The container of self and the four lower bodies...

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the book The Least You Should Know About Life.


The lower figure in the chart represents you, the evolving lifestream. The chart shows your lifestream at its highest potential, meaning that you are free of the consciousness of duality and have put on the mind of Christ. Thus, your lower being reflects the perfection of your higher Being. You can be here below all that you are Above.

The Vitruvian man by Leonardo DaVinci symbolizes your lower being in a perfectly balanced state. The figure is surrounded by a circle, which represents the oneness of the spiritual realm. The square represents the material universe, created from the “squaring of the circle,” namely the process whereby Spirit becomes matter.

The square symbolizes the four basic elements, namely fire, air, water and Earth. This represents the four levels of the material realm and your four lower “bodies,” namely your identity body, your mental body, your emotional body and your physical body.



The lower figure on the chart is what might be called your container of self. It contains your four lower bodies. These are interpenetrating energy bodies that co-exist in the same space because they vibrate at different levels of frequencies:

•The identity body, also called the etheric body. The contents of your identity body define your sense of identity. How do you see yourself, how do you see God, how do you see the world and how do you see the interaction between them? Do you see yourself as a spiritual being who is here to take dominion over the Earth or do you see yourself as a material being, a product of the Earth with no power to change it?

•The mental body contains your thoughts. It is here you form a mental image of the specific things you want to do in the material world and how to accomplish them. This mental image will be based upon your sense of identity, which defines parameters for what you think you can or cannot do. Thus, if you identify yourself as a human being, you will limit what you think you can do.

•The emotional body is obviously the seat of your feelings. Emotion means Energy in MOTION. Your thoughts are mental images, but in order to become actions or manifest forms, they must be set in motion, and this happens at the level of the emotional body. However, this body also contains your desires, and they can conflict with your higher goals. Ideally, your emotions should be reflections of your thoughts that are reflections of your sense of identity that again is a reflection of your Divine individuality. Yet it is common that the emotions take on a life of their own and seek to run your life instead of being controlled by your thoughts.

•The conscious mind and physical body. For many people, most of their sense of identity, thoughts and emotions are hidden below the threshold of conscious awareness. Thus, they do not understand the process that leads to a conscious thought, feeling and action. This means they have little power to control their actions, which simply flow from processes that are subconscious. People can only watch as their subconscious minds run their lives.
The key to controlling your conscious mind and your actions is to push back the threshold of conscious awareness so you begin to understand what goes on in the higher bodies and can begin to consciously control it. Your conscious self is perfectly capable of doing this, as it can project itself anywhere it can imagine.

.....from askrealjesus.com