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foreign welcome everybody to another series of home with theosophy we are going to see for six six weeks this book written by any base and the ancient wisdom we are not going to go through all the chapters it is a rather thick book I have selected some chapters for this series and then we will see the remaining chapters in a in a future series this book was written by Annie Bess Santa's a kind of foundation for the theosophical teachings for whoever wants to have a general knowledge of the theosophical teachings and she says that is a basic book although as you will see it goes quite a bit into details and the the explanation that we are going to share may help the study of the book it's a classic book on on theosophy and I'm sure you will enjoy it as as I did and and many of us did the way we normally do this is I selected some excerpts from from all the different chapters um Michelle is here going to read it for you then I will explain uh elaborate on on the read and um at the end of the meeting we can have questions and answers some some minutes for that so let us start with the the beginning of we will begin with the chapter where Annie besant talks about the the physical plane we are going to see how she describes all the different planes and the phenomena related to all the the different planes but Annie besan begins with a brief explanation of how the cosmos is built so that we can understand the nature of a planes in a deeper way building the cot and all speech a logos becomes the manifested god of his Universe although the manifested form of spirit and matter of any Universe are finite in their extent and transitory in their duration the roots of spirit and matter are Eternal from this the logo celebrates the matter of his Universe being himself its informing guiding and controlling power so in the theosophical view there is a reality which is a sunny Basin says they are beyond all thought and all speech it is beyond definitions and actually beyond the reach of the Mind the transcendental nature of this reality this reality in the theosophical view is a single reality it's not that spirit and matter are two independent principles there is one single reality from which what we call spirits and matter come now from this or within this Ultimate Reality at some point a logos appears the word logos comes from the Greek and it means several things it means reason it means word it means intelligence or pattern so the idea is that at some point some kind of intelligence appears in the universe of course it is not an intelligence as we conceive it the the human kind of intelligence probably the manifestation of this Intelligence on our level is what we call the loss of Nature and this intelligence appears and from this intelligence comes what we would call Spirit and matter this intelligence itself is wrapped so to say in the root of matter what will become matter in the universe so it is from this one existence that is at the same time the potentiality for intelligence and for matter that the logos appears and from there the cosmos is going to be built so in the theosophical view there are seven planes or dimensions of of matter and space and consciousness I added this this graph graphic here or this table so that that you can understand what an investment is going to say next in the philosophical view there are seven of these planes the highest of them which sometimes is called with the Sanskrit word ADI which means the highest or the first is the plane from which or on which in which the logos awakens on this level everything is a Unity matter and intelligence as we said they are two aspects of the Ultimate Reality then there is a process of differentiation in in which what we call Spirit and matter begin to let's say separate from each other they begin to differentiate and the the deeper we go into this differentiation the more different spirits and matter seem on the highest plane there is no difference these are two aspects of the same reality on the lowest plane the physical plane spirit and matter seem to be completely different and actually even at war with each other even though they are two aspects of the same reality so in the description of the planes we have the first or or the last plane according to where you start counting the highest plane is Adi then the second plane the one that emanates from ADI is called anupadaka this again these are all Sanskrit words because other philosophies don't have these words for the different planes so blavaski used whatever words were were available at the time now these two planes are said to be divine planes that are Beyond even the intention of trying to understand them and then there are five lower planes from number five to one which are are being what we call a human being has existence the highest of them all is called admik it comes from the Sanskrit word Atma which means self this is the ultimate self and is a plane that in Buddhism and Hinduism they call Nirvana when a person becomes aware on this plane is what is said to be the person enters Nirvana then the next plane is the buddhic plane which both their the word buddhim comes from the wood in Sanskrit which means enlightenment and this is the source of wisdom of spiritual intuition of a perception of reality in human beings then the next plane is the monastic it comes from the word Manas which means mind the other the the lower plane after that is the the comic and this means the word comma means uh desire so this is the plane where our our desires and our attractions and repulsions have a reality and the last plane stuller means dense and it's the physical plane so one person will go on now to explain how this place are developed one from the other of what occurs on the two higher planes the seventh and the sixth we can form but the haziest conception the student may think of the fifth plane as atoms of Atma the fourth plane as Atma enveloped in booty matter the third plane as