'Now, let us look at the way our lower Self, the personality, was formed. Originally, it was an emanation, a secretion of the Spirit. When the Spirit wished to express itself it had to form an appropriate vehicle for each one of the spheres through which it had to pass in its descent to earth... [...]
You must learn to work on your etheric body: I have already given you all kinds of methods for this, using water, the earth or the flame of a candle, etc. If, for example, you have a pain somewhere, you can concentrate mentally on your etheric body and send it beams of light of every [...]
... And now let’s interpret this little story. The house is the physical body; the maid is the heart, the man-servant is the mind; the mistress of the house is the soul and the master is the spirit. The spirit often leaves us, and when it is away the soul is lonely and feels abandoned. [...]
The heart and the soul are both vehicles of our emotions, feelings and desires. The heart is the seat of our ordinary, earthly emotions and the soul is the seat of our divine, spiritual emotions and impulses. The same sort of distinction must be made between the mind and the spirit: the mind is the [...]
Humans possess several different souls. The first of these, the vital soul, is purely vegetative. The second is more highly evolved and is known as the animal soul; the third is the sensitive or emotional soul; the fourth is known as the rational or reasonable soul, and, finally, there is the divine soul, the soul [...]
The Seven Bodies of Man in relation to the Three Divisions of Christian Theology Consciousness, as we have seen, is like an inner screen and all that goes on in a human being is projected onto it. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that not everything that goes on in a person is [...]
'To 'know oneself' is to become conscious of the different bodies of which we are composed, from the subtlest to the densest or most opaque, to be conscious of the principles which inform them, of the needs we experience because of them and of the states of consciousness which correspond to each one. It should [...]
'This table contains a unified, coordinated picture of the principal elements of our physical and, especially, our psychic life, which are usually scattered and disconnected. Of course there are a certain number of notions that you will not find in it, but you can, at least, see where the different levels or degrees of consciousness fit [...]
'Our Identity', 'Our Higher and Lower Self'. This is the theme from the SynoSphere that we will be exploring during the month of March. The Master explained this in terms of the different levels of consciousness, and our different 'bodies'. ‘What is below is like what is above, and what is above is like what is below’, said [...]
When we are here together, meditating in silence, it is impossible for me immediately to forget about your presence and concentrate on my own work. You are with me; you are in my head and my heart as a unit, as my family, and I speak to you, I explain things to you. Often in fact, when [...]