There are no demons. No ghosts or ghouls or Tohs. But there are aberrative circuits. Hubbard doesn't explain how it is that these "circuits" existed structurally. But "structure" was not his concern; his concern was function. He wrote: "...it was not necessary to show how it is done in terms of physical mechanism if we can show that it IS done and it succeeds." In 1950, a circuit was defined by Hubbard as: "A part of the individual's bank [reactive mind] that behaves as though it were someone or something separate from him and that either talks to him or goes into action of its own accord, and may even, if severe enough, take control of him while it operates. The jingle heard on the radio that sticks in one's mind, playing over and over; the actor who after many appearances on stage, portraying a particular character, takes a vacation and finds, to his discomfort, that he still at times possesses the qualities of that character; the obsession that grips a person causing him to do things he knows he will later regret-the materialistic viewpoint might simply say, "That's simply something the brain does." The spiritual viewpoint on the other hand traditionally divides a human being into "body, mind, and spirit," with the spirit being the basic individual and the mind being the recordings of one's past experiences, ideas, conclusions, etc. These recordings are not necessarily considered as a part of the brain, but rather a function of the spirit". Quoting from Joseph Krutch's More Lives Than One: "The physiologists are very fond of comparing the network of our cerebral nerves with a telephone system but they overlook the significant fact that a telephone system does not function until someone talks over it. The brain does not create thought (Sir Julian Huxley has recently pointed out this fact); it is an instrument which thought finds useful." LOATHSOME LARVAE From Mouni Sadhu's The Tarot, A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism: Let us imagine that a man has a common evil desire, he makes no attempt to realize it on the physical plane. He only draws a dark desire on the astral plane, and so creates a kind of "entity."...This artificial "being" does not possess a physical body....Such a being
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