Atma enveloped in booty and Manus matter the second plane as Atma enveloped in budimanus and comma matter the lowest as Atma enveloped in booty Manus comma and stula matter so you see the process that animation describes here is that from the the reality of the admic plane which is the highest that is part of our the field of human evolution the our Consciousness that is on the admic plane gets wrapped up in this more this grosser kind of matter which is the buddhic matter then the buddhic matter gets wrapped up in the monastic matter and then uh so on until it gets enveloped by the physical matter and well this is a process like if you have your hand and then you start putting one glove on top of the other you know first a very thin glove in we but with which you may still be able to perceive subtle differences of roughness or temperature then you put another glove and then another another and the last glove is a very thick glove and that would be a metaphor for our Consciousness working through the physical body so at the core of what we are we are this admin this self but it's wrapped up in all these different kinds of matter therefore our perception is heavily conditioned when we perceive through the physical body so now the we will see a diagram that can symbolize this when a theosopher speaks of a plane he means a region throughout which Spirit matter exists all whose combinations are derived from a particular set of atoms these atoms in turn are living units whose life is the life of the logos veiled in fewer or more coverings according to the plane So based on calls what constitutes the planes Spirit Dash matter because every particle in the philosophical view doesn't only have what we would call matter but also has what we would call Spirit and also energy um so the idea is that in every atom you have the spiritual life animate in the atom of course in separate items that spiritual life manifests in a very basic way in what we call for example chemistry the chemical reactions are an expression of the Divine Life at the level at the atomic level but then as we go on and up into more and more complex organisms in the process of evolution the Divine Life that is intrinsic in the organism is able to express itself in more complex ways as we are going to see but the point here is in this diagram you you see this is just a symbolic representation of what would be a physical atom you know you have the the core of it is adman the very source of our self and the whole universe and then you have all this wrapping of matter of the different planes so the physical item would be this admin wrap tab in four more layers if we want to represent it this way and Adam on the kamik plane will have only these layers up to comma so the mental plane has fewer layers so the higher you go in the planes the Freer this Atomic principle is the less coverings it has and this is going to be important when we go into exploring the reality of Consciousness on all these different planes the cosmos is the result of the involution of the life of the logos as the insoling force in every particle and its excessive and wrapping in the spirit matter of every plane the materials of each plane have within them in a hidden or latent condition all the form and force possibilities of all the planes above them as well as those of Their Own Evolution may be summed up in a phrase it is latent potentialities becoming active powers so in religion there is always this problem of the relationship between spirit and matter and many times mother is said to be evil and in some religions is seen as absolute evil and spirit is is what is good and then there is this these two principles are are completely separate in The theosophical View the in in the very physical plane or the very physical plane is nothing but the admik principle the highest principle in in our system of evolution wrapped up in different kinds of matter so from this point of view we have that the Divine is the essence of everything you see matter or energy or or Consciousness whatever you you talk about the the Divine is the essence that is behind but also the Divine has its own um it's on reality outside the realm of matter you know on the admic plane the Divine is free from all these wrappings or the physical plane is the Divine with all these wrappings so the idea is that uh this is a concept where that is called in modern philosophy panentheism you know pantheism was the idea that the Divine was in nature but the idea that the Divine is in nature and it is not not anything more than nature is a different concept than the idea that the Divine is in nature and yet it is Transcendental so there are these two aspects and this is called now panentheism so the theosophical view could be said to be panentheistic in the sense that it postulates that the Divine is Transcendental but at the same time everything we see around is nothing but the Divine tool could you spell panen theism uh panintheism is p-a-n-pan means nature or or or the whole then and then as you know t-h-e uh Isa okay the physical plane we can now turn to the detailed examination of the physical plane that on which our world exists and to which our bodies belong examining the materials belonging to this plane we are stuck by their immense variety the innumerable differences of constitution in the objects around us out of this confusion three subdivisions of matter emerge as a fundamental classification matter is solid liquid gaseous tiny basement and her colleague LED beader they both had Clairvoyance that bitter halves especially a very deep or or let's say very developed Clairvoyant ability but Annie doesn't also had and he at the end of the 19th century they began to do some research into the nature of matter they actually they started publishing these results in theosophical journals and they actually discovered some atoms that the that's the science of the time did not know about actually one of the the scientists that won a Nobel Prize Aston when he