Your mind is a electromagnetic manifestation

[anagogy]

(47.8) The red-ray body is your chemical body. However, it is not the body which you have as clothing in the physical. It is the unconstructed material of the body, the elemental body without form. This basic unformed material body is important to understand for there are healings which may be carried out by the simple understanding of the elements present in the physical vehicle.

(47.8) The yellow-ray body is your physical vehicle which you know of at this time and in which you experience catalyst. This body has the mind/body/spirit characteristics and is equal to the physical illusion, as you have called it.

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These seem to suggest otherwise.

I used to think so as well, but have since changed my perspective on this issue.

In my earnest opinion, Ra was describing the red ray subdensity of each of those aforementioned ray bodies.

So when they talked about the red ray body, they were talking about red-ray subdensity of red ray. When they talked about the orange ray body, they were talking about the red-ray subdensity of orange ray, and when they described the yellow ray body, they were describing the red ray subdensity of yellow ray, and so on, etc.

But it makes sense that Ra would describe the bodies in that way, especially as they were just laying the foundation for unscrambling the plethora of occult opinion on the subject, and also as they were trying to correlate it with the density concept thus provided. After all, they stated, "Firstly, the basic energy of so-called red ray. This ray may be understood to be the basic strengthening ray for each density. "

Every density expresses in all the rays. I used to think that density and ray were synonymous, but later discovered they were, in fact, different.

So they were describing the physical expressions of all those bodies. All those bodies also have lower astral expressions, middle astral expressions, higher astral expressions, devachanic expressions, etheric expressions, and buddhic expressions.

It's one of my favorite subjects actually, and I appreciate you providing the opportunity for me to bring it up.

When Ra said it was equal to "the physical illusion", they meant, in my opinion, that it was equal to *our* physical illusion. For example, it would *not* be equal to the physical illusion of 2nd density organisms or 1st density organisms, their physical illusion is different.

Another clue that they were only discussing physical bodies in that particular section of the Ra material was when they get to talking about the blue ray body and add:

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. There are many, many types of bodies in each density, much like your own.

Whereas, on the inner planes, it is not much effort to conjure up a different type of body.

Another clue in that section is the fact that first three bodies described we know to be physical. Ra makes no mention of the last few bodies described as being nonphysical, thus, we can assume they are still describing physical bodies. And when I say "physical", I don't necessarily mean "matter", the last 4 bodies definitely begin to lean in the direction of energy, rather than matter, but I still maintain they are physical energies (at least, in this circumstance Ra described).

Anyway, I welcome your thoughts, opinions, and questions on this subject. It is a very interesting topic.