This is the basic study lesson in Theosophy:
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* To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science.
* To investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
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2. This knowledge enables us
to . . .
• Understand our own nature
• Know the principles of self-mastery
• Know the difference between personality
and spirituality
• Become familiar with the hidden side of
things
• Understand the phenomena of healing,
psychic phenomena, qigong, etc.
3. Levels of Consciousness
Vehicle
Higher Self
(Spirit; Atma)
Function
Spark of the Divine; True Self within
Spiritual
Seat of spirituality and true intuition;
Consciousness where illumination and enlightenment
(Buddhi)
occurs
Higher Mental
Abstract thinking; formless
Lower Mental
Concrete thinking; with forms
Emotion
Seat of feelings
Physical
Etheric
Dense
The double; vehicle of prana or ch’i
Physical, liquid and gaseous
5. The Etheric Double
Shaped exactly like the
physical body, except
larger by a few inches.
Generally not separable
from the physical body,
but when it does, it
does not go far from
the body.
6. Etheric Double
• Carrier of energy
called ch’I or prana,
used in healing and
acupuncture
• The matrix that
forms the shape of
the physical body
• Link between the
physical body and
the inner bodies
8. Geller was trying to
form the shape of
the “5” which he felt
he was receiving
telepathically.
Kirlian photographs
taken of Geller. At left he
is sending energy to a
key.
Right top picture, his
finger is at rest. Bottom
photo: he is sending
energy toward a watch.
9.
10.
Experiment by J.L Hickman
with Rev. Scudder. Top finger
is a normal finger. Below,
Rev. Scudder sending
energy
Healing
and its
Effects
11. Effects on Aura of Thoughts
and Feelings
Couple instructed to
think unpleasant
thoughts toward
each other
Same couple
thinking
loving
thoughts
Same couple
kissing
www.kirlian.org/ kirlian2.htm
12. Phantom Leaf Phenomenon
Kirlian photograph of
normal leaf
shadowboxent.brinkster.net/ lemurkirlian.html
Kirlian photograph of
the same leaf but
almost completely torn
away, leaving only the
stem. The emanation of
the whole life remains
for some time.
13. Ectoplasm
The etheric
material can at
times be
solidified to be
visible and
tangible and
can produce
various
phenomena
such as the
production of
sounds.
Minnie Harrison
Eva Carriere
18. The Inner Bodies
Astral
body of
savage
The Scientific Intense
anger
Type
Normal
health aura
Causal body of
average person
Causal body
of developed
individual
22. Thought Forms and
Thought Power
Every thought we
make has two
effects:
1. Thought forms –
with shapes and
colors in
accordance with the
thought
2. Thought radiation –
that affect the
surroundings
23. Lower and Higher Mental
Concrete
Abstract
Red triangle
Triangleness
Outer space and
Galaxies
Pure space without
objects
Yellow
Color
Good act
Goodness
Beautiful flower
Beauty
24. Higher
Mental
(Devachan)
Adepts and Initiates
Evolved Souls
Average Souls
First Elemental
Essence
Arupa devas
Lower
Mental
Human beings
Second
Elemental
Essence
Rupa devas
Men; Animals
(asleep and
after death)
Shells
Third
Elemental
Essence;
Thought
forms;
Elementals
Kama-devas;
Sylphs
Lower
elementals
Nature spirits
Emotional
Etheric
Atomic
Subatomic
Super-etheric
Etheric
Ghosts
Dense
Physical
Gaseous
Liquid
Solid
Human;
animals;
plants;
minerals
26. Levels of Consciousness
Vehicle
Higher Self
(Spirit; Atma)
Function
Spark of the Divine; True Self within
Spiritual
Seat of spirituality and true intuition;
Consciousness where illumination and enlightenment
(Buddhi)
occurs
Higher Mental
Abstract thinking; formless
Lower Mental
Concrete thinking; with forms
Emotion
Seat of feelings
Physical
Etheric
Dense
The double; vehicle of prana or ch’i
Physical, liquid and gaseous
29. Spiritual and
Psychical (or Personal)
Intuition
Love
Psychic Desire
-al
faculty
ComImperpassion sonal
Duty
Sympa- Person- Person
thy
al
al
motivation
30. Intuition
• Intuition is to see things
– in their essential nature
– not just understanding things conceptually or from
memory.
• It incorporates conceptual understanding, but
at the same time, transcends it. It is
integrative. It includes, without analysis,
priorities, values or principles.
• It entails awareness of a level of
consciousness subtler than thinking.
• True intuition is identical with spiritual
awareness and the mystical meaning of
“faith.”
31. The Intuitive Person
• Intuitive persons have judgments that are ultimately
sound and in accord with objective reality.
• Hence, because their view or judgment
encompasses a wider and deeper scope, they are
aptly called wise (not merely being intelligent,
cunning or smart).
• “All great men are endowed with intuition. They
know without reasoning or analysis, what they need
to know.” (Alexis Carrel)
• They are some of the most influential people in
history: Plato, Confucius, Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi,
Einstein, etc.
• They are self-actualizing people
32. Exploring Intuition
1. Understand what intuition is – and not confuse it
with ESP, emotions, and whims
2. Be clear about your deepest values – your principles
in life and your most important personal values
3. Learn how to enter into inner silence – practice
meditation and daily awareness
4. Check inner response when a decision has to be
made – learn to recognize the inner seeing vs.
emotional reactions
33. Exercise
• Think of a present life situation that is not trivial – something that
you are concerned about and which is not yet clear yet to you what
you should do. (E.g., to sell or not to sell the house; to reside in
another place; to buy a new piano or not; to go back to school or
not; to enter into a relationship; etc.)
• Enter into inner silence. Drop the thought about the situation entirely
from your mind (if you feel discomfort while thinking about it then
process it first).
• When mind and feelings are calm, indifferent about things, and there
is inward silence, turn your attention to the situation:
–
–
–
–
not deliberate or evaluate it,
just look at it without analysis;
allow the consciousness to “dwell” on the situation,
no attempt to understand or do anything about it, just look
• Stay with this state for five minutes
34. The existence of the Mahatmas, their
power to travel in the inner, or astral
body at will, to preserve full command
of all their intelligence, and to
condense their “phantom” form into
visibility or dissolve it into invisibility at
their own pleasure, are now facts too
well established to permit us to regard
it as an open question. (CW 5:290-1)