discovered these atoms a few decades after basantly bitter published these results he mentioned that he had read their their book which is called occult chemistry which all these results were published and that he didn't know how but these people had discovered these atoms before he deal with the machine that he had built um actually he used one of the names that basically better invented for for this Adam The Meta Neon used that name uh so what what they saw when researching into the physical plane how the atoms were constituted he said there were seven states of matter the first three states of matter we all know are solid liquid and gaseous but then there are four more states of matter according to based on lead beater at the time where they were doing this research some scientists were speculating about a fourth state of matter which is what now science knows as plasma plasma is a fourth state of matter which personally better described at that time you know when when science was still trying to figure out this new state they described it as a an etheric kind of uh state so now next animation will describe these four states of matter that are beyond the the three that we normally perceive with our senses searching further we find a fourth condition ether and a minute search reveals that this ether consists in four conditions as well defined as those of solid liquid and gas so here you see the the three lower States and this is the fourth state that science was trying actually the scientist that was working on this what was William Crooks and he was a member of the theosophical society he was the one that was working on the fourth state of matter that he called radiant matter this was before they discovered the existence of electrons and and subatomic particles they thought that the atom was a solid kind of billiard ball based on the Builder said no way that the atom can be divided actually that's what they were doing by when they were trying to research into all these different states of matter they say we can divide them in the atom we can see the atom in all the different subatomic particles so the theory as I said is what we now would call plasma and then they saw that there were two other states and then there was the last state that is what they call the true Atomic um or state of matter you know the word Adam means that non-divisible when scientists got to the chemical elements they thought that they were not divisible as I just said a little billiard ball of calcium of gold of lead they thought that you could not divide those little grains of of matter and they call that atoms in time they saw that the atoms can actually be divided so in theosophy when they talk about atoms normally they talk about the ultimate particle on the physical plane that cannot be divided if you divide it you just dissolve any physical matter and that's why we are going to see next to take oxygen as an example just as it may be reduced from the gaseous condition to the liquid and the solid so it may be raised from the gaseous through four etheric stages the last of which consists of the ultimate physical atom the disintegration of the atom takes matter out of the physical plane altogether and into the next plane above so this is how the the image you see here is how they described how they saw this ultimate physical atom if we go back there were some chemists that tried to relate occur chemistry with the the knowledge of atomic nature in in regular science one of them very prominent in this field is Stefan Phillips and he said that the super etheric would be the subatomic particles by themselves like neutrons protons uh then you have the quarks that will be the subatomic and what he says is that the the the real atoms in the physical plane would be these sub quarks that science don't know anything about actually he wrote a couple of papers he called them uh omigons you know Omega is the last word in the Greek alphabet so he called this these theoretical sub quarks omicons and he says that those are the real atoms that the sunlight bidders so we don't know that yet maybe with this new particle accelerator that they built in in Europe uh that has far more energy maybe they can break down a quark for the time impact that's far beyond our current technology but they saw that the physical atom is like a like a bundle of strings and actually these scientist Phillips says that the what based on the bidders so is similar to the super string theory in quantum physics so they saw that this is is this kind of uh strings that if you look further into the streams they are formed by astral particles so if you dissolve the strings all you get is this group of Astral atoms and you don't you don't have physical matter anymore so it's like if you are removing in in that symbolic image of the atom that I showed before it's like if you are removing the the exterior coat and then you have an astral atom so this is how they they saw the constitution of physical matter and of course there are many things that come from this but we are not going to to go into those details right now building of physical forms the fashioning of materials went on for countless ages when it reaches a sufficiently advanced State we come to the evolution of form the building of organisms out of these materials so in her description of how the universe is built she says that the first thing that is built is all the atoms and all the different combinations of these atoms for all the planes so the first stage of evolution is building the atoms on the atomic plane let's say and then as you combine the those admic atoms you get all the different subplanes within the the atomic plane then you develop the buric atom and again by combination you develop all the different planes and so on until you get to the physical plane to this ultimate atoms the real atoms and then by combining these items you get the sub quarks and then the quarks and then the protons and neutrons atoms and then gases liquids and solids so