Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01260)

Sat, 27 Apr 1996 12:09:09 -0400, liesel@dreamscape.com (liesel f.
deutsch) wrote:
>So I thought maybe if I give a couple of quotes we could start a
>discussion going. So I'm trying:
>"In the presence of a corpse, the skeptical physiologist stands
>dumb when asked by his pupil whence came the former tenant of that
>empty box, and whither has it gone."
>"Who has been able to penetrate the secret formation of a body...?
>who has sounded to the bottom the abyss in a grain of sand" which
>"has been studied for thousands of years?"
>"Why should there be an attraction between the molecules of
>matter, & none between those of spirit?"
>"The Hermetic, Orphic, and Pythagorean cosmogonical doctrines, ...
>are all based upon  one irrefutable formula, viz.  that the Aether
>& Chaos, or, in the Platonic language, mind and matter, were the 2
>primeval and eternal principles of the universe..."

These quotes, from my perspective, relate, in part, to non-physical
substance.  Out of body experiences have proved to me that humans
have non-physical bodies.  These bodies stay in a specific form so
it folows they consist of a substance that coheres.  Is this
non-physical substance (aetheric? or astral?) made up of units?  If
so, this would mean the non-physical body holds form because the
units of its substance attract each other?  On the physical level,
when the tenant leaves the units of physical substance break apart
from each other.  The physical units diffuse.

[This leads to a sure way of knowing if the physical body is empty
or not.  See if the physical body rots.  Of course our modern noses
can't stand the thought.  We freeze and then embalm or burn bodies
before they stink.]

The attraction of the units of the physical body depend, then, upon
the presence of the tenant.  Does the tenant need to be present to
keep the units of so-called aetheric or astral substance attracted?
If so, how many other bonds must be broken and other bodies
dispersed?  Dying - what a process!

I wonder how the make-up of non-physical substance can be
investigated?  So far I've found the contributions of people who
see non-physical substance not very helpful.  From the little I've
seen, on my own, of these non-physical substances I can understand
why.  They change so much!  Talk about variability - it's mind
boggling.

Virginia Behrens TI, TSA