending on the level of emotions the tulpamancer can bring fourth, takes form and increases in intelligence and power. I will write an entire section just for tulpamancy if desired.
Thoughtforms are used to do almost everything in magick. They are essential to the practice of magick. They are fairly dangerous but not if you have pure intentions and a pure mind, for they are shaped only out of whatever you put into them, and in the case of stronger thoughtforms that which is assimilated from others emotions as well.
This is a rule concerning all thought; every thought carries a certain momentum to it in proportion to the emotional charge given it. Frequent repetitions or a few strong jolts of emotional energy into a thoughtform gives to it its own momentum. A thoughtform shaped to influence, when given a very strong charge, carries its target(s) away with its influence so strongly they can't resist. Weak thoughts or thoughtforms can be stifled in an instance the moment you turn your mind to another subject but strong ones are so intense you feel them and their influence until the charge is exhausted, they are driven off or banished, or you break resonance with them.