MS201 Metaphysical Science 1
SOME ITEMS COVERED IN THE COURSE
- Introduction to Metaphysics
- The Field of Evolution
- Where does our Spirit come from?
- The coming forth of Monads.
- The Formation of the five Planes
- The Kingdoms of Life
- The attachment of the higher Atoms: Higher Triad
- The attachment of the lower Atoms: Lower Triad
- The Creative Hierarchies
- Group Souls
- Mineral Group Souls
- Vegetable Group-Souls
- Animal Group-Souls
- Individualization: Mechanism and Purpose
- Individualisation: Methods and Degrees
- Functions of the Causal Body
- Composition & Structure of the Causal Body
- Causal Thought
- Development and Faculties of the Causal Body
- Life after Death: The Fifth Heaven
- The Sixth Heaven
- The Seventh Heaven
- The cause of Reincarnation
- Permanent Atoms and the Mechanism of Reincarnation
- The Ego (Soul) and Reincarnation
- The Ego (Soul) and his “Investment”
- The Ego (Soul) and the Personality
- The Ego (Soul) in the Personality
- The Ego & the Personality: Sacramental Aids
- Memory of Past lives
- The Ego (Soul) on his own Plane
- Initiation
- Buddhic Consciousness
- The Ego (Soul) and the Monad (Spirit)
- The Second and Higher Initiations
COURSE OBJECTIVES :
THE AIM OF THIS COURSE IS TO TEACH YOU :
The course is designed to assist the student in understanding the origin of life and manifestation by creating an overall picture of the process. The human being consists of a physical body but in addition have many higher bodies and different planes of existence and states of consciousness. In later modules, we will study these bodies, eg. the Astral Body, the Mental Body, the Etheric Double, and much later the workings of the higher spiritual bodies. We will examine its methods of functioning, the laws of its growth, its death and the formation, from the nucleus provided by the permanent atoms and mental unit, of new vehicles of the same kind, in order that man’s evolution on the three lower planes of existence can be continued.
When studying the causal body of man, we take a wider sweep in our purview of man’s evolution. The reason for this is, that whilst the etheric, astral and mental bodies exist for one human incarnation only, i.e., are distinctly mortal, the causal body persists throughout the whole of man’s evolution, through many incarnations, and is therefore relatively immortal. There is however a point in man’s evolution when, having completed his purely normal human evolution, when he commences his supernormal human evolution, and actually loses the causal body in which he has lived and evolved during the past ages of his growth.
We study the origin and birth of the causal body, i.e. how it has formed in the first instance had a beginning, and will have an end, but we learn in the course that there must be some other form of consciousness which uses the causal body, much as the ego (soul) in the causal body uses the vehicles of the personality, the Monad (Spirit). In order to comprehend the part that the causal body plays in the tremendous story of human evolution, we must study the human Monad (Sprit), which is that pure spiritual part of us, originating from God.
The course briefly describes the formation of the field of evolution, the flow into that field of the great streams of live, the coming forth of the Monads (Spirit), the building of the many kingdoms of life, and the plunging of the Monads, with the assistance of the permanent atoms, into the material universe. We will look at the gradual development of the life in the Group Souls until eventually, after aeons of existence, the point of individualisation is reached, when the causal body for the first time appears.
The student will learn the functions of the Causal Body, its composition and structure, the nature of causal thought, the development and faculties of the causal body; the portion of life after death spent in the causal body in the higher heaven worlds.
Then we must pass to a fuller examination of the entity, the ego (soul), who inhabits and uses the causal body, projecting from it personality after personality into the cycle of reincarnation. We examine Trishna, the “thirst”, which is the true cause of reincarnation, the permanent atoms and the mechanism of reincarnation; the attitude which the ego takes toward the whole process of reincarnation and to the personalities which he projects into the lower worlds.
The whole relationship of the ego to the personality, his link with it, and the way in which he uses it, must be carefully examined. A special chapter is devoted to certain Sacramental aids towards strengthening and improving the link between the ego and the personality.
past lives.
Finally, we conclude our long history with the relation of the ego to his "Father in Heaven", the Monad.
The field which this course attempts to cover is thus, as already said, a far greater one than that covered in any of the courses. It will enable the student to obtain a broad grasp of the wonderful panorama of human evolution, and to see in true perspective the part played by each of the four subtler bodies of man - the etheric, the astral, the mental and the causal.
Classroom training 4 days
Test & Assignment
Pre-Reading of certain Chapters essential before classroom attendance
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