Elements Of Being Quotes

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Seneca
“Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuit

No great talent without an element of madness”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Paramahansa Yogananda
“[The causal] body is a matrix of the 35 ideas required by God as the basic or causal thought forces.

The subtle astral body [has] 19 elements

The gross physical body [has] 16 elements. [These are] 16 gross metallic and nonmetallic elements.

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The 19 elements of the astral body are mental, emotional and lifetronic. The 19 components are:
[1] Intelligence
[2] ego
[3] feeling
[4] mind (sense-cosnciousness)
[5-9] five intruments of knowledge, the subtle counterparts of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, aste, touch,
[10-14] five instruments of action, the mental correspondence for the executive abilities to procreate, excrete, talk, walk and exercise manual skill
[15-19] five instruments of life force, those empowered to perform the crystallizing assimilating, eliminating, metabolizing, and circulating functions of the body.

pg424, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi