THEOSOPHICAL DIVISION.
| Sanscrit Terms. | Exoteric Meaning. | Explanatory. | |
| (a) Rupa, or | (a) Physical body. | (a) Is the vehicle of | |
| Sthula-Sarira. | all the other | ||
| “principles” during | |||
| life. | |||
| (b) Pranâ. | (b) Life, or | (b) Necessary only | |
| Vital principle. | to a, c, d, and | ||
| the functions of the | |||
| lower Manas, which | |||
| A | embrace all those | ||
| limited to the | |||
| (physical) brain. | |||
| (c) Linga Sharira. | (c) Astral Body. | (c) The Double, the | |
| phantom body. | |||
| (d) Kama rupa. | (d) The seat of | (d) This is the centre | |
| animal desires | of the animal man, | ||
| and passions. | where lies the line | ||
| of demarcation which | |||
| separates the mortal | |||
| man from the | |||
| immortal entity. |
Transcriber's Note:
The letter A in the left hand column stands for “Lower Quaternary.” which was written vertically in the original table.
| Sanscrit Terms. | Exoteric Meaning. | Explanatory. | |
| (e) Manas—a dual | (e) Mind, Intelligence: | (e) The future state | |
| principle in its | which is the higher | and the Karmic | |
| functions. | human mind, whose | destiny of man | |
| light, or radiation, | depend on whether | ||
| links the Monad, for | Manas gravitates | ||
| the lifetime, to the | more downward to | ||
| mortal man. | Kama rupa, the | ||
| seat of the animal | |||
| passions, or | |||
| upwards to Buddhi, | |||
| Spiritual Ego. In | |||
| the latter case, | |||
| the higher | |||
| A | consciousness of | ||
| the individual | |||
| Spiritual | |||
| aspirations of | |||
| mind (Manas), | |||
| assimilating | |||
| Buddhi, are | |||
| absorbed by it | |||
| and form the Ego, | |||
| which goes into | |||
| Devachanic bliss.[19] | |||
| (f) Buddhi. | (f) The Spiritual Soul. | (f) The vehicle of pure | |
| universal spirit. | |||
| (g) Atma. | (g) Spirit. | (g) One with the | |
| Absolute, as its | |||
| radiation. |
Transcriber's Note:
The letter A in the left hand column stands for “The Upper Imperishable Triad.” which was written vertically in the original table.
Now what does Plato teach? He speaks of the interior man as constituted of two parts—one immutable and always the same, formed of the same substance as Deity, and the other mortal and corruptible. These “two parts” are found in our upper Triad, and the lower Quaternary (vide Table). He explains that when the Soul, psuche, “allies herself to the Nous (divine spirit or substance[20]), she does everything aright and felicitously”; but the case is otherwise when she attaches herself to Anoia, (folly, or the irrational animal Soul). Here, then, we have Manas (or the Soul in general) in its two aspects: when attaching itself to Anoia (our Kama rupa, or the “Animal Soul” in “Esoteric Buddhism,”) it runs towards entire annihilation, as far as the personal Ego is concerned; when allying itself to the Nous (Atma-Buddhi) it merges into the immortal, imperishable Ego, and then its spiritual consciousness of the personal that was, becomes immortal.