101-5 Reflection notes - The Three Centers of Prana

The three centers of prana receive and circulate it between this triangle and then transmit it to the etheric body. They are the center between the shoulder blades, the center immediately above the diaphragm, and the etheric spleen.

The center between the shoulder blades is affected by our thought currents. The center above the diaphragm is affected by our emotions. And the etheric spleen is affected by the physical environment surrounding us such as the quality of the air, the emanations of people whom we contact, and what we put into our systems when we eat, and drink. We can see that the three centers of prana interact correspondingly to the mental body, the emotional body, and the physical-etheric body.

Mentor's comment: This is a very good and clear explanation of the etheric pranic triangle. On this is based much of the healing and wellness of the body and later, on the condition of our senses. It is always good to keep this in our minds and build on it.

Our etheric web is like the medium that connects all the levels in our energy systems, and thus it is related to the conditions of our vehicles. Therefore, in order to have a healthy etheric body, we should take care of our three bodies and be careful with what we put into them.

In order to have a healthy mental body, we should train and purify our mind by practicing meditation, mindfulness, and clear and right thinking. Through meditation, we let the light of our souls illuminate our minds. Our motives should be consistently examined to make sure that they are beautiful, truthful, righteous, and benevolent from the higher self. We can also cultivate our minds with noble thoughts from spiritual literature and writings from wise sages. The realization of Oneness and Interconnectedness will end all separatism, helping us see Divinity in ourselves and in all beings, leading us to inclusiveness and respect.

Mentor's comment: Yes, this is very clear and well-articulated.  We can see clearly how a well-cared for mind helps us to translate what we experience in the Higher Worlds. Clearing our all deceptive thinking, illusions, ego and vanity removes these “germs” from our mental body.

In order to have a healthy astral body, we should keep our hearts pure with pure and elevated emotions. That can be done by calming all the toxic fires of hatred, anger, fear, and envy with the spring of sweet compassionate love and the cold light of divine indifference and discernment.

Mentor's comment: Yes, this is so important to keep in mind.  Consider how glamors and attachments pollute our emotional body and pulls us into the lower astral worlds.

For a healthy physical body, we should have a balanced lifestyle with regular exercises, sunbath, clean food, enough sleep and rest. It would be good if we can live close to nature with fresh air. Our sexual energy should also be saved for spiritual development. All things that are dangerous for our awareness and self-control such as alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, should be avoided.

Mentor's comment: Yes, very clear and well defined. Our physical health is so important to carry us through our life.

For our overall well-being, it is advised to practice harmlessness in all that we think, speak and do; having periodical fasting in silence as a withdrawal from the personality life to cultivate our inner and higher life; and doing creative labor as a way for joyful self-expression. Whatever we are doing, if we do it with all our heart, mind and being, we then become a  channel for divine energy to flow and manifest out into the world.

On the other hand, we should be careful to contact with the right people and the right objects as they all carry energies that can affect us positively or negatively.

It is also recommended that we use the right colors and right music for purifying our etheric body. It is because every color and music has their own ray and quality. If we know our Soul ray and use the right colors and music accordingly, by the law of resonance, they can have beneficial and healing impact for our bodies.

Mentor's comment: Yes, beautiful.

Questions:

1. I have a concern about cannabis/marijuana as it is legalized in Thailand. I feel that something is wrong with this, but I am a little bit confused as there are some arguments about its beneficial use in medical treatment. So, I just would like to know your opinion about this.

Mentor's answer: Yes, it is very dangerous to the subtle bodies. It is being legalized everywhere and the money makers are making money from the damage to humanity. Torkom has a magnificent lecture about “Why Drugs are Dangerous” and it is reprinted in a Chapter in Esoteric Science of Healing. I think you have that book and if so, take a look at it. Drugs damage our subtle bodies so our next incarnation we have damaged bodies.

2. If elementals belong to the angel evolution, why it will be human in a next manvantara?

Mentor's answer: The Secret Doctrine teaches that all evolution must go through the human kingdom. Consider what is learned in the human bodies and how we manage to build our mental mechanism. Without a mind, logic, reasoning, and ability to know to differentiate, there is no intelligence that is being used. Think of this and how important the human process is. In this, we learn first hand what is the purpose of life.

3. I read the books on Solar Angel about the sacred marriage between the Solar Angel and the human soul and I have some questions. I am confused because I read that at the 4th initiation, our Solar Angel will activate our 2 polarities so that we can become a hermaphrodite spiritually. And our Solar Angel is even beyond a 4th-degree initiate, why does It still have a polarity (feminine or masculine)?

