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The Soul ofthe Kabbalah 105
group ritual the outline of these shells are from the Erhenc Body, directed
by the Will of the Adept. while the outline, color, and shape are all taken
from the Etheric Body, the actual power it gives one is on a higher plane.
This will be discussed in other papers relating to other auric bodies later,
though for the present the basic foundation of their creative form is Etheric
energy or energy directed from the Etheric Body. It is this energy that is
felt and sometimes seen by those clairvoyant enough during ritual.
THE SEVEN CENTERS
The Seven centers of man, commonly called chakras (from the Sanskrit
meaning "wheel"), are indicated on the floor of the Vault as the sevenheaded
dragon. Here are all the ills of man, manifested through these
seven centers. By symbolically standing on them, we, in fact, control the
potent and negative energies that they can introduce. On the Altar table
there are the four images of the Calf, Man, Lion, and Eagle, which represent
the four lower centers. Because they are still on the floor, yet raised
above it, they arc the lower natures of man which have been exalted so
that a form of realignment or changing of their vibrational pitch occurs,
which brings them into higher contact with our Higher Nature. Each of
these four centers relates to an element and to the elemental grades the
Adept has gone through, which in theory have also stimulated each of
these four centers. The Altar itself represents what could be called the
"Eight center" and is associated to the spleen, the energy vortex from
which the energy flows, so that it can be transmitted to the seven centers
on the back. The "Eight center," as the Altar, is the control point for this
energy. The 49 petals of the Rose and Cross at the head of the pastos
(normally placed below the Altar) relate to the 49 minor centers that are
under control through the four major lower centers as portrayed on the
Altar. On the ceiling of the Vault we have the seven centers at their
highest point and on the floor the seven centers at their lowest, with man
standing in the middle trying to aspire to the highest through the influences
of the Seven Rays-the vault walls.
Each of these chakras, save the spleen, manifests in the four auric
bodies. In the Physical Body we have the seven major gland areas that act