by Ernest L. Norman – Lesson 4, Part II, from The Infinite Concept of Cosmic Creation

Going more thoroughly into what we might call the psychic structures of man, we now come to a point which has led to a great deal of confusion among people. Some of the theosophical concepts state that man has a spiritual body which is composed of many layers, like an onion, and that in going into the various transitions and elevations of spiritual concept, he sheds each succeeding layer. We need to bring it down into a much more practical and more acceptable form.

This drawing represents a man. Each individual has the abdominal viscera, and pulmonary viscera and the various organs with their functions in the body. The human body is a very delicately balanced mechanism. We have a glandular system which is called the endocrine glands; some are ductless glands, others have ducts which enter into the circulatory system.

The point which we are making here is that as far as medical science is concerned, the human body is simply a thing, shall we say, of genetic creation; we came into this world simply as a by-product of a certain genetic process. This erroneous belief is why medicine today is looking for the unsolved riddles of the incurable diseases. The thought has not yet occurred to the medical man that this body could not have come into existence unless it was first conceived in another dimension.

First it had to be visualized and conceived from somewhere other than this 3rd dimension or terrestrial plane. This body was first conceived in the Infinite Mind as a life cycle.

We could say that each of these wave lines in their multiplicities and in countless and innumerable wave forms – and I could go on and on – that each one of these wave forms denotes its own specific and peculiar intelligence. These lines represent energy constantly re-creating itself, as they can be seen on the oscilloscope. This means that each one of these wave forms denotes something and does something under certain specified conditions. The same holds true of energy whether in this or other dimensions. Energy manifests itself in just that way.

We also found out that we have the basic sine wave frequency which is simply energy traveling in some such simple manner. The other modifications are modifications which are due to different conditions. Thinking a thought creates some active participle of integration in your own mind and as a result, it has reverted back into your subconscious. Intelligence resides in two levels – in the superconscious and the subconscious, and since most people function from the subconscious, every act of every day merely means going back into the history of your past, either in this life or in a previous lifetime, and relating certain extractions of experience as they exist in the reactionary or subconscious self.

Within the superconsciousness reside other dimensional structures (as theosophy explains it to you rather crudely), which relate man in the higher purposes to the more Infinite Mind of the Abstract. This Superconscious Mind or Superconscious Self is what Jesus called, “The Father within”. It is our life purpose as we pass through these numerous terrestrial dimensions through the realm of experience, to attain that infinite concept. The ultimate attainment in the subtractions of all the elements of experience will determine whether we become analytical or whether we revert back into some sub-dimensional form. Every time you think a thought in your mind, you create a definite wave form. That wave form does not simply go out here somewhere and pass away because all thought in its purest and highest sense revolves in another dimension.

Now the psychiatrist and the scientist have a machine they call the encephalograph or the brain wave machine. They have found that as far as the science of electronics is concerned, the brain generates a basic sine wave of 10 cycles per second. We also have the intermediate wave forms. In other words, when we suddenly think an intense thought the little needle goes up and down making longer and more irregular wave sines. This is about as far as science has progressed today with brain waves–rather crude, isn’t it? But a step in the right direction. A little further into the future by the construction of proper machines, we shall actually see what these determining wave forms are which are contained in the experience of psychic shock or psychic integration of experience. Basically, the physical body is composed of physical elements of which there are 16, among which are calcium, phosphorus, iodine, cobalt. Roughly speaking your body contains enough water to wash a pair of blankets, sufficient iron to make a ten-penny nail, lime enough to whitewash a chicken coop, and enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on a large dog, in addition to some trace elements. This is what your body consists of basically; all could be purchased for 75 cents in any drug store.

Now you wonder how this body exists. It cannot exist in any other way except from the energy oscillating from the psychic consciousness into this body of ours; during every second of the twenty-four hours of the day, come certain sustaining life forces or energies, and only from this source of energy could it exist. Scientists have not yet arrived at the point where they can put the sustaining life forces in the test tube. They cannot put it under the microscope or re-create it on the screen of an oscilloscope because this sustaining life force comes from another higher dimension which is, up until this point, strictly within the domain of the clairvoyant; people who are so-called psychic or have developed their higher senses. This too, incidentally, is merely another concept because no one can believe anything which he does not want to believe.