Our Solar Angel is with us all the time through ages. And as the soul has no gender, we can incarnate in some lives as male and in other lives as female. So, it is true that even the soul has no gender, it still has polarity? And if so, is it true that only in a life that we have a gender with the opposite polarity of the polarity of the Solar Angel, the Soul Union can happen?

Mentor's answer: Polarity is science. There is no attraction to create new life forms if there is no polarity.

The story of the Solar Angel and the human soul is so confused in all the Teachings except Torkom’s work. In brief:

The human soul is part of the human development and is built in the Chalice.

The Solar Angel is the Teacher of the human being, until the human soul is built.

At the 4th initiation, the Solar Angel leaves because the human soul is now a Soul and is in the Triad.

These lessons will come to you in time.

Good work.

101-4 Reflection notes - Prana and the Etheric Body

The etheric body receives solar prana from the Sun (focused by the golden devas) and planetary prana from the earth (focused by the violet devas). Then it assimilates these two pranas, vitalizing all the cells of the physical body with them, as well as transmitting them to lesser devas and to the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. 

We nourish the devas through our beneficial and sacrificial selfless thoughts, words, and actions. In their turns, the devas vitalize us with their magnetism, lifting us up to higher knowledge and wisdom, helping us communicating with our and others’ souls, warning and protecting us from dangers.

Through the constant absorbing, circulating, emanating and transmitting energies in and out, the etheric body creates an electromagnetic field around the physical body. This electromagnetic sphere works as a uniting field that integrates all the parts of the physical body. This electromagnetic field also acts as a medium for contact and communication to higher planes in the future of human development. It is because the 4 lower etheric levels are the lower reflection of the 4 higher ethers which are substances of the 4 higher Intuitional, Atmic, Monadic and Divine planes.

Until we are purified and having developed continuity in consciousness for safely and consciously entering into the astral and mental worlds, the etheric body acts as a protective barrier, preventing those fiery astral and mental forces from destroying our unready centers. It is because the electromagnetic sphere of the etheric body works as a buffer that could assimilate and step down the intense fiery forces of the astral and mental worlds so that the physical body can receive without being burned nor damaged. 

Mentor's comment: This essay is a very good and clear explanation of how the etheric body works. It is one of the most important topics in the first year of study. Keep this very clear in your mind as you study more and more of the etheric body.

Question: I’m a little bit concern about the warning on practicing Hatha Yoga in this Chapter. I am practicing some basic yoga asanas such as salutation to the Sun and i find it quite helpful and safe. I’ve also seen that Hatha Yoga is quite popular and being taught in every yoga center in my city. I am not so sure about its dangers. So it would be great if you could explain a little bit about this issue. I just would like to hear your opinion about practicing yoga in those meditation and yoga centers nowaday, as many of them demonstrate the healing effects. Thank you very much!

Mentor's answer: The practice of Yoga is another topic that all students have to be cleared about. Torkom writes about these in Talks in Agni volume 1. It is very clear. If modern people practice the ancient yoga, they are endangering themselves to over cement their physical bodies with the etheric body. The intention of the ancient yoga was to solidify the connection as it was loose at that time. 

Nowadays, no one teaches the real yoga. If you do the stretches and salutations, they are OK. However, when there is intentional emphasis on centers, the head and heart centers, one is over-stimulating these centers. In our modern life, we do not need to stimulate any centers, but allow them to function naturally and from natural growth and as a result of inner growth and physical balance.

Hatha yoga emphasizes center opening. This is not the right practice for modern students. The dangers involved are opening centers prematurely before the bodies are able to absorb extra energy; the mixing of centers before they are strong and ready; the tearing of the protective shields between the subtle bodies and then there is astral leakage.

All of these you will be studying in the lessons coming up. 

Do exercise, stretch and walk and run and swim; these are better than yogas.

I have spoken to many, many confused and truly endangered people. Once they get into danger, they never listen.

I hope this helps.

101-3 Reflection notes - The Etheric Body

What is sublimation, and the stages of sublimation?

Sublimation is the purifying and refining process of the etheric body, which is essential for higher contact. There are 4 stages of sublimation.

The 1st stage of sublimation: the inflow of the Intuitional Light (the 4th Cosmic Ether) into the 4th lower etheric level (the chemical ether). The chemical ether is very sensitive to colors, which often change into sounds in the inner ear. When this stage happens to a higher degree - a higher percentage of intuitional substance penetrates and increases in the 4th etheric level, we will hear the colors, see the sounds, also we hear the thoughts of other people. Colors is allied to the 4th ether.

