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Motion and the Mental Sheath

The mental body is composed of only four types of essence, whereas the Astral body and the physical are formed of seven types.  The Devas who compose this body are grouped together as "the cohorts of the fourth order" and have a close connection with that group of cosmic Lives who (through the impress of their influence upon solar matter) are responsible for the fact that our solar system is a system of the fourth order.  This group of Lives is manipulated and controlled, in the macrocosmic sense, from cosmic mental levels via the central Spiritual sun, and through what is called in esoteric parlance "the fourth solar cavity."

Certain influences and forces play upon the mental sheath of any human being, and produce in it that activity which is termed "spiral progressive."  These forces might be briefly considered as comprising the following:

• The energies of the atoms of substance which compose the mental body.  

• The energies of the lunar father who is the coherent life of the mental group body.  These two groups concern the Not-Self, the third aspect of Monadic manifestation.  

• The energies of the solar Angel, or Father, which is the coordinating principle behind manifestation in the three worlds.  

• The energies of the intelligent lives who form the body Egoic.  These lives find their emanating source on other levels than the systemic.  These two groups concern the Egoic principle, the middle principle which links the above and the below, and is the second aspect of Monadic manifestation.  

• The energy emanating from the "Jewel in the Lotus" itself, the focal point of energy in the Upper Triad.  This concerns the Self, the highest aspect of Monadic manifestation.  

The effects produced by the play of these five types of energy upon each other produce (through the medium of the mental unit) that which we term the mental sheath.  This sheath is after all only the aggregate of those atoms within a specific area with which the Thinker has to do, which he holds magnetically within his ring-pass-not, and which serve as the medium for his mental expression, according to his point of evolution.  This same definition will be recognized as true of all atomic sheaths, and one of the things which students of the occult sciences will eventually do is to investigate the nature of the informing lives of the sheaths, the qualities of the energies influencing such lives, and the character and force of the basic underlying principles.  

We found that the effects of such motion might be regarded as four altogether:

1. Separation
2. Momentum
3. Frictional Activity
4. Absorption

Separation:  This separation is brought about through the initial activity of the Ego who produces the first of those forms which he intends to use during the cycle of incarnation, through the bringing together of these energies through self-engendered impulse.  He, for purposes of development, identifies himself with that form, and thus temporarily separates himself off from his own real Self.  Through the veil of mental matter he first knows separation, and undergoes his first experiences of the three worlds.  

Momentum:  The activity of the mental sheath and its gradually increasing rate of vibration is brought about by the inflow of energies of different kinds.  These various factors, as they are brought to bear upon the mental sheath produce an increased activity and speed in the rotary motion of the individual atoms, and also greater speed in the progress of the entire sheath.  This means a more rapid transference of the atoms of low vibration out of the sheath and the substitution of atoms of high quality.  

Some of the energies which produce increased momentum in the mental sheath might be enumerated, and as the students consider them it will again become apparent what a complicated thing human unfoldment really is.  

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