The constitution of man. How the doctrine differs from the
ordinary Christian one. The real doctrine known in the first
centuries of this era, but purposely withdrawn from a nation
not able to bear it. The danger if the doctrine had not been
withdrawn. The sevenfold division. The principles classified.
The divisions agree with the chain of seven globes. The lower
man is a composite being. His higher trinity. The lower
four principles transitory and perishable. Death leaves the
trinity as the only persistent part of us. What the physical
man is, and what the other unseen mortal man is. A second
physical man not seen but still mortal. The senses pertain to
the unseen man and not to the visible one. Pages 29 to 34.
CHAPTER V.
BODY AND ASTRAL BODY.
The body and life principle. The mystery of life. Sleep
and death are due to excess of life not bearable by the organism.
The body an illusion. What is the cell. Life is universal.
It is not the result of the organism. The Astral Body.
What it is made of. Its powers and functions. As a model
for the body. It is possessed by all kingdoms of nature. Its
power to travel. The real sense organs are in the astral body.
The place the astral body has at spiritualistic _séances_. The
astral body accounts for telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience,
and all such psychical phenomena. Pages 35 to 44.
CHAPTER VI.
KAMA-DESIRE.
The fourth principle. Kama Rupa. In English, the Passions
and Desires. Kama Rupa is not produced by the body
but is the cause for body. This is the balance principle of the
seven. It is the basis of action and mover of the will. Right
desire leads to right act. This principle has a higher and a
lower aspect. The principle is in the astral body. At death
it coalesces with the astral body and makes of it a shell of the
man. It has powers of its own of an automatic nature. This
shell is the so-called “spirit” of _séances_. It is a danger to the
race. Elementals help this shell at _séances_. No soul or conscience
present. Suicides and executed criminals leave very
coherent shells. The principle of desire is common to all the
organized kingdoms. It is the brute part of man. Man is
now a fully developed quaternary with the higher principles
partially developed. Pages 45 to 51.
CHAPTER VII.
MANAS.
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