09-18-2019, 06:42 PM
I have been thinking about the densities according to Ra in relation to the Fourth Way cosmology with its 7 cosmoses. So far, a logical unification seems to work out quite neatly. (On the Fourth Way teaching, Mouravieff's Gnosis books are the most philosophically compatible with Ra and this community.)
From the bottom up, the 7 cosmoses can be straightforwardly mapped to the 7 densities. Different types of bodies - including the subtle ones, and their theosophical labels (astral, mental, causal) - are mapped to different cosmoses as well. This is where it gets interesting.
1D: Outside the range of bodies. The bottom cosmos is the realm of "mineral life", or "inanimate" matter.
2D: Physical body. It is made of the same materials as plants and animals, hence is placed at exactly the same level. (Subtle life-energy or etheric layers are added at this level. These seem to be born and to die with the physical body.)
3D: Astral body. Above the near-physical levels of the invisible world, astral domains - and bodies of the "astral" type - are in the realm of 3D, part of human life but not that of plants and animals.
4D: Mental body. Its capabilities, as fully used by some accomplished yogis, include dematerialization, rematerialization, bilocation, etc. - which are 4D abilities.
5D: Causal body. The first level at which a being is so conscious that it can choose which chains of cause and effect it is involved in. At lower levels, the consciousness of the being is dwarfed by that of higher-density participants in the same drama, which seems to logically prevent this.
6D: Outside the range of bodies. Can a transcendent being which is One be said to have a body? (I think that in wanderers, some type of 5D construct is used as a "container" for the 6D presence to work through.)
7D: The level of the All, or Absolute, or Creator.
I find this to make more sense than pop-spiritual classification schemes, which to me seem to confuse levels and to view many things as higher in density (or generic "level" or "plane") than justified in comparison with Ra's cosmology, the Fourth Way teaching, and others that present higher realms as truly "real" in existence and effects of interaction.
But I tend to take descriptions of 4D attributes and those of other higher densities very seriously. Then the common teachings all seem to trivialize it away, when you compare what practitioners do with how densities are described.
From the bottom up, the 7 cosmoses can be straightforwardly mapped to the 7 densities. Different types of bodies - including the subtle ones, and their theosophical labels (astral, mental, causal) - are mapped to different cosmoses as well. This is where it gets interesting.
1D: Outside the range of bodies. The bottom cosmos is the realm of "mineral life", or "inanimate" matter.
2D: Physical body. It is made of the same materials as plants and animals, hence is placed at exactly the same level. (Subtle life-energy or etheric layers are added at this level. These seem to be born and to die with the physical body.)
3D: Astral body. Above the near-physical levels of the invisible world, astral domains - and bodies of the "astral" type - are in the realm of 3D, part of human life but not that of plants and animals.
4D: Mental body. Its capabilities, as fully used by some accomplished yogis, include dematerialization, rematerialization, bilocation, etc. - which are 4D abilities.
5D: Causal body. The first level at which a being is so conscious that it can choose which chains of cause and effect it is involved in. At lower levels, the consciousness of the being is dwarfed by that of higher-density participants in the same drama, which seems to logically prevent this.
6D: Outside the range of bodies. Can a transcendent being which is One be said to have a body? (I think that in wanderers, some type of 5D construct is used as a "container" for the 6D presence to work through.)
7D: The level of the All, or Absolute, or Creator.
I find this to make more sense than pop-spiritual classification schemes, which to me seem to confuse levels and to view many things as higher in density (or generic "level" or "plane") than justified in comparison with Ra's cosmology, the Fourth Way teaching, and others that present higher realms as truly "real" in existence and effects of interaction.
But I tend to take descriptions of 4D attributes and those of other higher densities very seriously. Then the common teachings all seem to trivialize it away, when you compare what practitioners do with how densities are described.