According
to Max Heindel, the vital prismatic atom is
the etheric counterpart of the physical atom, and on this subject in his book
"Occult Principles of Health and
Healing", he wrote the following:
« During life each prismatic vital atom
penetrates a physical atom and vibrates it. To form a picture of this combination,
imagine a pear-shaped wire basket having walls of spirally curved wire running
obliquely from pole to pole. This is the physical atom; it is shaped nearly
like our Earth, and the prismatic vital atom is inserted from the top, which is
widest and corresponds to the north pole of our Earth. Thus the point of the
prism penetrates the physical atom at the narrowest point, which corresponds to
the south pole of the Earth, and the whole resembles a top swinging, swaying,
and vibrating. In this manner our body is made alive and capable of motion.
(Observation:
here Max Heindel is referring to the atom imagined by Edwin Dwight Babbitt and
presented in 1878 in his book “The
principles of Light and Color”.
And this
shows the great ignorance of Max Heindel and his deep disinterest in science
because since the beginning of the 20th century, physicists already knew that
the atom did not have this shape. So Max Heindel simply copied what Charles
Leadbeater wrote, who in turn copied what Edwin Babbitt wrote, and Max Heindel
made no effort to investigate further.)
The light and reflecting ethers are avenues
of consciousness and memory. They are somewhat attenuated in the average
individual and have not yet taken definite form; they interpenetrate the atom
as air interpenetrates a sponge, and they form a slight auric atmosphere
outside each atom.
It has been determined by physical science
that the atoms in our dense body are constantly changing so that all the
material which composes our present vehicle at this moment will have
disappeared in a few years, but it is common knowledge that scars and other blemishes
perpetuate themselves from childhood to old age. The reason for this is that
the prismatic ether atoms which compose our vital body remain unchanged from
the cradle to the grave. They are always in the same relative position — that
is to say, the prismatic ether atoms which vibrate the physical atoms in the
toes or in the fingers do not get to the hands, legs, or any other part of the
body, but remain in exactly the same place where they were placed in the beginning.
A lesion of the physical atoms involves a similar impression on the prismatic ether
atoms. The new physical matter molded over them continues to take on shape and
texture similar to those which originally obtained.
The foregoing remarks apply only to the
prismatic atoms which correspond to solids and liquids in the Physical World because
they assume a certain definite shape which they preserve. But in addition each
human being at this stage of evolution has a certain amount of light and
reflecting ether, which are the vehicles of sense perception and memory,
intermingled in his vital body. We may say that the light ether corresponds to the
gases of our Physical World; perhaps the best description that can be given of
the reflecting ether is to call it hyper-etheric. It is a vacuous substance of
a bluish color resembling in appearance the blue core of a gas flame. It
appears transparent and seems to reveal everything that is within it, but
nevertheless it hides all the secrets of nature and humanity. In it is found
one record of the Memory of Nature.
The light and reflecting ethers are of an
exactly opposite nature to that of the stationary prismatic ether atoms. They
are volatile and migratory. However much or little a man possesses of this
material, it is an accretion, a fruitage, derived from his experiences in life.
Inside the body it mingles with the bloodstream and when it has grown by
service and sacrifice in life’s school so that it can no longer be contained
within the body, it is seen on the outside as a soul body of gold and blue. »
(Chapter 2)
OBSERVATION
Unfortunately what Max Heindel said here is false
because in reality ethers do not exist for the reasons that I explain in this
other article.
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