Body, physical

If the target object is a black body and if the pyrometer has a detector that measures the specific wavelength signal from the object, the temperature of the object can be exactly estimated from Eq. (8-92). While it is possible to coustrucl a physical body that closely approxi-... 

In an obituaiy talk given at the Physical Society of Berlin in 1889, Hermann Helmholtz stressed that Clausius s strict formulation of the mechanical heat theory is one of the most surprising and interesting achievements of the old and new physics, because of the absolute generality independent of the nature of the physical body and since it establishes new, unforeseen relations between different branches of physics. 

The engineer visualizes a soil mass as an ideal, real, physical body incapable of resisting tensile stresses. 

In the Anatomiae Amphitheatrum (1623), however, Fludd also provided additional images of the actual physical body. There is a diagram... 

The primary concern of medieval Christian eschatology concerned the issue of individual subjectivity and its constituent components, body and soul. Christian eschatology, in a similar fashion to its preceding Iranian and Judaic sources, insisted that human identity was irrevocably embedded within its physical body. Hence, if humanity was to resurrect in its entirety, then it had to be accompanied by its original material form. A purely spiritual resurrection on the pagan Greek model would not fulhl Christ s promise that by his own death and resurrection he had saved the faithful from eternal death. 

In the early Christian era the earliest resurrection narrative had been created by Paul in his account of the seed which must die in the earth so that a new plant could arise. His view was never popular since it implied that the resurrected entity was different from that which had died. This theory was abandoned in favour of the notion of physical reconstitution. The issue was bitterly disputed throughout the Middle Ages, emerging as a distinctive theological doctrine in the mid-sixteenth century in Schwenckfeld s Pauline-based analysis of Christ s two physical bodies, that into which he had incarnated and that of the risen body in which he had ascended into heaven. The alchemists, like Schwenckfeld, continued to use Paul s... 

When an Alchemist Speaks of Mercury, Sulphur and Salt, He Speaks of His Spiritual, Astral and Physical Bodies, Not of the Elements. Alchemy Unveiled Describes the Tribulations That a Human Being Has to Pass Through in Order to Purify These Three Bodies. However, to Achieve the Level of an Alchemist Requires Daily Study and Strict Daily Mental, Astral and Physical Exercises for Many Lifetimes. Alchemy Unveiled Will Lead the Reader on a Journey of a Complete Purification of the Body, Soul and Spirit, and for the First Time the Mystery of the Philosopher s Stone Is Openly Explained... 

Ching energy is produced naturally by your physical body. This natural product is sexual energy. Ching is creation power... 

The esoteric books of Judaism speak of the Lamed-Vav, the thirty-six Just Ones on whose shoulders the world rests, and of the Seven Pillars of wisdom and righteousness, seven saints whose successive lives extend over the entire history of humanity. Tradition lists these seven as Adam, Methuselah, Shem, Jacob, Serah (the daughter of Asher), Ahijah of Shiloh (who was the Maggid, or Inner Teacher, of the Ba al Shem Tov), and the prophet Elijah himself. In fact, all three Religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, teach the resurrection of the dead, when all humanity, at the end of days, will rise in incorruptible physical bodies and reap the everlasting harvest of what they have sown. 

The physical body cannot penetrate the other bodies, as yet, but is itself penetrated by the other bodies. Thus it becomes the natural stage for all spiritual actions and decisions and the starting point for all spiritual unfoldment. Qabalistically, it is in Malkuth that the divine presence—Shekinah—is revealed for the healing of nations. This is the esoteric meaning of the coming of the Messiah, when That which lies dormant in every heart becomes fully manifested. 

Yetzirah. It is this power of mind that sustains embodiment. It is through the constructive and eliminative functions of the corporeal intelligence that the physical body is gradually transformed into the deathless body of a Sage. 

Breathing is a vehicle of spiritual experience, the link between the physical body and the mind. It is the first step in the transformation of the body from a more or less passive and unconscious functioning physical organ into a vehicle for or tool of a perfectly developed and enlightened mind, as demonstrated by the perfection and radiance of the Buddha s body. 

Do not be alarmed when you begin to feel physical sensations like goosebumps or tingling. This is merely the physical body responding to the inflow of energy. You will find that this exercise has the effect of invigorating you with the vital current of life. 

It is a well-established fact that when advanced yogis and adepts die their vacated physical bodies show no sign of decomposition or decay... 

Now, give thanks to that from which all good things come. Then rise from your siege and return to your physical body. By a gentle but firm intention, diminish the table to a miniature again, until it is a photon—a point of light. Reabsorb this into your heart center. 

The eidolon of the castle receives power. It is also thronged by all the presences and intelligences, including the masters and inner teachers. Remember, however, that, just as in Shakespeare s The Tempest, all the wonderful sights and scenes of the island were projections of the mage, Prospero, and of his spirit-servants, so too this castle is called forth by your creative activity and is a similar projection of yourself and your elemental spirit-servants who indwell the very cells of your physical body. 

You have now constructed the citadel in the finer etheric, astral, and mental substances drawn out from your own aura, and so it has a close psychic link with you. As each chamber inside this Tower of the Art, corresponds to one of the subjective Sephirothic centers, you have thereby constructed a remote-control device. The tower is a means by which you can concentrate upon and direct energy to the chakras, without any concentration upon the physical centers at all. By working in the appropriate chamber in the castle, you can produce an effect upon the inner levels. From there, you work naturally through into physical, waking consciousness. So this etheric structure prevents damage to the physical body, but at the same time allows the spiritual powers of the etheric centers to unfold quite naturally. Most people incarnate today have a... 

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