Question about a particular Ra quote

[anagogy]

I agree, "octave" is an odd choice of words if they're just talking about fourth density. Also, the phrase "many, many of the energy centers" is surprising, given that we usually think in terms of just seven energy centers. It seems like it can only be "many, many" if we're talking about secondary energy centers, which would again imply subdensities rather than densities.

Good point about no one auditing the course. Nirvana does sound like 8th density.

Does nirvana allow for one to have a form but not identify with it?

Well, there have many masters throughout history that have claimed to have achieved nirvana (e.g. Siddhartha, Ramana, Nisgardatta etc.), and they were still people, or at least, appeared to be so. But, as I understand it, nirvana is the absence of separation, which is the destruction of the ego. The ego is the demarcation, or line between, "who" we are, and "where" we are. So if it was dissolved, you should theoretically be everything and everywhere in existence. As I said, it is the absence of separation, which is also the absence of suffering and attachment.

So the soul that achieves liberation, would appear to be a form, but at death, they would no longer be subject to the incarnational cycle, they would be dis-identified with all forms, both subtle and gross, and would be one with the universe.

Anyway, that is my understanding of nirvana.