CHAPTER XXVII 



THE NORMAL COLORS OF MAN'S PRINCIPLES 

 CONCLUSION 



SINCE Prdna is the unifying and vitalizing 

 force between all the Principles, its special 

 vehicle, the Etheric body, is subtly related 

 to all, though most closely permeating, in the form 

 of vapor, visible to psychic sight as a perfect 

 shadow, the physical body of which it is both pro- 

 totype and counterpart; for not only does it fore- 

 shadow coming disorders, but also it preserves in 

 its etherealized copy the mark of every wound or 

 blemish even after they are effaced from the physi- 

 cal body. No surgeon's knife can sever the limbs 

 of the Etheric body, and it is this sheath that pre- 

 serves the sensations of an amputated leg or arm. 

 lamblichas defined this Principle as " an unchange- 

 able body of light which does not need anything 

 for its sustenance." It is the evestrum of Paracel- 

 sus. Every life has such a body. 



The healthful, normal activity of this Principle 

 is of immense importance, for it is the medium 

 through which the higher Principles of the human 



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