The 2nd stage of sublimation: the inflow of the 3rd Cosmic Ether (on the Atmic Plane) into the 3rd lower etheric level (the life ether). As this life ether is connected to the generative organs and seminal fluids, this ether helps us to propagate. The life ether is also the conductor of sound and is closely related to the eyes and vision. Sound functions through the 3rd ether. The result of this 2nd stage is that we develop higher clairvoyance.

The 3rd stage of sublimation: the inflow of the 2nd Cosmic Ether (on the Monadic Plane) into the 2nd lower etheric level (the light ether). Light closely connects with and uses the 2nd ether as a medium. The electricity of this light ether supplies heat to the body. This light ether is closely related to the nervous system and the muscles, and connecting the physical body and the outside world. The result of this 3rd stage is that we develop divine vision and healing powers.

The 4th stage of sublimation: the inflow of the 1st Cosmic Ether (on the Adi or Divine Plane) into the 1st lower etheric level (the reflecting ether). The electricity passing through this ether enables the soul to control its vehicles by thoughts. This ether can store memories. The result of this 4th stage is that we develop the power of pure Intuition and the memory of past lives.

How is continuity of consciousness achieved?

Continuity of consciousness is achieved on all planes when the 4 Higher (Cosmic) Etheric and the 4 lower etheric layers are blended within each other, and the Higher Etheric Ethers (particles of electrical Fire) replace the lower etheric ethers. Thus, the lower etheric body is the continuation of the Cosmic Ethers. Through continuity of consciousness, man becomes aware of the activities of various Ashrams existing on the Intuitional and higher Planes, in the Hierarchy and in Shamballa. 

When the etheric body is built with the Higher Ethers, there would be no sickness or disorder as the person radiates healing energies, light, love, peace, serenity, and purifying and uplifting powers into his environment.

How is the refinement of the etheric body carried out?

The refinement of the etheric body is carried out through meditation, lofty aspiration, right diet, sunshine, fresh air, exercise, striving toward perfection, the influence of the 7th ray, right relations with others as well as with Nature, closer relationship with higher devas and angels.

Meditation: As we meditate, we calm and align our etheric body to become a more receptive and effective instrument that the higher ethers can flow with fewer obstacles and hindrances.

Lofty aspiration: such as unifying with Divine, sacrifice and service aspiration are upward-moving flows of aspiring energy. Thus, lofty aspiration facilitates the contact of the Higher Ethers and these Cosmic Ethers are called to respond and pour down to the lower etheric layers.

Right diet: All the food we eat have their own vibrations which is essential for constituting our etheric-physical body. We should eat high-vibration food such as fresh, organic vegetables, and avoid low-vibration food such as meat, industrial, processed food to maintain high vibrations for our etheric-physical body.

Sunshine, fresh air, exercise: these help circulate the prana or living energy throughout the body, revitalizing and dispelling the stagnant or blockages in our energy system.

Striving toward perfection is the refining and purifying all of the lower bodies so that they become purer and the true reflection of the Higher Archetype. This process should take place in all of our 3 lower bodies, in which the physical-etheric body is one of them.

The influence of the 7th ray: The 7th ray is the ray of synthesis, unifying the low and the high, manifesting the higher spiritual ideals onto the lower matter plane. The cycle of the 7th ray is active now, coincident with the incoming Aquarian Age, with the influence of Uranus as the Aquarian ruler, also transmitting the 7th ray. Thus, these astrological and ray cycles will help in facilitating the refinement process on Earth, through spiritualizing the physical plane, bringing and creating heaven on Earth.

Right relations with others as well as with Nature: the right relation here is manifested through goodwill, love, care and sharing. When these virtues are shining among humanity, we would have peace on earth, and nature would be cared and protected. Thus the etheric body of humanity would be strengthened through peace and vitality of the environment and Nature.

A closer relationship with higher devas and angels: As higher devas and angels are higher builders of our higher bodies, the closer relationship with them help bring higher substances from higher cosmic etheric levels into our lower etheric layers, thus transforming and purifying them.

What are the 8 radiant signs of health?

The 8 radiant signs of Health in Nature are: 

Symmetry

Rhythm

Cycle

Harmony of lines, cycles and colors

Palpitation - the expanding and contracting vibrations regulated by the heart

Clear and living color of the vibration

Clear and harmonious sound of the subtle bodies

Sweet fragrance, the result of the vibration of the vehicles under the impact of higher ethers, can be detected through astral smell.

To a higher clairvoyant, these signs demonstrate on the person’s aura as colors, pulsation and currents of energy.