that's the first stage in the manifestation of the universe the second stage as she says is using this matter to create forms to create forms that can be a vehicle of consciousness of different kinds of consciousness the monad evolves through the three Elemental Kingdoms and reached in due course the physical plane forming the first minerals that life is working in all minerals although much cribbed cabined and confined as the the universe develops forms in the theosophical view the the Divine Life begins to develop forms first on the higher planes and then little by little develops forms on the lower and lower and lower planes what we know is the mineral Kingdom that would be like the grossest aspect of of of of matter and and the organization of matter but in the theosophical view before life developed what we call mineral Kingdom it went through some invisible kingdoms or some invisible forms invisible because they belong to high airplanes not to the physical plane which are normally called in theosophy Elemental Kingdoms as we are going to see in the future in future lessons these Elemental Kingdoms are very important because they compose the subtle bodies that we have you know we have the physical body and the physical bodies is made of physical matter now we have also as we are going to see an emotional body a mental body and these bodies are made of emotional matter or mental matter and the life that animates them are these Elemental Kingdoms so it's important to keep them in mind but we are going to explore them later the point here is that what Annie besan calls the monad which is a center of Consciousness that begins the process of evolution first develops this or begins to evolve in what we call this the first Elemental Kingdom on the the higher mental plane as we are going to see then it goes on to evolving a lower uh in the lower mental plane a kingdom that is more concrete the second Elemental Kingdom then the third Elemental Kingdom is on the lower plane after the mental plane which is the astral and finally life comes to begin to evolve through the mineral Kingdom this is a point where where Consciousness is the more limited by matter in theosophy there is evolution goes in a u-shape it comes from non-material forms goes down to the material Kingdom and then it starts evolving back into non-material forms uh gradually so the first stage is coming back coming down to the mineral Kingdom great stability of form having been gained in many of the minerals the evolving monad elaborated greater plastic plasticity of form in the vegetable Kingdom combining this with stability of organization these characteristics found a yet more balanced expression in the animal world and reach their culmination of equilibrium in man so this is more or less the the story of human of evolution that we know in science you know the idea that life evolved little by little from inorganic forms into simple organic forms and then more and more complex you see the effect they face a problem it's I mean science why life evolves into forms that are more and more complex you know where bacteria for example is far more successful than a human being to to live in the world bacteria can live live in in eyes in geysers uh you know boiling water can live in any climate uh maintaining a bacteria is very cheap from an energetic point of view maintaining a human being is very complex very expensive from an energetic point of view so it's not clear why life developed into more complex forms from the point of view that science normally looks at this these things there is no really justification now from the philosophical points of view the the whole evolution is driven by Consciousness trying to express itself in more and more uh fullness so to say so in a mineral Kingdom Consciousness can only express itself in the form of what we call chemical reactions you know the minerals can respond only to very uh strong pressure or temperatures and it's a very limited response then in the vegetable Kingdom the vegetables develop the ability to respond to the Sun to weather you know there is a far more responsive activity then the animal kingdom has the ability to respond even to what we call pain and pleasure to to feelings which the vegetables are only beginning to develop and in the human Kingdom will respond not only to physical and to vital and to emotional but also to mental stimulus so we can see how Evolution goes to more complex forms so that Consciousness can expand its activities human body man's physical body has two main divisions the dance party made up of constituents from the three lower levels of the physical plane solids liquids and gases and the etheric double Violet gray or blue gray in color interpenetrating the dense body and composed of materials drawn from the four higher levels the general function of the physical body is to receive contacts from the physical world and send them inwards as materials from which the conscious entity inhabiting the body is to elaborate knowledge so we are going to see what Annie besan says here in in the the next slides but basically she's now going to examine the human body she says there are two aspects two divisions to what we call the physical body the body that that is made out of physical matter remember that we saw the there are on the physical plane sevens states of matter the three lower were the solid gas and liquid and the three higher were these different kinds of ethers so she says the dense body the body that we perceive with our five senses is formed of gases and and solids and liquids we all know that now she says there is also what she calls an etheric double a double because it follows the form of the physical body and is made of this etheric matter she says I when you sit from a clairvoyant point of view it looks like violet gray or blue gray in color and it interpenetrates the physical body and it goes a little um outside the physical body we will see a few images of this now the idea of the physical body the