Elements Of Being Quotes

“Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuit

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

“[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