25.
The container of self and your four lower bodies
NOTE: This
is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
The lower figure in the chart represents you, the evolving lifestream.
The chart shows your lifestream at its highest potential, meaning that
you are free of the consciousness of duality and have put on the mind
of Christ. Thus, your lower being reflects the perfection of your higher
Being. You can be here below all that you are Above.
The Vitruvian man by Leonardo DaVinci symbolizes your lower being in
a perfectly balanced state. The figure is surrounded by a circle, which
represents the oneness of the spiritual realm. The square represents
the material universe, created from the “squaring of the circle,”
namely the process whereby Spirit becomes matter.
The square symbolizes the four basic elements, namely fire, air, water
and Earth. This represents the four levels of the material realm and
your four lower “bodies,” namely your identity body, your
mental body, your emotional body and your physical body.
The lower figure on the chart is what might be called your container
of self. It contains your four lower bodies. These are interpenetrating
energy bodies that co-exist in the same space because they vibrate at
different levels of frequencies:
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The
identity body, also called the etheric body. The contents
of your identity body define your sense of identity. How do you
see yourself, how do you see God, how do you see the world and how
do you see the interaction between them? Do you see yourself as
a spiritual being who is here to take dominion over the Earth or
do you see yourself as a material being, a product of the Earth
with no power to change it?
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The
mental body contains your thoughts. It is here you form
a mental image of the specific things you want to do in the material
world and how to accomplish them. This mental image will be based
upon your sense of identity, which defines parameters for what you
think you can or cannot do. Thus, if you identify yourself as a
human being, you will limit what you think you can do.
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The
emotional body
is obviously the seat of your feelings. Emotion means Energy in
MOTION. Your thoughts are mental images, but in order to become
actions or manifest forms, they must be set in motion, and this
happens at the level of the emotional body. However, this body also
contains your desires, and they can conflict with your higher goals.
Ideally, your emotions should be reflections of your thoughts that
are reflections of your sense of identity that again is a reflection
of your Divine individuality. Yet it is common that the emotions
take on a life of their own and seek to run your life instead of
being controlled by your thoughts.
- The
conscious mind and physical body.
For many people, most of their sense of identity, thoughts and emotions
are hidden below the threshold of conscious awareness. Thus, they
do not understand the process that leads to a conscious thought, feeling
and action. This means they have little power to control their actions,
which simply flow from processes that are subconscious. People can
only watch as their subconscious minds run their lives.
The key to
controlling your conscious mind and your actions is to push back the
threshold of conscious awareness so you begin to understand what goes
on in the higher bodies and can begin to consciously control it. Your
conscious self is perfectly capable of doing this, as it can project
itself anywhere it can imagine.
26.
How you lost contact with your spiritual self
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