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Linga Sharira

The persistent form or image of a human being that exists from birth to death, distinct from the impermanent physical matter.

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Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter V (part 1)
p. 52 CHAPTER V Four-dimensional space. "Temporal body"— Linga Sharîra . The form of a human body from birth to death. Incommensurability of three-dimensional and four-dimensional bodies. Newton's fluents. The unreality of constant qu…”
Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Solomonc
These shells, envelopes petrified or carnified, were such an expression possible, are the source of errors or of evil, which connects with the heaviness and hardness of animal envelopes. In the book Zohar , and in that of the Revolution of…”
Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Tetragramd
Being and nothingness are two absolutely irreconcilable ideas, with this difference, that the idea of nothingness, which is altogether negative, issues from the very idea of being, whence even nothingness cannot be understood as an absolute…”
Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 5. The Pentagramc
The secret of this Great Work does not remain for discovery; it has been known and practised by a great number of initiates, above all by the celebrated Apollonius of Tyana, who has left a theory concerning it, as we shall see in the “Ritua…”
Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realizationb
The revealers have therefore done scarcely more than divine, by the accuracy of their calculations, the appropriate moment for moral reactions. The law of realization produces what we call magnetic breathing; places and objects become impr…”
Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realizationc
The Astral Body is not always of the same sex as the terrestrial, that is, the proportions of the two forces, varying from right to left, seem frequently to belie the visible organization, producing seeming aberrations of human passion and…”
Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancya
EX IPSIS MORS We HAVE said that the images of persons and things are preserved in the Astral Light. Therein also can be evoked the forms of those who are in our world no longer, and by this means are accomplished those mysteries of Necroma…”
Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancye
There are evocations of intelligence, evocations of love and evocations of hate; but, once more, there is no proof whatsoever that spirits leave the higher spheres to communicate with us: the opposite, as a fact is more probable. We evoke…”
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