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Body, the Occult Agent
THE body
has an individuality of its own. It is an organised formation and acts as a
whole in each and all its parts. The human body is, par excellence, such
a formation; for it is moved and controlled by the consciousness which
overshadows or informs it, which is its master, whose will it executes scrupulously. The
body is an epitome of the world. It encases within its frame the whole world,
particularly the earth – earth itself being an epitome of the world – on a
miniature scale, the mikros reproducing all the features and characters
of the makros. Such being the case, a wholly conscious body governed and
inspired by the supreme Consciousness lives and moves in the cosmic rhythm: not
only does it register in itself the world happenings, but also possesses an
active power to control and even to change those happenings by its individual
movement. We may imagine the body to be a kind of map or chart of the earth.
Each spot on the earth is represented by a particular spot – a certain group of
cells, for example – in the body. If the consciousness ruling the body
concentrates itself upon that point and induces a change there, a corresponding
change can be brought about automatically on a larger scale in the part and
conditions of the earth with which it is connected. Thus without going out and
moving about, without being the "man on the spot" to know things "at
first hand", one can, sitting, in one's room, by switching on a key, as it
were, in one corner of the body, set in movement a whole process of happenings
in a particular region of the earth. By a conscious re-disposition of a few
cells in your body, you can bring about a desired change in world circumstances.
The body is thus a
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upon earth. Naturally, any body cannot do that, but only a body destined and
trained for that purpose. A
body, in this way, becomes the instrument, a lever for producing mighty changes
and creations upon earth. This conception of the occult potency of the body is
at the basis of the rite or institution of sacrifice that was a characteristic
feature of the old-world society. Iphigenia was offered as a victim to avert
the wrath of the gods and bring victory to the Greeks. Sometimes an animal
replaced the human victim and served the same purpose and in the same way. And
in a higher sense – indeed in the highest sense – a body can sacrifice itself
in such a way – wholly and integrally – as to bring about a corresponding
integral reversal or revaluation in the physical world. A human being that
makes of himself a holocaust – burns himself out at the altar of the Divine – keeping
nothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by calling down the
divine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a divine presence and
transformation. A total physical sacrifice results inevitably into a total
expression and embodiment of the Divine in the Physical world.
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