ETHERIC DOUBLES (see ETHER & ETHERIC VITALITY as well)

DD 0l         ETHERIC DOUBLES (FT 190)

Each body of every existence, from the simplest to the most complex structure, possesses an etheric double centered within the body and extending slightly beyond it. The etheric doubles, both perfect and incorruptible, serve as the moulds for a body's construction and in preservation of the body's health. Within etheric doubles ether is accumulated ­ and distributed to various parts of the body. The etheric double exists as long as the body (whether material, psychical or noetical) is projected. When a body dies (passes over), its etheric double dissolves.

DD      10                ETHERIC DOUBLE (FR 299)

The energy field which keeps the three bodies -- the gross material, psychic, and noetic -- alive and linked to one another. Each particle of the body has its corresponding double. It is the etheric vitality that makes healing possible. The universe is filled with etheric energy. It be transferred from one individual to another and is absorbed through the chakras.

EP      11     It is, therefore, a primary responsibility for those who are interested in the Truth to learn all that is permissible concerning the human bodies. With the help of the Archangels, we need to master our etheric doubles, and control the etheric vitality (in the four forms of ether: sensate imprint, kinetic and creative) for use in our psycho-noetical development, maintaining our health and the health of others.

EP      65     ETHERIC DOUBLES

Within the gross material body of all living organisms there exist currents of energy called "ether", providing life and health. The flow, distribution and storage of this energy takes place within a field which surrounds and permeates the body. We call this field the "etheric double".

Every gross material, psychical, and noetical body has an etheric double. Each atom and cell in the body possesses an individual etheric double: together they combine to form the etheric double of a body.

The etheric doubles serve as moulds in which the bodies are first formed. The Archangels of the elements work through the etheric double to build a body atom by atom, molecule by molecule. A body, once built, is then maintained by the etheric double which supplies and distributes etheric vita­lity to its various locations. Etheric doubles, always per­fect and incorruptible, oversee the life-course of an ex­pressed form according to its Circle of Possibility.

EP  66     A body cannot exist without an etheric double, nor can the etheric double live independently of the body. An etheric double cannot detach itself from its body, except when the body is dissolving.

Both the psychical and noetical bodies have their own etheric doubles, which are used as active links between the bodies. Apart from overseeing the distribution of energy within the gross material body, the etheric doubles are used as conduits - for the flow of etheric vitality - between the material, psychical and noetical bodies.

Familiarity with our etheric doubles is of great concern to us. It is vital that we become intimate with their natures, so that we may control the health within our own bodies and aid others in need of healing. Meditation and exercise are the prime means for learning more about our etheric doubles.

ET      75     Let us now examine that part of the Mind which is more or less invisible, which can solidify into material substance. This is usually known as the etheric double of the human body.... Nevertheless, a study of the subject in conjunction with the appropriate exercises, can persuade us not only of its existence, but also of its holy quality. This is indeed the first pointer to our recognition of the work of the Holy Spirit in the Divine control of the gross material body and that, later, we may co-create, within the material body, together with the Holy Spirit.

Inside our material body, there is a vital energy, which we call etheric vitality, which serves within our ego personality as the raw material of creation.

In practical terms, we draw this energy in large quantity from the Sun. Some comes from the Infinite as vibrational radiation and quite a bit from our food. In general, however this energy is Mind, either in a diffused or a focussed form.

ET  75     Each molecule, each cell of our gross material body is alive and is maintained by an etheric double. And it is the energy in this etheric double which provides the power for the five senses to function, so that we may receive and record impressions of the phenomenon of life. The etheric double regulates the autonomic functions within us, which include the operation of the heart, the circulation of blood and other fluids, and the coordination of many other activities essential to the continued expression of the phenomenon of life.

ET  76     With appropriate training, we can project and direct etheric vitality from the etheric doubles of the bodies and send it over vast distances, and perform so-called miracles. To do this we can take a part of the Mind-substance of etheric vitality, give it form and project it as a mental image, outside both our gross material body and our etheric double.

This happens consciously when we form what we call "thought­-desires", but unconsciously when we form "desire-thoughts". Jesus Christ called the latter "deaf and dumb spirits" (Mark 9:25). These two types of thought-forms, because they are both living forms, we call "elementals".

Etheric vitality is the "Bread¹' which comes to us from Heaven. It is the means by which we build, when rendered into elementals, the present day personality. It is also the means of cleansing and purifying the character, which ultimately serves to assimilate our personality into the Inner Self - our Self-ware Soul.

