Bodies, Seven
One of the preconditions for space/time (incarnate) existence is some form of body complex.[6] Each body offers a vehicle for learning, movement, and experience in a particular environment. There are seven basic bodies, one of which we inhabit for use in this density. They move from less to more densely-packed with light.
The seven bodies have been given different names and meanings in different systems throughout history. Brief descriptions, mostly in Ra’s words, of the seven bodies when viewed from the human standpoint follow:
Red-Ray Body: The unconstructed material of the body; the elemental body without form; the chemical body. Not, however, the biological system of bone, tissue, organs, muscle, nerves, hormones, electrochemical impulses and so forth that is the human physical body. This basic unformed material body is important to understand for there are healings which may be carried out by the simple understanding of the elements present in the physical vehicle.
Orange-Ray Body: The purely physical body complex formed without self-awareness, the body in the womb before the spirit/mind complex enters. This body may live without the inhabitation of the mind and spirit complexes. However, it seldom does so.
Yellow-Ray Body: The body that is in activation within third-density incarnation; the physical vehicle as we now know it that is integrated with mind and spirit. It is “equal to the physical illusion.” (Sometimes colloquially called our meat suit.)
The following higher bodies—often referred to as subtle bodies—are available to the third-density entity, but there is skill and discipline needed in order to avail the self of the more advanced or lighter vehicles. They are not necessary for third-density work but are useful to the adept.
Ra offers some familiar names for the higher bodies that correlate to some spiritual teachings. It is noteworthy, though, that as this realm of exploration is very subtle and mysterious, different schools of thought may use the same terms to describe different bodies or experiences. Discernment is suggested in drawing correlations to other systems that describe these bodies.
Green-Ray Body: A lighter body packed more densely with life, called by some teachings the astral body. It is the body that will be activated and enjoyed by those in the fourth-density cycle of experience.
Blue-Ray Body: A body of light which may also be called the devachanic body. There are many other names for this body, especially in the Indian Sutras due to much cultural exploration of this topic.
Indigo-Ray Body: The etheric, or gateway, or form-maker body, described both as the “analog for intelligent energy” and “being intelligent energy.” In this body, form is substance.[7] We may see it as being made of light, as it may mold itself as it desires.
This is the first body activated upon what we call death, or the cessation of the yellow-ray body. The entity in between incarnations will remain in this body until the next incarnation commences in a body appropriate for that density of experience. The indigo body also plays a critical role in health and healing, adopting the desired configuration and manifesting it in the yellow-ray body.
Violet-Ray Body: The violet-ray body may perhaps be understood as what some call the Buddha body or that body which is complete. It is extremely close to unity with all that there is. It is also the body activated during the anomalous moment of harvest in order to gauge the harvestability of the entity.
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