60 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
which is outside the dense body is very luminous and about
the color of a new-blown peach blossom. It is often seen by
persons having very slight involuntary clairvoyance. The
writer has found, when speaking with such persons, that they
frequently are not aware they see anything unusual and do
not know what they see.
The dense body is built into the matrix of this vital body
during ante-natal life, and with one exception, it is an exact
copy, molecule for molecule, of the vital body. As the lines
of force in freezing water are the avenues of formation for
ice crystals, so the lines of force in the vital body determine
the shape of the dense body. All through life the vital body
is the builder and restor er of the dense for m. Were it not for
the etheric heart the dense heart would break quickly under
the constant strain we put upon it. All the abuses to which
we subject the dense body are counteracted, so far as lies in
its power, by the vital body, which is continually fighting
against the death of the dense body.
The exception mentioned above is that the vital body of
a man is female or negative, while that of a woman is male
or positive. In that fact we have the key to numerous
puzzling problems of life. That woman gives way to her
emotions is due to the polarity noted, for her positive, vital
body generates an excess of blood and causes her to labor
under an enormous internal pressure that would break the
physical casement were not a safety-valve provided in the
periodical flow, and another in the tears which relieve the
pressure on special occasions—for tears are “white
bleeding.”
Man may have and has as strong emotions as woman,
but he is usually able to suppress them without tears,
because his negative vital body does not generate more