ET  99      Then we have the etheric double of the psychic body of the planet which infuses the whole globe and extends, from its centre, around it for a very long way, coming close to the Moon's etheric double. It is only rarely and at a certain periods that the Earth's psychic etheric body touches that of the Moon. When it does so, it is in order to compel certain spirit beings to go to the Moon and to allow humanity to progress and develop in peace.

These are tormented spirits of those whose behavior in their earthly existence now binds them to our planetary system. occasionally such spirits, or their elementals, can enter through the etheric double the psychic body of a person, via the liver centre, and take temporary possession of that person. We have the phenomenon of what is called "demonic possession", the "sacred disease" --epilepsy-- and several other names, which were better known in ancient times. Fortunately these beings cannot stay long on Earth. The Moon pulls them back. This is an agreement.

The noetical body of our planet spreads out and touches all the other heavenly bodies of the solar system. We would say that the whole solar system, with the Sun at its centre, is within the single aura of the etheric double of the noetical body, which regulates all movement within the galaxy.

 

ET 115 CHAPTER TWELVE "THE ETHERIC DOUBLE"

ET 115        Every gross material, psychic, and noetical body has an etheric counterpart or double. Each atom and cell in the material body possesses an individual etheric double, which combine to form the etheric double of the entire body.

ET 115        We find that there is no particle, atom or cell within the gross material body which does not have an etheric counterpart, which holds it together, maintains it and coordinates its growth.

Judging by the way it behaves within material cells, the nature of this etheric energy is something akin to electro­magnetic plasma, as today's scientists call it. It is there for a definite purpose. We must not imagine that the flesh, the blood or the nervous system create this force. It would be as ignorant to believe this as to imagine that the wire creates the electricity. It carries it, certainly.

ET 116        Etheric vitality is, in fact, Mind in an expression, which vibrates to create the human personality - -when shaped into psycho-noetical elementals- -. The etheric doubles are used as the conduit - for the flow of etheric vitality - between the material, the psychic and the noetical bodies. Both the psychic and the noetical bodies have their own etheric doubles, which they use, quite apart from their special tasks₁ as the links between all three bodies.

The etheric double cannot, independently of the gross mate­rial body or by itself, mirror the human condition, as can happen with the psychic and noetical bodies. An etheric double cannot detach itself from its body, except when the body is dissolving.

ET 116        Within the human body we have identified four classes of etheric substance: creative ether, sensate ether, imprint ether and kinetic ether.

Creative ether is that state which, under supervision of and according to the will of the Holy Spirit constructs and maintains the phenomena of life.

ET 117        The Holy Spirit, guided by Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love, uses creative ether to build the gross material body and its various organs. It builds, maintains, and takes care of the body's proper functioning. Whatever part of the material body we study - the texture of the brain, the fluid of the eyes, the different sense organs, the operation of the glands, of the lungs, of the liver, of the intestines -all bear witness to the continuous presence of the Holy Spirit.

ET 117        Imprint ether is used to shape etheric vitality and is vital to our work in visualization. Due to imprint ether we are able to memorize and store images. Imprint ether, when used in recording images, helps us to see the shapes in various sizes, colours and designs.

ET 117        Sensate ether is the "feeling giving'¹ ether. By merit of sensate ether we enjoy the sensation of physical pleasure, or suffer from bodily pain. Sensate ether is also used by the human personality and its permanent personality in conjunc­tion with imprint ether. By the parallel use of these two etheric states, the phenomenon of memory is constructed, which is only the smallest part of  real memory. Real memory, of course, is not to be found in any of our material organs or in the structure of a present day personality, but exists in that part that we call "The Kingdom of Heaven within us" and is of our Soul Self.

Kinetic ether, which facilitates motion, begins long before our birth. All the conscious movement --walking, movement of the hands, the eyes and so on--, as well as the autonomic ones --circulation of blood, breathing, the receipt, assimilation and discarding of substances, and all the other unconscious actions-- take place with the help of kinetic ether.

ET 118        There is, indeed, another kind of movement, sometimes called ectoplasmic projection of etheric vitality, which, however, concerns only those human beings who are in an advanced state of initiation and are deliberately exteriorizing etheric energy.

ET 118        When we achieve control of our etheric double by patient training and a correct way of life, we can dispatch energy from it by means of its kinetic property, into the bodies of other human beings, in order to help those persons.

In psychotherapy, we send out this etheric vitality impregnated with our will, to heal and correct various conditions. This means that, in order to do so, we must draw energy from the etheric double of our gross material and psychic bodies. If we do this self-consciously, we imbue it simultaneously with noetical substance, creating an elemental of the thought-desire variety, endowed with all the four kinds of ether. If super-consciously projected, we can follow the course and activity of this elemental.

