The Seven Principles of Man

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. *Through Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet http://www.alpheus.org/html/source_materials/theosophy/principles.html