The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-11
HE HAS SEVEN.
MANS PRINCIPLES NUMBER THAT
MANY, SAYS BEsANT.
Three Are immortal, While -Four
Are OF the Enrth-Yesterday's
Meeting of the Ladies' Club
study in Breathing.


The Theosophical society yesterday
listened to paper on the Seven Erin
cfples of Man" Anna Besaut. the well
known English author, wrote the essay.
1t embraced many interesting ideas,
which are worthy of consideration,
Man, according to the Philosophical
teaching, is a seven fold being. In fact,
he is fitted by his nature when that
nature is fully developed to exist con-
sciously in seven different conditions
For convenience these seven principles
have been put into two groups: one
containing the three higher principles,
and therefore called the Triad; the
other containing the four lower and
therefore called the Quarternary. The
Triad is the deathless part of man S
nature; the Quarternary is the mortal
part, and is called the Sthula Sharira.
The physical body is the first of the
seven principles. Even science agrees
with Theosophy in believing that the
human organism consists of innunrer-
able lives which build up the cells.
is both death giving and life giving.
The death of the physical body oc-
ours when the withdrawal of the con-
trolling life energy leaves the microbes
to go their own way; and the many
lives, no longer co-ordinated, scatter
from each other and dispense the par
ticles of the cells of the being of dust.
Then what we all call decay sets in.
Death is but an aspect of life, end
the destruction of one material form
is but a prelude to the building up of
another.
Principle two, the astral body, is
formed of matter which is rarer than
that perceptible to our five senses.
This matter is called astral matter as
resembling that which fits space. 1t is
characteristic of the astral plane,
which is the one Immediately succeed
ing the material plane. There is
close union between the Lingua Sha-
rira and the physical body. An injury
to che former appears as lesion on
the latter. and is known under the
name of repercussion. The phenomena
of the seances are performed by the
astral bodies. Cremation is preferable
to burial because it disposes sooner of
the physical envelope of man and thus
sooner ready for the building up of
new forms.
Principal three, Prana, the Life, IN
cludes all molecules and atoms, min
eral, vegetable and ANIMAL also man.
This great ocean of life is called JiH-a.
Each organism appropriates to itself
some of the universal life, but all to-
gether make up the living, pulsati,lg
world.
Principle four, Kama, the desires.
Under desires are classed appetites,
passions, emotions and instincts. Kama
includes all animal needs, hunger and
thirst love, hatred, envy or any form
of feeling. Tt is Kama that binds us
fast to life on the material plane.
Kama has no form or body during
life but after death it takes form as
an astral body and is then known as
kama-pupa. Pupa is Sanscrit name
for body
Principle 5.-Manas the Thinker, or
Mind-The word manas is also from
the Sanskrit, meaning to think. 1t is
manas, or the thinker, which passes
through every stage of experience
and finally becomes a spiritual entity,
imprisoned in the case of flesh and
bone The lower man, or manas,
gives the individualizing touch which
we recognize as personality. 1t is the
lower manas which forgets the serere
glory of it's birthplace. 1t yields to
the senses or the animal nature and
is the power which trys to drag down
the higher self. When the real man,
or ego, manifests itself to the world,
then is he raised above the normal
level of human power When there
is perfect harmony the lower nature
is attuned to the higher and the adept
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in the further evolution of the race
of man.
Principles and 7.-Atma Budhi. the
Spirit.-This is the God above more
than within US Happy the man who
succeeds in saturating his inner ego
with it. The spiritual soul, or Bud
dhi, is in close union with the mind.
Buddhi is the reincarnating ego; 50
then Alma or Buddhi must be the
breath which needs a body for its
manifestation. Alma Buddhi, the uni
versal principle, needs individualizing
before it can gain experience so the
mind principle is united to it and the
human principle is united to it and
the human trinity is complete. Alma
Buddhi is often spoken Of as the
father in heaven. The lower manas
gather experience to carry it back to
its source; the higher manas accu-
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of reincarnation. The spirit is self
conscious on all planes and the OBJ
ject of the manifested universe is at
tanned.
The Lotus circle is studying breath.
which will lead one to know and I'M
derstand self. Change in breathing
accounts for change in mood. 1t has
been discovered that we breathe for
twenty-five minutes through one nos
tril and for two minutes through
both and then again through the
other for twenty-five minutes, and
thus does the process continue. By
knowing how to breathe properly
self can be controlled in the right
way.
Mr. Rambo will give talk to the
members of the society this evening
at pm. on subjects that will only
be of interest to those who are inves-