The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-07-03

Theosophy considers a as a septe-
nary beng and the least in Importance
of his so called principles is the
physical body composed OF an lnfitessi-
NAL number OF lives making up the cells
that form this illuslonary instrument OF
the ego in It's evolution and when worn
out or no Longer useful is cast aside like
any other useless tool. The idea ls as
expressed in Daniel Wills: II Daniel,
was grieved in my spirit in the midst of
my body and in the following dialogue
from an old Indian manuscript:
"You are not this body which ls the
object of your perceptions; which is ma
terial, impermanent, unclean and full Of
FAULTS"
Pupil-ssHow?"
"You had not this body before it's
creation; therefore you are not this
body. You will not have this body af-
ter Its obstruction; hence you ARE not
this body. From the fact that you
perceive this body to be yours you are
this body. You are the subject and the
body the object"
Pupil-"The body is subject to
growth"
"Do you mean to say that the growth
of a body implies its consciousness n
consequence OF its increase in size. You
who are all consciousness are not this
body which IS MATERIAL
This septinary division is not arb1-
tary but IN correspondence with tue
macrocosin OF which MAI is the micro
cosm: Seven colors of the spectrum;
seven musical notes, seven planets,
seven stateb OF CONSCIOUSNESS, etc. The
elements that compose the body OF man
are common to all other physical bodies
The atoms OF the bodies OF the noun
tain and the mole hill, the elephant and
the ant, the flower and the tree are
alike. In the ArenaforJune 1T is stated:
"In his New Astronomy Prof, Langly
calls attention to the shelf in South
Kinsmgton museum which contains in
various jars and Walls on exhibition of
the materials OF which the human body
is composed. They suggest not merely
the complexity Of our constitutions but
the identify OF our elements with those
we have found by the sp%ectroscope; not
alone in the sun, but ever IN the distant
stars and the nebulaa. We have
literally within our own bodies samples
OF the most important elements of
which the great universe is composed;
and you and | are not only like each
other and brothers in humanity, but
children of the sun and stars in a more
literal sense, Ehaying bodies actually
made in large part OF the same things
that make Sirius and Aldebran."
70 most OF us our bodies are the most
important. All thought is conferred on
the body-its care and Advancement and
we fail to realize that it is not the self;
that it liz only d form whose atoms
when no longer o trolled by the life
energie will scatter and 60 into other
forms.
All forms including the earth as a
whole, have II life history, analogous to
the human. The latest geography by
Prof. DAVIS or Harvard University dis
cards old methods of treatment and
gives a rational view OF the subject and
In it we see that land forms 60 through
a life history as well as plants and ami
mails and that the stage in which we
find a mountain or shore line, or river
today is simply one stage in the
long process Of development and degrc-
datlon. Instead of the old fixed condi-
ton in which we used to believe all forms
were we now see them undergoing the
changes Of youth, maturity and old age.
Ihe student can also see correspondence
between social and other disturbances
and cataclysms, earthquakes, ETC.,
showing law and harmony even in read
jnstment. Not only man but nature
has her ervn tire mbllngs, her para
lvtlc and iafamatory Affections; her
rheumatic contortions, her periods OF
chills and fever; her swellings and erup-
tiOns and shakes.
The bodvathen Is only the external ex.
preston OF the soul and therefore an in
dex OF character. though irresponsible Of
itself. An understanding Of this lowest
principal is necessary to the study Of
the real man. An old fable relates .
bet between the and the wind as to
which would succeed in getting 4