Subtle body

Shen is the manifestation power of existence. When Shen is distilled things manifest. When Shen is distilled within the subtle body transcendent evolution can be attained. The human being distills shen naturally. 

The descending sunbeam is received by the veiled chalice, simultaneously transmitted by it into your heart chakra, and radiated throughout your subtle body. 

In both alchemy and Vajrayana, the exteriorized subtle body is imaged in the form of an edifice, a building, so that practitioners can make the delicate adjustments to the chakras, represented by the rooms or chambers in the edifice, that are necessary to initiate physical transformation. 

A yogi or yogini of the Tibetan tradition visualizes his or her subtle body as a chorten. This visualization is actually a co-creation, since the universe is ultimately a mental creation. Rising from storey to storey (each storey being a more refined level), practioners build within each a mandala of tantric deities—an energy web of the dynamics of enlightenment—to activate the chakras and penetrate the veil of appearances to perceive Reality. 

Only after the Paths have been walked do practitioners come to those secret paths of the Tree that have, until now, been veiled in secrecy. These are the Paths of Concealed Glory, sometimes called the Invisible Paths. They are so called because, until practitioners have grasped the First Matter, they are difficult to perceive. These so-called Secret Paths of the Tree are the multitudinous nadis or etheric channels that permeate the subtle bodies anatomy, described in yoga. The same concept is found in the meridians of acupuncture. Macrocosmically, they are the ley lines that unite centers of energy upon our planet and the beams of energy that join each star to every other star in existence. The secret paths are the threads, of the Web of Being. 

As we shall see later, Geoffroy s definition of fire is similar to Boerhaave s. Geoffroy states that it is a simple and most subtle body in a continual swift motion filling and easily permeating the pores of all other bodies. The force of this fire is in proportion to the quantity of the substance in which it is found, which means that the fire is most active in the sun. The extreme subtlety and activity of the principle make it impossible for the chemist to produce fire in its purest form so that it always remains united with water and earth and in salts and sulphurs. The action of fire determines the character of water and earth, and therefore the nature of aU bodies. 

He enabled me to perceive the subtle body, and gain the darshan of the Eight States. 

The competition for food is arguably the predominant cause of strife on this planet. Such a system mandates the production of psychic energy in the form of stress, pain, fear and aggression. If the physical body can only survive by eating physical food, the subtle bodies conceivably also require nourishment consisting of the same stuff they are made of, i.e., thoughts, emotions, drives, etc. This is presumably the "food" that we produce for the Archons. What may be a belief in the Christian Trinity or Islamic Jihad to humans, may be the equivalent of a T-bone steak to entities of the imaginal realm who depend upon that belief for their... 

Yet this subtle body is dramatically lost as soon as Adam desires to follow his own will rather than God s. According to Boehme, the images... 

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