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SUBTLE FORMS OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH PRINCIPLE The student will already have fully realised that “an astral body” is […]

MANAS IN ACTIVITY We have already seen that the fifth principle is dual in its aspect during each period of

PRINCIPLE 5, MANAS, THE THINKER, OR MIND We have reached the most complicated part of our study, and some thought

THE QUATERNARY, OR FOUR LOWER PRINCIPLES Diagram of the Quaternary; transitory and mortal; see Secret Doctrine, Volume I, page 262

PRINCIPLE 4, THE DESIRE BODY In building up our man we have now reached the principle sometimes described as the

PRINCIPLE 3, PRÂNA, THE LIFE All universes, all worlds, all men, all brutes, all vegetables, all minerals, all molecules and

PRINCIPLE 2, THE ETHERIC DOUBLE The Linga Sharira, the astral body, the ethereal body, the fluidic body, the double, the

PRINCIPLE 1, THE DENSE PHYSICAL BODY The dense physical body of man is called the first of his seven principles,

Theosophical Manual No. 1 The Seven Principles of Man by Annie Besant Revised and corrected edition 1909 The Theosophical Publishing