ET 118        Our imprint ether keeps us informed of what this elemental is doing and whether it is doing what we sent it to do.

Our sensate ether helps us to feel what is going on within the body of the sick person.

Our kinetic ether is the means for the transport of the elemental, while the creative ether carries out the actual therapy.

ET 119        A human being who is weak, in seeking to regain his strength, draws, subconsciously , etheric substance from stronger persons around him. In most instances the givers feel pleased, provided their own stock is sufficient.

In cases where this withdrawal is excessive, the donor begins to feel uncomfortable. Many likes and dislikes in our society are created by the unconscious transfer of etheric substance from one person to another.

ET 119        By nature, the ordinary person does not have such quantities of etheric vitality as not to be exhausted when other people draw it out of him subconsciously, or when he himself, in his arrogance, gives it away to other human beings, whom - egoistically - he thinks he loves. In such cases, various vibrations are created in the psychic body of the donor. which take the form of antipathy, fear, unease and other conditions.

ET 124        We possess a complete etheric double, exactly similar to the gross material body in shape. We also have a radiance around the material body, which we call "health aura". Whereas the etheric double of the body is perfect and unchanging, and the physical body should reflect this wholeness and purity, the health aura is a colourful radiation of the state of health prevailing in the body. For those with the ability to see this aura --preferably a gift limited to healers-- they are able to determine the physical and emotional condition of a personality.

Illness, be it physical or psychic, is first visible on the health aura of an individual even before any pain or discomfort is felt. Problems arise when the etheric double is unable to impart enough etheric vitality to a location in the body, as a result of fearful, aggressive or stressful lifestyles. The body then fails to reflect the perfection of the etheric double, as the health aura begins to display signs of decay and corruption.

Now, if we study the body of a person who is ill, we shall see that at a particular point of the etheric double where the sickness is located, neither the creative ether nor the kinetic ether are working strongly. On the other hand, we shall notice that the sensate ether shows increased activi­ty, giving us the phenomenon of pain. The purpose of pain is to draw our attention and direct more ether to that point.

ET 125        We characterize the type of illness by the symptoms which appear in the material ~

What symptoms do we see?

What we see is a lack or an expansion of creative ether at the relevant point.

This is a sickness of the material body and occurs when the personality, which dwells in the body has wasted etheric vitality --on hatred, anger, envy and other unbridled emotions-- taxing the Holy Spirit, Who - in Its Total Wisdom - prevents further use of creative ether for the construction and maintenance of the personality's health.

In a healthy human being we see all the organs working in harmony in the material body, each according to the purpose for which it was created. We also see the etheric double carrying out its own work in those organs, and the aura is radiating around the human body.

ET 126         Just as the material body has various organs serving one purpose or another we see certain etheric centres of energy in positions corresponding to those organs in the gross material body. These centres serve a dual function. In one way, they take care of the maintenance of the organs situated in that part of the body. In another mode they act as links between the material body of a human personality and the psychic body, in order to channel emotions and energy, as they arise as a result of space-place-time impres­sions. These points are known as etheric or psycho-noetical centres.

ET 126        On the gross material body's etheric double, we have psycho-noetical centres, which we call "sacred discs". In the etheric double of the psychic body we have, once again, these psycho-noetical centres, but they are more intense in their activity. We call them "sacred spheres". Finally, in the etheric double of the noetical body, there are even more active centres with a wider concept of space and time. St. John in the Revelations, refers to these as "stars" (Rev. 1:16,20).

ET 126        (Explanation of the functions of the "sacred disc" found in ET 126-129, which is summarized under "sacred disc" in this manual.)

FH 266        Through meditation (and self-analysis) we are working on the etheric double.

FH 267        Both the amorphous psycho-noetic body and the perfect psychonoetic body each have an etheric double. But for both of these bodies the etheric double is fused into one.

HS  53         The three bodies that make up the present self-conscious personality are linked together through their corresponding etheric doubles. Each body is surrounded and penetrated by life-giving ether, that keeps it alive.

HS      53      The relationship of the body to its etheric double is equivalent to the relationship between the battery and electricity within it. It is the etheric double which keeps the body alive.

HS      53      It is through the etheric doubles that all three bodies are linked together and influence one another. It is through the centres of the etheric doubles that the life-giving ether is absorbed and channeled into the human body.

PA      72      The noetic body does not have an etheric double as such. Mind is Mind, and we cannot distinguish Mind as an etheric double of the noetic - mind - body. It is simply Mind. Mind is concrete or abstract, concrete or formless supersubstance. Can you call that an etheric double? (to be investigated)