HomeThus, through finding himself and understanding his own
nature, man arrives at that center within himself which is one with all that is; he finds
he is equipped with an apparatus which can put him in touch with the differentiated
manifestations through which Deity seeks to express itself. He possesses a [57] vital
body, responsive to universal energy, and the vehicle for the two forms of soul energy to
which I referred above. The subject of the vital body, its relation to this universal
energy, and its seven points of contact with the physical organism are covered in my book,
The Soul and Its Mechanism, and will not be enlarged upon here, beyond quoting one
paragraph.
"Behind
the objective body lies a subjective form constituted of etheric matter, and acting as a
conductor of the life principle of energy, or prana. This life principle is the force
aspect of the soul, and through the medium of the etheric body the soul animates the form,
gives it its peculiar qualities and attributes, impresses upon it its desires and,
eventually, directs it through the activity of the mind. Through the medium of the brain
the soul galvanizes the body into conscious (directed) activity and through the medium of
the heart all parts of the body are pervaded by life."
- Bailey, Alice, The Soul and its Mechanism, page 62.
There is
also another body which is composed of the sumtotal of all emotional states, moods and
feelings. This body reacts to a man's physical environment in response to information
received by the brain through the medium of the five senses, and conveyed to it via the
vital body. Thus it is swept into activity of a purely selfish and personal nature; or it
can be trained to react primarily to the mind, regarding the mind (as it so seldom is) as
the interpreter of the spiritual self, the soul. It is this emotional body, characterized
by feeling and desire, that acts most potently, in the majority of cases, upon [58] the
physical body. This latter is regarded by the esotericist as a pure automaton, driven into
action by the desire nature and energized by the vital energy.
As the race
progresses, another "body," the mind body, comes into being and activity, and
gradually assumes an active and natural control. Like the physical and emotional
organisms, this mental mechanism is at first entirely objective in its orientation, and
swings into activity through impacts coming to it from the outer world, via the senses.
Becoming increasingly positive, it slowly and surely begins to dominate the other
phenomenal aspects of man until the personality, in all its four aspects, is completed and
unified as a functioning entity on the physical plane. When this happens, a crisis is
reached and new developments and unfoldments become possible.
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