Subtle Body
To be distinguished from the lower astral. The Subtle Body is made up of a combination of Kama, Higher Manas, and Buddhi, and in the spiritually developed man constitutes his Spiritual Soul. (LHR I, p 474)
It is incorrect to call the subtle body formless, as its shapelessness is relative. The Teaching speaks of incorporeality but not of shapelessness. Moreover, there are statements in esoteric Teachings that those primordial subtle immaterial bodies had beautiful, perfect form. It is impossible to declare that they had nothing in common with our present physical forms. We should bear in mind that the subtle body is the prototype of the physical body. Of course, the primitive physical high-animal type was, in its appearance, very far from the subtle body or the spiritual essence which was clothed in it. (LHR I, p 194)
In the Teaching of Life it is said: “People have their subtle bodies almost formed; but the mental body is created only by a select few.” (LHR I, p 375)
By “densification of the astral”, one should understand the densification of the subtle body almost up to the state of the physical. (LHR I, p 498)
Toward the end of the sixth and the beginning of the seventh race, there will occur the materialization of the astral bodies. (LHR I, p 195)
It is especially difficult to perceive the instantaneousness of action of the subtle body. (BR, 291)
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