Seven Bodies: Ra vs. Traditional Esoteric Teachings

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I got the idea from deeply meditating on what Ra said. After enough meditation, the light was strong enough I could see between the cracks in Ra's words, and the picture was somewhat more illuminated. It may evolve in time. Enough sincere meditation on anything will reveal the hidden characteristics. You walk the same path a hundred times, you will notice far more details than the one that walks it a few times.

I understood. Thanks a lot.

Ra said that some groups 'called' it the astral body, some others 'called' it the etheric body. But if you read the section of the Ra material where they ask what the 'physical' version of the 4th density body is like, the description is VERY similar to what they described there ('a lighter body packed more densely with life'). Also, they said it was that body that was visible during a seance when 'ectoplasm' (a finer matter) is produced. Past occultists probably didn't have a good name for that body beyond calling it the astral body. When I read old occult literature I often see more confusion that clarity.

Well, I suppose (and this is my humble opinion) that is an astral body because these stretches:

C: Thank you. I would like to ask another question concerning fourth density that we’re all moving into. I would like to know more about body functions in the fourth density. Could you comment on that?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my brother. The body which shall be inhabited by those of the fourth-density positive remaining upon this sphere is a body which is much more densely filled with light and the force of life which we have spoken of as the prana or love/light of the one infinite Creator. Many among your planet, in studying those things of mystery and of an occult nature, describe this body as the astral body. It is the green-ray energy center equivalent to the body you now inhabit as the yellow-ray energy center body. It is a body which responds much more fluidly and instantaneously to the will and faith developed in the indigo-ray energy center so that those actions or artifacts which are desired are much more easily constructed through the indigo-ray energy center’s contact with intelligent energy. This allows for the further development of the, what might be called, discipline of the personality which allows an entity much greater freedom in travel, in contacting telepathically all those about it, whose thoughts are seen to be quite transparent, and to do all things which serve as catalyst and as means for processing catalyst. The body is therefore much more malleable and subject to that which has created it, that is, the mind of the mind/body/spirit complex.

This is the movement of consciousness into that density of love and understanding which it is our honor and our privilege to inhabit. Within this [fourth] density of creation, the form of the body that has been chosen in the second-density experience of plants, of animal, to be invested, then is again used, as it was in the third density, but is used in what you might see of a somewhat different form, that is, what your peoples frequently call the astral body, that body which is lighter in your material gravity, shall we say, but is more densely packed with light. This body, then, is far more responsive to thought, and may move far more freely in time and in space than your bodies move.

On Gnosis and many other esoteric schools, it's teach the Adept must build (through the kundalini rising) an astral body called "solar astral body". Channeling from this year:

Z: I have a query. When a person has a Kundalini rising experience, is that the activation of their fourth-density energy body?

Q’uo: I am Q'uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. The rising of the Kundalini to the indigo ray energy center is that which you may indeed describe as the activation of the fourth-density body, that of the green ray energy center, which is then fully energized to be able to experience the higher vibrations now engulfing your planet so that these vibrations may be shared, or channeled, and transmitted to those about the entity experiencing the so-called Kundalini experience. For though an experience which seems solitary in nature, and, indeed, is experienced in this manner, it is one which offers the opportunities for the expansion of consciousness for others with whom the entity experiencing it shall come in contact.

Looks like the "main" body in fourth density is an astral body and consequently the fourth density environment is astral.

Thanks a lot my brother.