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Spleen
Liver
Heart
Corpora-quadrigemina
Pictuitary body
Pineal gland
Linga Sharira
Kâma
Prâna
Kâma-Manas
Manas-Antahkarana
Manas
until it is touched by the vibrating light of Kundalinî, which proceeds from Buddhi,
when it becomes Buddhi-Manas.
The pineal gland corresponds with Divine Thought. The pituitary body is the organ of
the Psychic Plane. Psychic vision is caused by the molecular motion of this body,
which is directly connected with the optic nerve, and thus affects the sight and gives
rise to hallucinations. Its motion may readily cause flashes of light, such as may be
obtained by pressing the eyeballs. Drunkenness and fever produce illusions of sight
and hearing by the action of the pituitary body. This body is sometimes so affected by
drunkenness that it is paralysed. If an influence on the optic nerve is thus produced
and the current thus reversed, the colour will probably be compementary.
Sevens
Q. If the physical body is no part of the real human septenary, is the physical material
world one of the seven planes of the Kosmic septenary
A. It is. The body is not a Principle in Esoteric parlance, because the body and the
Linga are both on the same plane; then the Auric Egg makes the seventh. The body
is an Upâdhi rather than a Principle. The earth and its astral light are as closely
related to each other as the body and its Linga, the earth being the Upâdhi. Our
plane in its lowest division is the earth, in its highest the astral. The terrestrial astral
light should of course not be confounded with the universal Astral Light.
Q. A physical object was spoken of as a septenary on the physical plane, inasmuch
as we could (1) directly contact it; (2) retinally reproduce it; (3) remember it; (4)
dream of it; (5) view it atomically; (6) view it disintegrated; (7) —What is the seventh
These are seven ways in which we view it: the septenary is our way of seeing one
thing. Is it objectively septenary
Ãkâsha Nature's Sounding-Board (Page 549) A. The seventh bridges across from one
plane to another. The last is the idea, the privation of matter, and carries you to the
next plane. The highest of one plane touches the lowest of the next. Seven is a factor
in nature, as in colours and sounds. There are seven degrees in the same piece of
wood, each perceived by one of the seven senses. In wood the smell is the most
material degree, while in other substances it may be the sixth. Substances are
septenary apart from the consciousness of the viewer.
The psychometer, seeing a morsel, say of a table a thousand years hence, would
see the whole; for every atom reflects the whole body to which it belongs, just as with
the Monads of Leibnitz.
After the seven material subdivisions are the seven divisions of the Astral, which is its
second Principle. The disintegrated matter—the highest of the material
subdivisions—is the privation of the idea of it—the fourth.
The number fourteen is the first step between seven and forty-nine. Each septenary
is really a fourteen, because each of the seven has its two aspects. Thus fourteen
signifies the inter-relation of two planes in its turn. The septenary is to be clearly
traced in the lunar months, fevers, gestations, etc. On it is based the week of the
Jews and the septenary Hierarchies of the Lord of Hosts.
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