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Prana, therefore, which is active radiatory heat, varies in vibration and quality according to the receiving Entity.  Man passes the prana through his Etheric vehicle, colors it with his own peculiar quality, and so transmits it to the lesser lives that make up his little system Thus, the great interaction goes on, and all parts blend, merge and are interdependent; and all parts receive, color, qualify and transmit.  An endless circulation goes on that has neither a conceivable beginning nor possible end from the point of view of finite man, for its source and end are hid in the unknown cosmic fount.  

We might here note a fact of interest, though of a mystery insoluble as yet to most of us, and that is, that these destructions by fire are part of the tests by fire of an initiation of that one of the Heavenly Men Whose karma is bound up with our earth.  Each destruction of a portion of the web results in a greater facility of exit, and is in reality (when seen from the higher planes) a step forward and an expansion.  A repetition of this takes place likewise in the system at the stated cycle.

DISORDERS OF THE ETHERIC BODY

We will now study the Etheric body, and its ills and also its after death condition.  This matter can be only briefly touched upon.  All that may now be indicated is a general idea of the fundamental ailments to which the Etheric may be subject, and the trend which applied medicine may later take when occult laws are better understood.  One fact must here be brought out - a fact but little comprehended or even apprehended.  This is the significant fact that the ills of the Etheric vehicle, in the case of the microcosm, will be found likewise in the Macrocosm.  Herein lies the knowledge that oft-times explains the apparent miseries of nature.  Some of the great world evils have their source in Etheric ills, extending the idea of the Etheric to planetary conditions and even to solar.  As we touch upon the causes of Etheric distress in man, their planetary and solar correspondences and reactions may perhaps be realized.  

We will need to bear carefully in mind when studying this matter, that all the diseases of the Etheric body will appertain to its threefold purpose and be either:

• The ills of the microcosmic Etheric body can also be found to originate from macrocosmic sources.
• All diseases of the Etheric body can be categorized as follows:

• Functional – Concerning the intake of prana
• Organic – Concerned with the distribution of prana
• Static – Acting as a separator between the physical and Astral planes.

a) Microcosmic Functional Disorders

These arise from either an inability or overability to tap into pranic currents, whether through poor living conditions or larger collective evolutionary choices.

b) Microcosmic Organic Disorders

1. Arise due to congestion or over-exposure of prana.

2. Etheric congestion leads to the thickening of the Etheric web, which may limit contact with the higher Self.  

3. Etheric over-exposure may result in the destruction of Etheric and physical brain tissue may lead to insanity of many kinds, for the burned-out Etheric web may permit the inflow of extraneous Astral currents.  

c) Microcosmic Static Disorders

This concerns the Etheric body in its connection with the work of providing a ring-pass-not between the physical and the Astral bodies.  

1. The ring-pass-not is that confining barrier which acts as a separator between a system and that which is extra-systemic.

2. The Etheric web does not constrain the Heavenly Men whose bodies form the seven sacred planets.  Their consciousness is free within the solar ring-pass-not.  

3. All that can be pondered upon can be viewed with the following perspectives: Psychological, Astronomical, Physical, Metaphysical, Anthropological, Astrological, Geometrical, Mystical, Symbolical and Numerical.  (Each of these Keys must be turned 7 times. )

4. The ring-pass-not serves as a barrier to those of lesser attainment but not to those who have progressed, according to two factors: a) Karma and b) the dominance of the Spiritual indwelling entity over its vehicle.

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