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The Soul ofthe Kabbalah 95
made between the two different concepts of the Nephesch. Again, drawing
an analogy with eastern theology, this is separated into the Etheric Body
and the Astral Body, which is a body subtle anatomy seemingly classed by
the Kabbalists in the form of the Nephesch. For the Zohar says:94
For there is a certain Nephesch which does not rest and
there is a Nephesch which is not cut off from the body.
The Zohar clearly states that there are both higher and lower forms
of the Ncphesch, with the lower form being equated with the Etheric
Body, which exists in every living creature, and the higher Nephesch,
which equates with the Astral Body and which has the ability to journey
from one place to the next, both with and without the knowledge
of the body to which it is attached. Such traveling can involve actual
physical distances or psychic dimensions. The Astral Body can do both.
So much has been written on this subject that there is no requirement
to repeat it here.
The Astral Body, or Higher Nephesch as some prefer to call it, is in
fact also a plasmic body in its own right. As such, it has a certain amount
of freedom. The Astral Body feeds on both pleasure and pain, and in
some instances, when the individual is at either end of the spectrum, a
distortion can occur where either pleasure or pain can be the main impetus
into this body. The Astral Body then sends down its impulse through
the Etheric Body and its Seven centers to the Physical Body. Distortion
at this level alters the balance of the seven centers and can cause both
physical and mental ill health and is rhe major cause of disease. Any form
of stress build-up carried through to the Astral Body will cause it to
release energy through the Solar Plexus center in rhe Etheric Body to the
Physical Body, resulring in problems concerned with the area this center
governs. In some cases, where extreme karma is called for, the energy or
impetus is then broughr to bear on the Astral Body from rhe next level up
(the Mental Body). This can be in conflict with what the Astral Body is
experiencing at the moment. It may be that the Astral Body is having a
very good time of it through the experiences of the physical, and all of a
sudden a command comes down to change direction. As a result conflict
can occur, which in turn results in disease in the physical.
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