physical body is the interface between Consciousness and the physical world the physical play and the idea is to serve as a window through which our Consciousness can acquire experiences from the physical play if that the physical body is not working for example for any reason the brain is not working Consciousness is not really affected by it the problem is that then Consciousness cannot express itself from the physical plane therefore we are going to see that the the the way in which the physical body is built is important for Consciousness because the bodies at the same time a window and a limitation if you have a window that allows you to look outside if the window is small or is dirty it it imposes a limitation on you if the window is wide and and clear then it allows you to see more of the the the external world so the physical body has a similar function as we are going to see so let's see about the the aesthetic body it's the etheric portion has also the duty of acting as a medium through which the life currents poured out of the sun can be adapted to the uses of the organism the sun is the great reservoir of the electrical magnetic and vital forces of our system and it pours out abundantly these streams of life-giving energy they are taken in by the etheric doubles of all minerals vegetables animals and men and are by them transmuted into the various life energies needed by each entity this appropriated life is called Prana so the the ideas are there is what we call Vitality in Western philosophy there is always this problem whether uh life is an independent principle or not in science in current science most scientists say that that life is not an independent principle it's just a function of the chemistry of the body but several philosophers even in the quite dominated by the scientific view the the materialistic scientific view several philosophers a postulated that life is an independent principle and that's what theosophy was saying from the the late 19th century there is a vital principle which comes from the Sun so from the sun we don't we don't only have the the light which uh the plants and some bacterium fungi generate or you by means of the photosynthesis generate mass that we and then the animals eat and that then we we can eat from it so the sun is the source of Life at the physical level the generation of biomass but also the sun generates this Vitality that we call Prana now this Vitality is is generated in a kind of raw state it is the aesthetic double that we we have with the physical the one that transmutes this work Vitality into a form that the the body and the cells can use so one of the the the function of the etheric double is to transmute this raw Parana so that it can be used by the organism whether it is in a plant or in in an animal or in a human being the etheric doubles draw in specialize and distribute them over their physical counterparts it has been observed that invigorous Health much more of the life energies are transmuted than the physical body requires for its own support and that the Surplus is right out and is taken up and utilized by the weaker this is something that they have observed clairvoyantly that some people generate more Prana or transforms transmute more Prana that they can use so around people who have good health there is like like an atmosphere of Vitality and many times people who get close to to to these healthy people they they can use this surplus of Vitality so it's some kind of sharing that we do unconsciously this the aesthetic double and this surplus of Vitality is part of why we could call the health Aura is part of the aura's Annie besant is going to explain what is technically called the health Aura is the part of the etheric double that extends a few inches from the whole surface of the body and shows radiating lines like the radii of a sphere going outwards in all directions these lines droop when Vitality is diminished below the point of health and resume their radiating character with renewed vigor so here you have a artistic representation of the aesthetic double as you see it goes a few inches outside the body it is seen normally as radiant and around it you have the this Prana especially in people who are in good health the the other image you have here is an actual photograph with a special method that is called called the Killian method and this the Killian method of photography perceives a little aura around different objects even plants or minerals and it's possible that that aura is the aesthetic double I'm not completely sure if it is a whole etheric double or it is the magnetic activity that comes out of of our our body which nevertheless is related to the aesthetic double so here is this is a thumb that is pressed on the photographic plaque or plague that that they use and you can see that there is a radiation from the center outside as any person describes and this would be the Prana that is circulating through the E30 double when a person is enough is not in good health that radiation is diminished in the thickness of it and also begins to not to be so straight out but be kind of curvy and uh so that's these are since the aesthetic double is still within the physical plane it can be perceived by by physical instruments when we come to other subtle or subtler bodies uh then it's a little more difficult to be able to perceive them with physical matter it is this vital energy specialized by the etheric double which is poured out by the mesmerer mesmerizer for the restoration of the weak and for the Cure of disease although he often mingles with it currents of a more rarefied kind hence the depletion of vital energy shown by the exhaustion of the mesmerizer who prolongs his work to excess at the the end of the 19th century this idea of mesmerism was quite well known Mesmer was a scientist that had developed the idea of what he called animal magnetism because he said is today maybe we would call it biomagnetism by animal he meant it's a kind of magnetism not