Man's Seven Principles vs. Universal Principles
Man's Seven Principles vs. Universal Principles
Each rational creature receives only the temporary loan of that which has to return to its source ( DHL.d1.s.241)
cosmic
kāma––which “The seven principles which compose man––ātman, buddhi, manas,
kāma, prāna, linga-śarīra, sthūla-śarīra––are identic with those which Kama
is the intrinsic Cosmic Kama
force or compose our solar cosmos, man‟s seven principles interblending and
interacting in more or less the same fashion as the cosmic principles Returns to-Universal Sakti
energy of the
universe. do. For instance, just as the astral light of our earth is its fluidic astral
(CW12.p.645) double, so in man the li‰ga-śarīra is the astral double of the human Prana rebecomes jiva
Cosmic Jiva body; and just as the various cosmic prānas are the compound
beginnings of vitality of our globe, so is the compounded prāna of the human
constitution the element of vitality in man.”(CW12.p.649) Returns to Fohat
cosmic
enteties, solar Cosmic astral [Link] Astral
and planetary light Returns to Akasa astral
chains light
physical
To illustrate: various prānas in man correspond
with the ātman; for, when traced back to their Returns to nature
ultimate origin, the prānas will be found to be
emanations from the ātmic monad. In similar
Physical Universe – all nature fashion, the linga-śarīra is coupled with the „auric
Reflection of all above envelope‟ enclosing the ātman as its spiritual aura;
and likewise the third aspect or lower manas, the
animal soul, is in the imbodied man the reflection
of his buddhi. We can carry the analogy one step Since man is a compound his lower vestures or veils
farther by pointing out that, just as manas is the are made up of cosmic essences the resultant of
The prototypes or ideas of things
focal center of the egoic human individual, so it which become his principles during manifestation. As
exist first on the plane of Divine
has its correspondence on earth in the sthūla- soon as man dies his aggregation dissociates. Each of
eternal Consciousness and
śarīra, which is the focus of the powers and his mortal components returns to its cosmic source.
thence become reflected and
faculties making the physical man an individual ([Link] Purucker “fountain Source of Occultism”.p.579-583)
reversed in the Astral Light,
separate from others.(CW 12.p.646)
which also reflects on its lower
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individual plane the life of our
Earth, recording it on its
“tablets.” (CW 10.p.361) [Link] Jong