Bodies

Heavenly bodies and elemental forces are shown in conflict, which upsets the balance of nature even more.

Floods and rotting bodies make conditions filthy.

He lands by a lake, sees his own body for the first time, and at dawn he sees Zul.

This reverence likely stems from their visual resemblance to the celestial bodies.

A pyramid in the palace of Nineveh featured stages covered in different colors representing celestial bodies, with gold at the top symbolizing the sun and silver representing the moon.

Chaldaean Religion: Complex, mystical, worshiping all celestial bodies.

Different types of matter in a person's astral body responded to celestial influences based on their composition.

All its physical constituents — the sun with his worderful corona, all the planets with their satellites, their oceans, their atmospheres, and the various ethers surrounding them — all these collectively made up His physical body, the expression of Him on the physical plane.

In the same way the collective astral worlds (not only the astral spheres belonging to these physical planets, but also the purely astral planets of all the chains of the system — such, for example, as planets B and F of our own Chain) made up His astral body, and the collective worlds of the mental plane were His mental body — the vehicle through which He manifested Himself upon that particular plane.

Now let it be supposed that in these ' bodies' of His at their various levels there are certain different classes or types of matter fairly equally distributed over the whole system.

It has often been explained that in the astral body of a man matter belonging to each of the sub-planes is to be found, and that the proportion between the denser and the finer kinds shows how far that body is capable of responding to coarser or more refined desires, and so is to some extent an indication of the degree to which he has evolved himself.

Similarly in every astral body there is matter of each of these types or cross-divisions, and in this case the proportion between them shows the disposition of the man — whether he is excitable or serene, sanguine or phlegmatic, patient or irritable, and so on.

Now the Chaldaean theory was that each of these types of matter in the astral body of the LOGOS, and in particular the mass of elemental essence functioning through each type, is to some extent a separate vehicle — almost a separate entity — having its own special affinities, and capable of vibrating under influences which might probably evoke no response from the other types.

or action of, any one of these great centres must to some degree affect all beings in the system, and the extent to which any particular person is so affected depends upon the proportion of the type of matter influenced which he happens to have in his astral body.

That is to say, we find different types of men as well as of matter, and by reason of their constitution, by the very composition of their astral bodies, some of them are more susceptible to one influence, some to another.

Since the astral and mental bodies of man are practically

It is all but established now that the surface which we see in the case of Jupiter or Saturn is that of a deep, dense cloud-envelope, and not the body of the planet at all ; and if that be so, the Chaldaean representation of these globes is as accurate as the rest of their scheme.

Luminous bodies were used to represent the planets, and in the earlior days of this religion, precisely as in the earlier days of the Mysteries, these bodies were real materialisations called into existence by the Adept Teachers, and moving freely in the air; but in both cases in later days, when less evolved men had to take the place of these exalted Beings, it was found difficult or impossible to make the materialisations work properly, and so their place was filled by ingenious mechanical contrivances — a kind of orrery on a gigantic scale.

The only light admitted came through thick plates of a crystallike substance of various colours, which were let into the floor of the temple, but arrangements were made to reflect the sun's rays through this medium when necessary, and the priest who was practising his meditation allowed this reflected light to fall upon the various centres in his body — sometimes upon that between the eyes, sometimes upon the base of the spine, and so on.

We know how, in the case of a man, the elemental essence which enters into the composition of his astral body becomes to all intents and purposes a separate entity, which has sometimes been called the desire-elemental; how its many different types and classes combine into a temporary unity, capable of definite action in its own defence, as for example against the disintegrating process which sets in after death.

The priests held that the physical planets which we can see serve as pointers to indicate the position or condition of the great centres in the body of the LOGOS Himself, and also that through each of these great centres poured out one of the ten types of essence out of which, according to them, everything was built.

Another made the earth repel heavy bodies, so huge stones could be lifted with ease.