The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

Author:Max Heindel [Heindel, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780464536833
Google: 8swDzAEACAAJ
Published: 2009-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter V. Life and Death

Invisible Helpers and Mediums.

There are two classes of people in the world. In one class the vital and dense bodies are so firmly cemented that the ethers cannot be extracted under any circumstances but remain with the dense body at all times and under all conditions from birth to death. Those people are insensible to any supersensuous

sights or sounds. They are therefore usually exceedingly sceptic, and believe nothing exists but what they can see.

There is another class of people in whom the connection between the dense and

the vital bodies is more or less loose, so that the ether of their vital bodies vibrates at a higher rate than in the first class mentioned. These people are therefore more or less sensitive to the spiritual world.

This class of sensitives may again be divided. Some are weak characters, dominated [pg 137] by the will of others in a negative manner, as mediums, who are the prey of disembodied spirits desirous of obtaining a physical body when

they have lost their own by death.

The other class of sensitives are strong positive characters, who act only from within, according to their own will. They may develop into trained clairvoyants,

and be their own masters instead of slaves of a disembodied spirit. In some sensitives of both classes it is possible to extract part of the ether which forms the vital body. When a disembodied spirit obtains a subject of that nature, it develops the sensitive as a materializing medium. The man who is capable of extracting his own vital body by an act of will, becomes a citizen of two worlds,

independent and free. Such are usually known as Invisible Helpers. There are certain other abnormal conditions where the vital body and the dense body are separated totally or in part, for instance if we place our limb in an uncomfortable

position so that circulation of the blood ceases. Then we may see the etheric limb hanging down below the visible limb as a stocking. When we restore circulation and the etheric limb seeks to enter into place, an intense prickly sensation is felt, due to the [pg 138] fact that the little streams of force, which radiate all through the ether, seek to permeate the molecules of the limb and stir

them into renewed vibration. When a person is drowning, the vital body also separates from the dense vehicle and the intense prickly pain incident to resuscitation is also due to the cause mentioned.

While we are awake and going about our work in the Physical World, the desire

body and mind both permeate the dense and the vital bodies, and there is a constant war between the desire nature and the vital body. The vital body is continually engaged in building up the human organism, while the impulses of the desire body tend to tire and to break down tissue. Gradually, in the course of

the day, the vital body loses ground before the onslaughts of the desire body, poisons of decay slowly accumulate and the flow of vital fluid becomes more and more sluggish, until at length it is incapable of moving the muscles. The body then feels heavy and drowsy. At last the vital body collapses, as it were, the little streams of force which permeate each atom seem to shrivel up, and the Ego

is forced to abandon its body to the restorative powers of sleep.

[pg 139]

When a building has become dilapidated and is to be restored and put in thorough repair, the tenants must move out to let the workmen have a free field.

So also when the building of a spirit has become unfit for further use, it must withdraw therefrom. As the desire body caused the damage, it is a logical conclusion that that also must be removed. Every night when our body has become tired, the higher vehicles are withdrawn, only the dense and vital bodies

are left upon the bed.

Then the process of restoration commences and lasts for a longer or a shorter time according to circumstances.

At times however, the grip of the desire body upon our denser vehicles is so strong that it refuses to let go. When it has become so interested in the proceedings of the day, it continues to ruminate over them after the collapse of

the physical body, and is perhaps only half extracted from that vehicle. Then it

may transmit sights and sounds of the desire world to the brain. But as the connections are necessarily askew under such conditions, the most confused

dreams result. Furthermore, as the desire body compels motion, the body is very apt to toss about when [pg 140] the desire body is not fully extracted, hence the

restless sleep which usually accompanies dreams of a confused nature.

There are times of course when dreams are prophetic and come true, but such dreams result only after complete

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