We have another body which is called the psychic body; and we have drawn another little man somewhat similar to the other one previously drawn; this we call the psychic self. According to the old Yogi, who understood at least partially what the psychic self was, we have different centers which are called Chakras which stem up the spine. These are centers similar to the sprinkling system used on your lawn; if we turn on the water faucet, the water comes out here and there and all over. At the base of the spine is the kundalini which is related to sex. There is another very important one at the base of the brain called medulla oblongata. Then we have the hypothalamus, this gland links you up with a cone of light energy which has been measured to extend above the individual’s head for at least twenty feet. We also have at the centers of the palms and at the finger tips, other centers. On the soles of our feet, in the ends of our toes, and in the joints of of body are also centers of this sprinkling system of cosmic energy, which is energy coming from the psychic self. For instance, through the solar plexus, which is the vital seat of the organic body, energy comes from out this psychic body and enters into the physical body something like this. So we find we have various radiations. This radiation of light is called an aura. It, too, is measurable and contains seven basic frequencies as far as the terrestrial dimensional science is concerned. The Yogi calls it 3 prana, 3 karmic, and 1 spiritual or celestial vibrations. Now the actual structure of this psychic body itself is composed of innumerable vortexes of energy. Our sun is composed this way and the sun will be at the end or nuclei of this energy which is the source of our life energy. As the lead in the automatic pencil needs some intelligence, someone to insert the lead into the pencil for it to come out the end, in the same manner the sun comes out at the end or apex.

Our earth comes out in another of these vortexes of energy, just as every atom in the body comes from out one of these subdimensional expressions of energy. So it is with the psychic self. Each one of these centers becomes radiating points of light. They are vortexes. Contained within these vortexes are hundreds of millions of wave forms, each one with a definite quotient, its relation to the I.Q., its relation to the experience under which it was conceived. And so when you think a thought, you are transferring thought back into the #1 man, into the psychic self, and the power of that thought will change the numerous little vortexes which are connected to the central brain system of the psychic self, if you can picture it as a brain system.

I hope this is aiding you to begin to grasp the idea of this psychic body of ours. That is where we are constantly manifesting and remanifesting even though we may not be conscious of what we are doing, since the psychic body is the result of the experiences even from thousands of years ago. While we are concerned here in the physical with wave forms, which must always travel in a unified direction, in the psychic self we are not thus concerned because in that body energy is traveling in a circulatory or gyrating fashion or motion, so that in it, is neither time nor space. Energy is constantly reoccurring in its own intelligence but we are not conscious of it at all, except when we see some of the peculiar idiosyncrasies manifesting about us daily in ourselves and others, some of which we can’t account for and others we can. When we find things for which we cannot account happening, we can relate them back to experiences which are concerned in the psychic self. These unaccountable experiences are an extension of the subconscious mind, for we are still functioning on this sub-plane even though the cause may have taken place thousands of years ago.

Now I am very consciously aware of the fact that you cannot assimilate all in one lesson, as I have been studying these principles for so many years. I appreciate the fact that only so much can be absorbed at one time. It is the same as when we sit down to a meal; an overabundance of food tends to lessen not only our appetite, but also to lessen the enjoyment and the assimilation of that food.

If even a part of those reading these lines could actually assimilate what has been given in this lesson, they will have automatically gained what would normally require you three or four hundred thousand years – in some astral and physical worlds – to assimilate. They would get it in a little different way, but they would get it, nevertheless, eventually in later reincarnations. In order to understand the Infinite and our relationship to It, man needs to see the scientific interrelationship in all the Universe as it exists through these radiating energy vortexes as they extend from Infinite Intelligence to the minutest existence. As Jesus pointed out, “The Father and I are one and the same” and he meant each and every one of us and every other individual. Jesus was not the only Son of God. This statement was a misinterpretation which was written into the Bible by St. Jerome or Ireneus or one of the others.

See Part I here.

See Part III here.