Tempo:
2. Dead.*
To*begin with, «f course this very word"dead” is an absurd misnomer, as most of the entities classified under this heading are as fully alive as we are oyrselves—often distinctly more so ; so the term must be understood simply as meaning those who are for ihe time unattached to a physical body. They may be subdivided into nine principal classes, as follows :—
1. The NirmAnakdya. This class is just mentioned in order to make the catalogue complete, but it is of course very rarely indeed that so exalted a beipg manifests himself upon so low a plane as this. When for any reason connected with his sublime work fie found it desirable to do so, he would probably create a temporary astrhl body for the purpose from*the atomic matter of the plane, jus{ as the Adept inthe mind-body would do, simply because his more refined vesture would be invisible to astral sight. In order to be able to function without a moment’s hesitation on any plane, he retains always within
To*begin with, «f course this very word"dead” is an absurd misnomer, as most of the entities classified under this heading are as fully alive as we are oyrselves—often distinctly more so ; so the term must be understood simply as meaning those who are for ihe time unattached to a physical body. They may be subdivided into nine principal classes, as follows :—
1. The NirmAnakdya. This class is just mentioned in order to make the catalogue complete, but it is of course very rarely indeed that so exalted a beipg manifests himself upon so low a plane as this. When for any reason connected with his sublime work fie found it desirable to do so, he would probably create a temporary astrhl body for the purpose from*the atomic matter of the plane, jus{ as the Adept inthe mind-body would do, simply because his more refined vesture would be invisible to astral sight. In order to be able to function without a moment’s hesitation on any plane, he retains always within
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