CHAPTER III
THE DESIRE BODY AND THE MIND
In the third Revolution of the Moon Period the
Lords of Individuality radiated from themselves the
substance which they helped the unconscious, evolving
man to appropriate and build into a germinal desire
body. They also helped him to incorporate this
germinal desire body into the compound vital body and
dense body which he already possessed. This work was
carried on all through the third and fourth Revolutions
of the Moon Period.
The antagonistic “lower will” or will of the body,
is an expression of the higher part of the desire body.
When division of the Sun, Moon, and Earth took place
in the early part of the Lemurian Epoch, the more
advanced portion of humanity-in-the-making
experienced a division of the desire body into a higher
and a lower part. The rest of humanity did likewise in
the early part of the Atlantean Epoch.
This higher part of the desire body became a sort
of animal soul. It built the cerebro-spinal nervous
system and the voluntary muscles, by that means
controlling the lower part of the threefold body until
the link of mind was given. Then the mind “coalesced”
with the animal soul and became a co-regent.
During the life of man his desire body is not
shaped like his dense and vital bodies. After death it
assumes that shape. During life it has the appearance