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I have earlier pointed out that the Astral body is the prime motivating factor in the lives of the majority.

This is caused by the fact that:

It is the body in which the bulk of human beings are today centering their consciousness.

It is the most developed of the bodies at this time, and therefore receives the bulk of the life energy as it comes down the life stream, from the Soul, and likewise receives the energy of the stream of consciousness.

It is oriented, if I may so express it, outwards or towards the plane of physical experience. That orientation shifts at times and, temporarily in the case of the aspirant, turns inwards. Just as the centers in man, the "lotuses of life," are depicted as turned downwards and with the stalk upwards in the undeveloped man, but are turned upwards in the case of the developed, so there are conditions in the Astral body analogous to this. In the case of the highly evolved man, of the initiate or the Master, the Astral body is steadily oriented towards the Soul. In the mystic, the aspirant and the disciple, the process of thus definitely changing the direction of the forces is going on and producing, therefore, a temporary chaos.

The Astral body of man, being the latest to develop (the physical and the Etheric being the first two in order of time) is still the most alive and potent. It reached its acme of development in late Atlantean days and its potency is still great, constituting the mass potency, the mass emphasis, and the mass polarisation. This is also augmented by energies coming from the animal kingdom, which is entirely Astral in its point of attainment.

I would like to point out here that, as you well know, there are physical correspondences to the seven centers of forces located in the Etheric body, and fed from the Astral body. These we call the endocrine glands. These glands are effects of or testifying evidence to, the centers, and are in their turn initiating causes of lesser effects in the physical body. It will be of value if we here tabulate some of the things we know, and aid comprehension.

THE RAYS AND THE HUMAN BODY

	Center	Gland	Physical Organs	Type of Force	Origin	Body
1.	Head -----------------	Pineal------------	Upper brain ------	Spiritual Will ----	Atma -----------	Causal Body
	Brahmarandra.		Right eye	Synthetic	Monad	Jewel in the
	1000-petalled lotus.			Dynamic Will	via Soul	lotus
1. Occultist. Initiate. Master. Dominant after 3rd Initiation.
2.	Center ---------------	Pituitary body---	Lower brain------	Soul force---------	Petals-----------	Buddhic
	Between the eyes,		Left eye, nose,	Love.	of Egoic	Vehicle,
	Ajna center		Nervous system	Magnetic light,	lotus, as	Causal body,
				Intuition, vision.	a whole	Higher mind.
2. Aspirant. Disciple. Mystic. Dominant after 2nd Initiation.
3.	Heart ---------------	Thymus ----------	Heart--------------	Life force ---------	Love ------------	Higher
	Anahata		Circulatory	Group	petals	Mental.
			System, Blood,	consciousness		Causal
			Vagus nerve.			body.
3. All types of Spiritual People. Dominant after 1st Initiation.
4.	Throat center--------	Thyroid ----------	Breathing ---------	Creative-----------	Knowledge -----	Mental
			Apparatus,	Energy, Sound,	petals	body
			Alimentary	Self-consciousness
			canal
4. Creative Artists. All advanced humanity. The Intelligentsia.
5.	Solar -----------------	Pancreas --------	Stomach, Liver----	Astral force ------	Astral centers--	Astral body
			gall bladder, nervous system.	Emotion, desire, touch.
5. Average Humanity. Ordinary people.

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