The Seven Bodies of Manifestation - in man
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The Three Higher Bodies
The Divine Monad consists of the I AM Presence is surrounded by spheres of light that make up the causal body, containing man's "treasure laid up in heaven." Mark Prophet said, "Realize that your God Presence has all the qualities of wisdom, all the qualities of compassion, all the qualities of peace, all the qualities of Christ-victory - every quality you need to make your ascension. If you will remind yourself that these qualities exist within the God flame, if you'll fix that in your mind, this human person, the mask you see that is not real, will do like old General MacArthur - it won't die, it'll just fade away." |
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Access the teachings on the three higher bodies of man through the links In/Out provided below. Click on Icons for TSL Encyclopedia concise descriptions. Access Tube of Light here for further teachings on the Higher Bodies of man.
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The four lower bodies
In man and nature
The four lower bodies are reference points for man’s mastery of himself and his environment through the mastery of the Four Cosmic Forces known as earth, air, fire and water. These cosmic forces form the square at the base of the pyramid of Life; and unless they are in balanced manifestation within the four lower bodies, neither man nor his creations can be perfected or made permanent.
The elemental beings of earth, air, fire and water are representatives of the Four Cosmic Forces in the lower kingdoms of the planetary body.
In man and nature
The four lower bodies are reference points for man’s mastery of himself and his environment through the mastery of the Four Cosmic Forces known as earth, air, fire and water. These cosmic forces form the square at the base of the pyramid of Life; and unless they are in balanced manifestation within the four lower bodies, neither man nor his creations can be perfected or made permanent.
The elemental beings of earth, air, fire and water are representatives of the Four Cosmic Forces in the lower kingdoms of the planetary body.
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Genesis 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.
Four sheaths consisting of four distinct frequencies that surround the soul—the physical, emotional, mental, and etheric—providing vehicles for the soul in her journey through time and space. The vehicles provided by God for his individualization of the God flame and for the soul’s expression in the world of material form. As interpenetrating forcefields, these bodies are focal points for the step-down transformation of the energies of Spirit which coalesce as Matter.
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The Etheric Body –
The Fire BodyThe etheric body is the fire body. It is the natural envelope of the soul. It has the highest frequency of the four lower bodies and it corresponds to the fire element. Within this etheric envelope, or sheath, God has placed the blueprint of the soul identity, the blueprint that will manifest as consciousness, as mind, as emotion and as the physical matrix itself. The etheric body actually has two compartments, the higher etheric body and the lower etheric body. The lower etheric body is related to the subconscious mind. The higher etheric body is related to the superconscious mind. And between the two there are the recordings in man's being of his heaven and his earth, so to speak—of the perfection of the soul's origin in God, his heaven-world, and of what he has made of his soul and his consciousness through his many experiences in his incarnations in time and space. We deal with the subconscious and unconscious mind as the source of man's problems and with the superconscious mind as the great cause behind all effect, which becomes the source of healing. That superconscious mind, of course, is the I AM THAT I AM, the blessed I AM Presence. Actually, the higher etheric body is a reflection and the very repository of this I AM Presence, this I AM THAT I AM. We find that the key to the healing of the total being of man, the key to wholeness, is in this etheric body. The original purpose of the etheric body was to be the vehicle of the memory of God. This memory is the inner blueprint of the soul as it came forth from the living Spirit. As we study the functions of the four lower bodies, we begin to see how they may be correctly used and how mankind have misused these lower vehicles. |
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The Mental Body
The mental body, the sheath of God's consciousness, is intended to be used as the vehicle of the mind of God and the mind of the Christ and the Buddha. But instead some have taken that precious energy and stamped upon it our version of mind, which has become the carnal mind, or the intellect, and we have used the mental body to be a receptacle of worldly knowledge instead of the knowledge of both this world and the next. We therefore have made of the mental body a very limited vehicle, when it could be the instrument of the fullness of the mind of God that was manifest in Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. We find that the impressions in the mental body have their effects upon the physical body. Where there are impurities in the etheric body, these are reflected in the mental body. Where there are impurities in the mental body, these are reflected in the feeling body. And where there are impurities in the feeling body, these are reflected in the physical body. |
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The Feeling Body –
The Emotional Body The purpose of the feeling body (the desire body) is to express the desire of God. God has only one desire and that desire is to be God. God desiring to be God ought to be the experience of our meditation and our communion. We ought to use the feeling body, the body of “energy-in-motion,” or e-motion, to experience the intense feelings of God as love, as truth, as kindness, as compassion, as purity, and so forth. But instead we have used the emotional body to record the feelings of anger and pride and jealousy and revenge, hatred and intense fear and anxiety, which we find influencing so many of the people today. |
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The Physical Body – The Temple of the Holy Spirit
Finally, we have the physical vehicle, which was ordained by God to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, the temple of the living God. But we have allowed to come into this temple all manner of perversions of that God—everything from the impurities that we find in our food to the impurity that is reflected from the mental and feeling worlds. And thus the invasion of the body temple has become very great. In the time of Jesus it was seen as demon possession, and the ritual of exorcism, of course, has always been recognized in the Catholic Church. We find that in order to have healing and wholeness of the four lower bodies, we must set the boundaries of the temple. These four lower bodies, these four sides of our great pyramid of life, are the lines of demarcation that separate us from the mass consciousness. When we have an identity that is clearly defined in God, we can retain the uniqueness of the self in God. When our individuality is not clearly defined, then we tend to float and to drift and to merge with every type of vibration, seen and unseen, and we become nothing more than an amoeba or a jellyfish floating in the sea of the mass consciousness. Source TSL.ORG [14. Spiritual keys to healing] |
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Ascended Masters 101 describes the actions of the four lower bodies of man - manifestation.
Did you know that you have FOUR bodies?? They’re called your four lower bodies and they’re rather essential for functioning on this earth. Plus, aligning them is one of the requirements for your ASCENSION (woot woot!), so knowing a bit about them is a huge plus! We’ll cover that here.
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Summit University On-Line FREE UNIT - Click below to access teaching given on the four lower bodies
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SU was founded in 1971 as a college of religion, culture and science, by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. It serves as the educational arm of The Summit Lighthouse, a spiritual organization based on the teachings of the ascended masters.
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