2/01/18
“This same man that we are considering, however, affects others by his thoughts. For these mental images that form his own mental body set up vibrations, thus reproducing themselves in secondary forms.
These, generally being mingled with desire, take up some astral matter, and I have therfore elsewhere called these secondary thought-forms astral mental images.
Such forms leave their creator and lead a quasi-independent life – still keeping up a magnetic tie with their progenitor. They come into contact with and affect others, in this way setting up karmic links between these others and himself; thus they largely influence his future environment.
In such fashion are made the ties which draw people together for good or evil in later lives; which surround us with relatives, friends, and enemies; which bring across our path helpers and hinderers, people who benefit and who injure us, people who love us without winning in this life, and who hate us though in this life we have done nothing to deserve their hatred.
Studying these results, we grasp a great principle – that while our thoughts produce our mental and moral character in their action on ourselves, they help to determine our human associates in the future by their effects on others.”
Annie Besant
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 