TERM GIVEN BY THE
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
TERM GIVEN BY THE
ASCENDED MASTERS*
1. Rupa,
Physical body
Physical body
2. Prana,
Life, or vital principle
Life, or vital principle
Spirit, or essence of a person
3. Linga sharira,
Astral body, etheric double
Etheric double (astral shell), Ka.
A sheath that serves as the outer skin of the etheric, mental, astral and physical bodies.
4. Kama Rupa
Seat of animal desires and passions. This is the center of the animal man, where lies the line of demarcation which separates the mortal man from the immortal entity.
Lower Etheric Body
Lower mental body
Lower desire body (lower astral body)
Electronic belt
The four lower halves of the four lower bodies are the Kama Rupa. This is the place of the subconscious and unconscious records in the electronic belt.
Line of Demarcation
5. Manas
Mind, intelligence;
Higher human mind, whose light, or radiation, links the monad for the lifetime to the mortal man.
Holy Christ Self
Plus the higher etheric body, higher mental body and higher desire body.
6. Buddhi
The Spiritual Soul
Atma-Buddhic Monad
The Causal Body
The Body of First Cause, a replica of the causal body of the Great Central Sun
The I AM THAT I AM
Centered in the Causal Body is the Atma-Buddhic Monad.
7. Atma
8.
The soul resides in the seat-of-the-soul chakra during life.
The seed atom resides in the thymus with the spirit.
The Kundalini, or sacred fire, resides in the Base-of-the-spine chakra.
The threefold flame resides in the antechamber of the heart chakra, the Eighth Ray chakra.
