LECTURE SERIES

Richard Koepsel has been a student of The Rosicrucian Fellowship for just about 50 years. His view of it all is "Freely have ye received, now freely give".

Building The Soul Body

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Astrology and the Vital Body

SERIES

Man, the indwelling Spirit, has at his present stage of development four vehicles through which he functions: the dense body, the vital body, the desire body, and the mind. Although these bodies are closely interrelated and are affected by each other, it is helpful to the student in understanding thoroughly their functions and possibilities to study each one separately and intensively.

The Western Wisdom School teaches as its fundamental maxim that "all occult development begins with the vital body," stated Max Heindel initiate of the Order of the Rose Cross.

"Hence the disciple of the Ancient Wisdom is taught to realize that man is not essentially a personality, but a spirit." (Manly P. Hall)

BUILDING THE SOUL BODY

In this first series I decided to address the most important practical application of the Rosicrucian philosophy. Our work is to prepare humanity to take the next step in the evolutionary creation. In order for one to take the next step one must have developed the soul body sufficiently to have waking consciousness outside of the dense physical body which will dissolve when our planet dissolves and is reformed in the etheric subdivision of the physical world. This series states that objective and its importance and then describes the regions of the etheric subdivision of the physical world and our corresponding vital body. The series then goes on to describe how one attracts the higher ethers for building the etheric soul body and then how to assimilate and organize them. It finishes with a discussion on how to transfer the attention of consciousness from the dense physical body to the etheric soul body.

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Lecture I - Introduction to the Importance of Building the Soul Body

Lecture II - The Ethers and the Vital Body: A Closer Look at the Ethers

Lecture III - Acquiring the Life Ether: Attracting Life Ether into the Soul Body

Lecture IV - Acquaring the Reflecting Ether: Attracting Reflecting Ether & Assimilation of Soul Material

Lecture V - Organization the Soul Body:Transference of Attention and Consciousness to the Soul Body

ASTROLOGY OF THE VITAL BODY

In Astrology and the Vital Body there is a description of the general character of the vital body in astrological terms from its genesis in the Sun Period. The next four talks illustrate qualities of each of the four ethers in the vital body by examining horoscopes of famous people who exemplify concentrations in each of the four ethers.