572 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
A separate vital body is necessary to growth
and assimilation ........................................................... 57-58
It serves to give shape to the dense body during
antenatal life .............................................................. 60, 137
Vital body is born at 7th year; causing growth ........................141
Under normal conditions it remains imbedded in
dense body from birth to death .......................................... 61
The chemical, life, light and reflecting ethers in vital body
are ripened successively ...................................................143
The vital body is of opposite sex or polarity to
the dense body .................................................................. 61
Lemurian girls developed memory first on account of
having a positive vital body ..............................................280
The blood and glands are its particular expression .......... 397, 455
The positive vital body of woman gives intuition,
also causing periodical flow and tears ................................ 60
The blood absorbs from inspired air panorama of past life
engraves it on seed atom and vital body ............... 91, 397-398
At death vital body is withdrawn and panorama of
past life extracted ....................................................... 97, 102
When seed atom is withdrawn vital body gravitates
back to dense body and decays simultaneously
with that .................................................................. 102, 103
Our wakening consciousness results from war
between desire body and vital body ..................................455
Collapse of the vital body is cause of sleep .............................. 93
In health surplus of vitality is radiated as N-rays;
they expel deleterious microbes from system ..................... 63
These radiations are weak in sickness, hence disease
germs may easily enter and cause complications ................ 63
Why pain is felt in a limb subsequent to amputation ................. 64
The more lax the connection between the dense and
vital bodies the more sensitive we become to
super-physical vibrations ..................................................241
The desire body is improved by law; the vital body
by altruism, developed in higher life .................................404
Initiation before Christ was therefore reserved
to a chosen few ........................................................404-405