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The Mental Body
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First published January 1, 1927
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July 12, 2009
This is series of 5 books edited by Colonel Arthur E. Powell. He very methodically combined information from a number of theosophical authors in the early part of the 20th century. These books are a wealth of esoteric information. They are more head centered than heart centered. However these books must be read in the following order: Etheric Double, Astral Body, Mental Body, Causal Body, and Solar System. Each builds on the last. Although not all are mentioned in Goodreads, I recommend ordering the Quest book editions. You can get them on Amazon or from Quest Books.
First published in 1927 this book covers the mental body, its constitution and function, its use during sleep, and its use after death. There is much information on thought-forms. It also covers the lower mental plane (concrete thought) and its inhabitants. It is a good basic book on the mental body and the lower mental plane.
First published in 1927 this book covers the mental body, its constitution and function, its use during sleep, and its use after death. There is much information on thought-forms. It also covers the lower mental plane (concrete thought) and its inhabitants. It is a good basic book on the mental body and the lower mental plane.
October 8, 2012
Throw out your worn out concept of Heaven as being a sterile place where stagnation and atrophy rule. If you want a travelers guide to a place of wonder and awe beyond the familiar, this book is for you.
The book starts out with a general description of the 5th dimension, the closer you move toward fantasy like conditions, the closer you move towards the "source" . In our minds, fantasy means freedom, and what is more free than the source of ALL-THAT-IS. This text describes the mechanics of the heaven world, and the reason why it exist. It is by far the most detailed view of the 5th dimension that I have ever read. There are 5th dimensional schools where neoteric definitions of joy are explored, and the over all central theme is how to be co-creators with God. You learn how universes are created, and the mechanics of such things. Imagine a course in Universe creation 101, then a course in time manipulation 102, how about a curriculum in how to maintain your focus in parallel reality awareness. These courses can be followed up with a seminar in past lives as current identity extensions.
Think about an art class for Souls, you would paint with dimensions and time points, the way a painter paints with different color paints. One swipe of your cosmic brush and worlds are manifested waiting for life forms to inhabit them. The chapter on the Akashic records, or as the Bible calls it, The book of life, was noteworthy. Imagine a multidimensional recording system that can record every event in infinite detail that happens in any system of reality. Now imagine having an intimate multisensual experience of those events at will.
The text also talks about raw creative energy that can be used in infinite ways. This raw creative energy can be used and formed into many expressions, in some worlds it would appears as visual art, in another world it appears as music, in another world it appears as a forest, and in other worlds it would appear as a social movement. The book covers the means and ways as to what a Soul does at this level of nature. If you "want" a Heaven where you float around on clouds, and drink milk and honey all throughout eternity, and all growth and development are stopped, then this book is not for you. The book covers the inhabitants, the scenery, the 7 different levels of heaven, as well as how abstract thoughts becomes tangible things that live. The book ends by beginning to outline what happens when you out grow the Heaven world and 5th dimensional consciousness, and what the next level (Buddhic plane) of nature has to offer.
If you want to you can download the book, or just look at it for you own edification.
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/theosoph...
The book starts out with a general description of the 5th dimension, the closer you move toward fantasy like conditions, the closer you move towards the "source" . In our minds, fantasy means freedom, and what is more free than the source of ALL-THAT-IS. This text describes the mechanics of the heaven world, and the reason why it exist. It is by far the most detailed view of the 5th dimension that I have ever read. There are 5th dimensional schools where neoteric definitions of joy are explored, and the over all central theme is how to be co-creators with God. You learn how universes are created, and the mechanics of such things. Imagine a course in Universe creation 101, then a course in time manipulation 102, how about a curriculum in how to maintain your focus in parallel reality awareness. These courses can be followed up with a seminar in past lives as current identity extensions.
Think about an art class for Souls, you would paint with dimensions and time points, the way a painter paints with different color paints. One swipe of your cosmic brush and worlds are manifested waiting for life forms to inhabit them. The chapter on the Akashic records, or as the Bible calls it, The book of life, was noteworthy. Imagine a multidimensional recording system that can record every event in infinite detail that happens in any system of reality. Now imagine having an intimate multisensual experience of those events at will.
