Mental Bodies

[anagogy]

I can get on board with that anagogy

on a related note, how do you interpret the bolded bit below?

The light body or blue-ray body may be called the devachanic body. There are many other names for this body especially in your so-called Indian Sutras or writings, for there are those among these peoples which have explored these regions and understand the various types of devachanic bodies.

what do they mean by 'various types of devachanic bodies'? Does it mean there are disincarnate beings who just exist solely in one of these blue-ray bodies? (inner plane entities in other words).

the particular phrasing has always thrown me for a loop, and I could do with another interpretation.

That is an excellent question, Plenum.

It's not entirely clear in that passage to what, precisely, Ra was referring to, but I will offer my interpretation.

There is the space/time version of the devachanic body which is the physical version of the 5th density body. And that particular body would be the red-ray subdensity of 5th density, or, in other words, that portion of blue ray which overlaps with red ray (a physical body).

In the section of the Ra material that you quoted above, where Ra discusses the "bodies", it is my opinion they were discussing the red ray subdensities of every one of those aforementioned bodies.

Having said that, there is a also a pure blue ray body, which is the subtle mental/devachanic body. And that body is the blue ray subdensity of blue ray. That is the predominantly non physical version of that body.

If you were to imagine a spectrum of vibrations, ranging from red to violet, the lower you were to go down in vibration the more physical and tangible things are, and as you progress up that vibrational scale towards the higher wavelength colors, the more intangible and nonphysical the expression becomes.

So you could imagine a mobius strip, in a sense, where one side (the red ray side) represents predominately matter. The other side of that mobius strip represents predominantly mind. A gradual flip between outer and inner occurs as you go up that spectrum of vibrations. That is why I like the mobius strip analogy.

So with each density there is a "pure subdensity" that is in conformation with its true color density. For example, the orange ray subdensity of 2nd density is lower astral material. The yellow subdensity of 3rd density is middle astral material. And so on, etc.

These are the subtle bodies.

To go back to your question, the subtle version of the "devachanic" or "mental" body is like a mental container for all relevant thoughtforms to its respective vibrational threshold. So you could say the subtle mental body contains all "probable mental forms". And that includes thoughtform bodies which express its level of vibration.

The main thing to understand is that the intangible is the container for all the specific or tangible devachanic forms.