the one that comes from magnets from minerals but it's a magnetism that belongs to biological entities and he was talking basically about Prana The Prana that is specialized in our etheric double and that we can pass on to another person now the problem is that if you pass on your partner to another person you are depleting yourself of energy uh if you have this Surplus you you can do it without you know any damage to yourself but if you do it too much then you you lose your Vitality now she says so the technique that the mesmerism uses is a quite rough technique just by using your willpower you project your Prana uh she says that sometimes a moral ratified kind of energy may be moved I suppose that she's talking more about the like the the the the universal Prana that is around later in the 20th century different methods of energy healing were developed and most of them claim that they are not using the the your own Prana your own Vitality that they are using more you know the general Vitality around so I don't know enough about these methods and I'm not Clairvoyant to determine whether you know one technique would move one or the other kind of energy but it does seem to there seems to be these two possibilities if you are using Your vitality that may not be very good for you if you have access to this this more Collective Vitality then that shouldn't be a problem man's body is fine and coarse in its texture according to the materials drawn from the physical plane for its composition each subdivision of matter yields finer or coarser materials a coarse body can be refined a refined body coarsened the body is constantly changing each particle is a life and the lives come and go they are drawn to a body consonant with themselves they are repelled from one discordant with themselves so here we comes to an interesting concept you know as we said our physical body is made of all of matter from all these different seven states which in theosophy these seven different states of matter of a particular plane in this case a physical plane they are called called subplanes so there are seven subplanes within a plane so we have mattered from all in all the different states from all the different subplanes but within each one of these subplanes there are there is matter that has a different kind of let's say magnetism so we have physical or or solid matter uh or liquid matter you know to talk about states of matter we have solid matter which can be purer or coarser from a spiritual point of view if you see the atom the atoms will be exactly the same but the kind of magnetism that they have Associated seems to be different so as we go through life it seems that the body begins to act as a kind of filter and we change the the kind of atoms that are vibrating with the the particular rate of magnetism that your body has and let's let's go of the atoms that are either subtler or or Grocer in in the magnetism than the ones that that you normally have so you can but uh we are going to see what determines that that I am magnetism in your body but your body may become subtler or coarser from an esoteric point of view at the level of atoms you just have atoms but from the point of view of how they the magnetism that is associated to them uh you can purify your body or make it coarser according to certain facts that we are going to see a pure body repels coarse particles because they vibrate at rates discordant with its own a coarse body attracts them because their vibrations occurred with its own hence if the body changes its Rate rates of vibration it gradually drives out of it the constituents that cannot fall into the new Rhythm and fills up their places by drawing in from external nature fresh constituents that are harmonious nature provides materials vibrating in all possible ways and each body exercise its own selective action so this is a principle that we we will see applied to all the different aspects of of what we call a human being the there is some kind of vibration if we want to pull it put it in this way that Consciousness can impose on the vehicles of Consciousness meaning the physical body or as we are going to see the emotional body the mental body and according to that that vibration that Consciousness imposes is the kind of matter that will be attracted to the body now that matter itself will become a hindrance or will become a helping factor in the expression of consciousness so it's a little like you know if you want to run a marathon you have to reshape your body so that the body doesn't become an obstacle for that if if you don't work on your body and you want to run a marathon you you won't be able to do it or it will be very difficult so in the same way if you want to generate an awareness a perception that can can perceive the subtly aspects of life then you you have to make your body able to respond to this kind of perception to this kind of activity so in the theosophical view it's not only a question of Consciousness or it's not only a question of matter Consciousness and matter are constantly interacting because these are two aspects of a single principle and we need to pay attention to both aspects you know from from this point of view so she will explain a little more about this by his thoughts he strikes the keynote of his music and sets up The rhythms that are the most powerful factors in the continual changes in his physical and other bodies as his knowledge increases he learns how to build up his physical body with Pure Food and self-facilitates the tuning of it he learns to live by the Axiom of purification Pure Food pure mind and constant memory of God that's a saying from from Hinduism that they use sometimes similar to from the Greeks you know a healthy mind in a healthy body or and so the idea is that the the kind of the level of of Consciousness in which we live during our daily life sets the the vibration that that we that that we have on the physical play and that tends to generate uh in our physical body that kind of