The text also talks about raw creative energy that can be used in infinite ways. This raw creative energy can be used and formed into many expressions, in some worlds it would appears as visual art, in another world it appears as music, in another world it appears as a forest, and in other worlds it would appear as a social movement. The book covers the means and ways as to what a Soul does at this level of nature. If you "want" a Heaven where you float around on clouds, and drink milk and honey all throughout eternity, and all growth and development are stopped, then this book is not for you. The book covers the inhabitants, the scenery, the 7 different levels of heaven, as well as how abstract thoughts becomes tangible things that live. The book ends by beginning to outline what happens when you out grow the Heaven world and 5th dimensional consciousness, and what the next level (Buddhic plane) of nature has to offer.
If you want to you can download the book, or just look at it for you own edification.
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/theosoph...
August 4, 2013
il fascino di questo libro è nella sua capacità di spiegare gli insegnamenti della materia(corpo) mentale .Stupisce per la sua "semplice" complessità. gli esempi rendo il testo scorrevole e per nulla pesante...e in questa materia spesso i testi èhanno un costrutto estremamente complesso.Ottimo
May 19, 2023
A successor volume to The Etheric Double: The Health Aura of Man and The Astral Body: And Other Astral Phenomena, this 1927 text takes us to the next plane of reality in the sevenfold structure presented by the Theosophists. As with the previous volumes, this one represents a distillation of teachings combed from about 40 different Theosophical texts and presented in an orderly, logical way. For almost every paragraph there is a marginal notation of what the source of the material is, so that the reader can delve deeper there if he so chooses. Meanwhile, you get a very good, clear overview of the mental body and the mental world.
The mental world, like the physical world we're familiar with and the astral world "above" that (these worlds actually coexist in the same space, but at different levels of fineness of their respective matter), is ordered into seven subplanes, also graded by level of fineness of matter. As with the astral world, we all live in the mental world already in the sense that we possess a "mental body"--a distinct body composed of mental matter--and to the extent that we think thoughts. The more abstract, accurate, and selfless those thoughts are, the more fully we are engaging in the mental world. According to the Theosophists, when we die, we spend time first in the astral world, the world of emotions and desires, which functions as a kind of purgatory, then our astral body dies, and we reawaken then on the mental plane, which we experience as heaven. The "seven heavens" are the seven planes of the mental world; the one we occupy during the time before our next physical birth depends on the the level of development of our mental body.
It's fascinating, mind-expanding, and thought-provoking stuff. Everyone who has an interest in spiritual life should read this book--but only after the two previous volumes!
The mental world, like the physical world we're familiar with and the astral world "above" that (these worlds actually coexist in the same space, but at different levels of fineness of their respective matter), is ordered into seven subplanes, also graded by level of fineness of matter. As with the astral world, we all live in the mental world already in the sense that we possess a "mental body"--a distinct body composed of mental matter--and to the extent that we think thoughts. The more abstract, accurate, and selfless those thoughts are, the more fully we are engaging in the mental world. According to the Theosophists, when we die, we spend time first in the astral world, the world of emotions and desires, which functions as a kind of purgatory, then our astral body dies, and we reawaken then on the mental plane, which we experience as heaven. The "seven heavens" are the seven planes of the mental world; the one we occupy during the time before our next physical birth depends on the the level of development of our mental body.
It's fascinating, mind-expanding, and thought-provoking stuff. Everyone who has an interest in spiritual life should read this book--but only after the two previous volumes!
October 16, 2012
A. E. Powell is my favorite of the Theosophists. His writing is the most concise on an otherwise very esoteric topic.
I've read every book in this series: The Etheric Double, The Astral Body, The Mental Body, and The Casual Body.
I've read every book in this series: The Etheric Double, The Astral Body, The Mental Body, and The Casual Body.
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