Theos-Talk Archives (August 2009 Message tt00194)

I have been asked by a member on another forum to explain the meaning of vibrations and how they impact on us. I am copying this to tt in order to be scrutinized and corrected if necessary.

At this point it is too difficult to go into the ideas behind prana to a novice and how it infuses with life the various bodies.

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According to HPB, man has seven principles and seven accompanying bodies which exist in their own seven planes of existence (or dimensions of space) These seven principles are
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Divided into Two states â The Higher Self composed of the attributes of Higher Mind, Intuitional Mind (Wisdom) and Divine Love (altruistic compassion for all) â it is this Higher Self which gathers experience from its Lower Self and which reincarnates. 
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The ÂLowerÂSelf (commonly referred to as our ego or personality Âhas four principles â 
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a)ÂÂÂÂ Physical solid body made up of atoms â 
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b)ÂÂÂÂ An etheric double â a counterpart ethereal sheath of the solid body (and which explains phantom limbs and graveyard ghosts-it remains with the solid body until the solid body decays) 
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c)ÂÂÂÂ An Astral sheath which carries our desires and emotions 
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d)ÂÂÂÂ And a Lower Mental sheath which carries our ideas,thoughts, either rationally infused or emotion-rationally infused.
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This division in our higher and lower principles and as we have no direct knowledge of our higher self, the lower self imagines itself to be the real and only self.
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"In man, the normal brain intelligence is produced by the union of he Astral sheath and the Lower Mental sheath and is described as "the rational but earthly or physical intellect of man, encased in and bound by matter, and therefore subject to the influence of the latter, this is the lower selfÂwhich, acting on this plane of illusion, imagines itself to be the real Self or Ego, and thus falls into what Buddhist philosophy terms the "heresy of separateness"
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Impacts from the outer world striking on the physical body, are conveyed as vibrations, the astral body translate the vibration into feeling. Astral matter, being much finer than physical matter interpenetrates it. Every physical atom therefore, floats in a sea of astral and mental matter, which surrounds it and fills ever interstice in physical matter. It is of course, well known that even in the hardest substance no two atoms ever touch one another, the space between two adjacent atoms being in fact enormously larger that the atoms themselves. Thus a living being in the astral world might be occupying the same space as a being living in the physical world; yet each would be entirely unconscious of the other, and would in no way impede the free movement of the other.
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The principle of interpenetration makes it clear that the different realms of nature are not separated in space, but exist about us here and now, so that to perceive and investigate them no movement in space is necessary, but only an opening within ourselves of the senses by means of which they can be perceived.
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The astral world, or plane, is thus a condition of nature, rather than a locality.
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It should be noted that ultimate physical atoms are of two kinds, male and female; in the male, force pours in from the astral world, passes through the atom and out into the physical world; in the female, force passes in from the physical world, through the atom, and out into the astral world, thus vanishing from the physical world."Â The Astral Body, A.E.Powell, p.4/5
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The Astral and Mental plane are composed of matter that is finer in nature and spins at a higher vibrational rate. Gross solid matter is more course in nature and spins at a lower vibrational rate, hence our ability to detect or map it.
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So if we imagine our bodies, the physical atom vibrates at a certain rate, our astral atom vibrates at a different spin, and the mental yet again vibrates at a different spin. But all sheaths are interpenetrating and connected at the core of their beingness. Because of the different spin the form becomes invisible to the physical senses.
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>From a dimensionless state the godhead enfolds itself into (10) planes of existence as it involutes, ranging from fine to gross matter Âall spinning at different vibrational rates. ÂÂVibrations on the higher planes spin at a higher velocity than vibrations on the grosser planes, and as all are interpenetrating (co-ordinate but not consubtantial) at an alpha omega zero point if we are able to raise our vibrational spin would be able to have access to the astral and mental realms and even higher consciousness. This interpenetrating may explain why we are able to detect the ghost particle which jumps in and out of existence.


If this is the case then all planes of existence vibrate at different rates, if we can attune ourselves to the vibration on a particular plane then we will be able to access it. Hazrat Inayat Khan


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