THE SEVENFOLD CONSTITUTION OF MAN TEACHED BY MAX HEINDEL

In his book The Rosicrucian Cosmos-Conception, Max Heindel put the following table titled "The Sevenfold Constitution of Man" where he enumerates the seven bodies that constitute the human being and their correspondences with the different planes of existence:

(This is in chapter 3, p.88)

And he also published this diagram where he gave more details about it:

(This is in Chapter I, p.54)

But unfortunately the sevenfold constitution of man taught by Max Heindel is false, because it is a copy of the lies that Leadbeater and Annie Besant invented, who after five previous modifications, they taught the following constitution of man:

And as you can see, it is the same structure that Max Heindel taught; he just changed the names a bit:

• The Spirit, he called it the divine spirit
• The intuitional body, he called it the vital spirit
• The causal body, he called it the human mind
• The mental body, he called the mind
• The astral body, he called it the body of desire
• The etheric body, he called the vital body
• The physical body, he called it the dense body

While the true sevenfold constitution taught by the masters of wisdom and their true disciples is:

And although the changes seem minor, and therefore people think that it should not greatly affect teaching. In fact, when you study more deeply the esotericism, you realize that these changes are disastrous for the reasons I have detailed in the previous article.

But here, I would also like to specify that creation is formed in a fractal way: with a basic sevenfold structure that is reflected in all levels of the Universe.

And for this reason exist the law of correspondence which says: “As Above, So Below; As Within, So Without”.

Leadbeater craftily maintained a sevenfold composition in his new version, but he altered the internal structure of the original composition, and with his new version no longer corresponds to the other sevenfold structures of Creation.

For example, the original sevenfold constitution of the human being is grouped into three parts: an upper triad, a lower triad and a bridge between the two:

And this grouping is also reflected in the Earth’s planes of existence taught by the masters.

And this Earth’s sevenfold structure is a small copy of the largest planes of existence of the universe.

And the main reason why Leadbeater altered the original sevenfold constitution of man was for to adapt it to the structure of planes that he also modified.

But as you can see for yourself, with the altered version there is no longer a sevenfold correspondence between the different scales of the Universe, nor with the sevenfold constitution of the human beings, which causes a complete disorder.

And so the classifications invented by Leadbeater (and adopted by Max Heindel) of the bodies of man and plans of existence do NOT serve to study true esotericism, since they are deformed imitations that do not correspond to the real teaching provided by teachers of wisdom.

OBSERVATION

And to make matters worse, I just discovered that Max Heindel did not even invent the new names he gave him to the seven principles of man, but he copied them to Rudolf Steiner, who at the conference he gave in Munich on May 25, 1907, he enunciated the following list:

RUDOLF STEINER	MAX HEINDEL
7. spiritual man 6. life spirit 5. spiritual self 4. the I 3. astral or emotional body 2. ether or vital body 1. physical body	7. divine spirit 6. life spirit 5. human spirit 4. mind 3. desire body 2. vital body 1. dense body

And as you can see, Max Heindel has practically copied the names that Rudolf Steiner set out.

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And this is another example of how much Max Heindel's teaching is full of plagiarism and mistakes.