vibration so when we eat or when we breathe in or you know all the ways that we interchange matter with the environment the body will tend to retain the items that are as we said in tune with that vibration that is set by consciousness now if you eat or if you are in a very polluted environment of course the the percentage of of healthy atoms let's say will be less than if you are in in a healthy environment same with the food there is there is certain kind of food that because of the way it is it is you know because of the source the way it is prepared it tends to attract the the kind of coarser atoms so if you eat that food then your Consciousness has less proportion of good items to choose from so the idea here is that there are two aspects to which we can pay attention to make sure that our Consciousness Works in a higher state you know not negative emotions or negative thoughts try to encourage the positive emotions and the positive thoughts so then that has an impact on the body but at the same time try to provide the body as Pure Food and exercise as you are able to because the physical body May many times becomes a hindrance for what Consciousness wants to do or may help what you know the sensitivity of consciousness the more Impressions the body can answer to the more useful does it become for only those two which it can answer can reach the Consciousness not yet is developed the perfect body that shall thrill to every pulse in nature the vibrations that the body is able to receive is transmitted to physical centers the etheric vibrations which accompany all the vibrations of the denser physical constituents are similarly received by the etheric double and transmuted to its corresponding centers the etheric also passes on the vibrations to the astral body once as we shall see later they reach the mind so first is the idea that our physical body our Consciousness can communicate with the physical plane through the physical body as we said if our physical bodies is dull it is insensitive then there are many things that are missed by our Consciousness this is why many spiritual teachers talk about the the need to become more sensitive in life of course this sensitivity begins with Consciousness if our awareness is asleep Works in a mechanical way then we we are not sensitive to things around just because we don't perceive them we don't perceive how you know what our actions are producing around we don't perceive what is going on in the outside you know world so part of the work is as we are going to see to develop on becoming more and more aware at the same time our body needs to become more sensitive so that that our Consciousness can relate to the world from a deeper point from a deeper perspective and then the etheric double when we perceive things through the physical body that produces a reaction on the aesthetic double and then the aesthetic double produces a reaction on the emotional body which is the next one that comes and then that one on the mental body and that's how we perceive things at the at the intellectual level as we are going to see but the point here is that in the philosophical view there is usually a balanced view of the body neither to think that is the the most important aspect nor to think that is useless for the spiritual life but so little is man yet developed that even the etheric double is not yet sufficiently harmonized to regularly convey to Consciousness Impressions received by it independently of its denser comrade or to impress them on his brain occasionally it succeeds in doing so and then we have the lowest form of Clairvoyance the scene of the etheric doubles of physical objects and of things that have etheric bodies as their lowest Vester as we are going to see there are senses on each one of the bodies normally we perceive through our physical senses because the senses on all these other bodies are not developed when this the aesthetic senses begin to develop the person has what we could call a kind of etheric Clairvoyance that person can see the aesthetic double of objects or people but in in at this point in evolution we in the philosophical view we are only halfway in the process of evolution the the senses that are are fully developed are only the physical and the other senses are going to be developed little by little in evolution the physical brain is the instrument of Consciousness and Waking Life on the physical plane and Consciousness Works in it in the average person more effectively than in any other vehicle its potentialities are less than those of the subtle vehicles but its actualities are greater and the man knows himself as I in the physical body air he finds himself he finds himself elsewhere so at this point in evolution the body that is working most effectively is the physical body in in most people although the physical barriers we are going to see is the most limited of all the bodies is even the thetric body is not it's not subject to so many limitations of the physical and list of all the the emotional or astral body and the mental bodies although the physical body is the most limited of them in most people the physical body say the the one that is developed uh to to a greater extent so for all practical purposes a physical body is far far better than the inner bodies but as a person begins to walk the the spiritual path then things change so in in our next meeting we are going to explore the next plane the astral plane the characteristics and the different um kind of entities and energies that are there as well as the the astral body the the next subtle body as we are going to see this is connected to our emotions so we we are going to begin to explore how we can work on the emotions so that the emotional body just as whistled with the physical body uh the emotional body can be purified so that it becomes a better instrument of Consciousness um and that's more or less a pattern that she will follow for the the next planes so we will see some practical aspects uh for each chapter