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108 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
Shadow Chakras
Situated above the head there are, in fact, five more centers. These
are shadow representations of the lower five or their etheric counterparts.
In other words they function at a much higher level of the Etheric Body,
which some have considered the thermal area of it. Their functions, like
the lower five, are in fact more fluid and are the ones which tend to be
the first manifestations of things before being sent down to the lower five.
Some call these seam centers, because they have to keep the subtle bodies
polarized so the lower main centers can function correctly.
RVACH
The term "Ruach'" means breath. The Ruach in fact rests not only
on the Nephesch but within it, and rules over it. In the previous section
you have seen how the Nephesch, in both its higher and lower form, is
closely allied with the body, the Higher Nephesch being in fact likened
to a transmission set of sorts. This is still very much the instinctive
process which has to be directed through the mental or thinking process
of the Ruach. lOO It has been allied with the Sephiroth of Chesed to Hod
and some have considered that the influences of those planets attributed
to those Sephiroth are also analogous but this is something of an understatement.
The Ruach is in many ways the sum total of the individual
before he has sent the actions of his thoughts and reason down through
the Nephesch to the Guph.
From the psychological viewpoint, the Ruach is, of course, the collective
components of the Psyche. [ung breaks down the Psyche into sensation,
thinking, feeling, intuition, memory, subjective functions, effects,
and invasions, which are all allied to the Ruach. I have always thought
that the Ruach is in many respects more psychological than Spiritual,
though the spiritual direction it takes must not be ignored. While one
function of the Ruach is to digest the emanations from above that are
woven into some type of karmic destiny, the other part also digests the
information the individual experiences through the senses and thinking
process. In many respects this is a two-way communication system, for its
function is to assimilate the experience of life itself.
100 Vol. i. folio 287b, Appendix L