Cosmic Planes & Human Principles -
From 'Exploring the Great Beyond'
Publication by Geoffrey Farthing
| NO. | COSMIC PLANES Common Names |
--- HUMAN PRINCIPLES --- | |||||||
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| SANSKRIT NAME | ENGLISH NAME | DESCRIPTION | |||||||
| 7 | AKASHA Spirit-Substance |
ATMA | The Monad |
SPIRIT | Ultimate Dynamism Life or Spirit (Astract) eat of Consciousness |
Human Soul | The Higher or Oneself Our Father in Heaven |
Individuality, Reincarnating Ego |
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| 6 | ALAYA Universal Soul |
BUDDHI | VEHICLE OF SPIRIT | Plus Spirit = Life Effective. The Monad. Inherent in everything. Prime Duality. |
Spiritual Ego or higher Ego |
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| 5 | MAHAT Universal Mind |
HIGHER =====MANAS===== LOWER |
HIGHER MIND | Orientates towards (7) and (6) Astract though, Intuition, Unity. |
Inner or Higher Ego | ||||
| Antahkarana | |||||||||
| LOWER MIND | Orientates towards (1) to (4) Personal Mind, Ordinary Thougths |
Animal Soul/ Psyche |
Kama-rupa (at Death) | Mayavi-Rupa | Personality /personal ego |
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| 4 | FOHAT Universal Energy |
KAMA | EMOTIONS Desire, Passion |
Driving Energy. Will at lower octave. The Motivator. Has higher and lower octaves. | |||||
| 3 | JIVA Life Force in Everything |
PRANA | LIFE FORCE (Vitality) |
Vitality, without which a body is dead. | Lower Triad * |
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| 2 | ASTRAL Formative Principle Within-Without |
LINGA SARIRA | VITAL BODY (Astral Body) |
Non-physical material form body (Morphic). Collector and reservoir of Life Force (Prana), vital body. | |||||
| 1 | PRAKRITI Densest Substance |
STHULA SARIRA | PHYSICAL BODY | Means of perception and action at physical level. Vehicle for expression of all human faculties. | |||||
*abandoned and disintegrated at Death