574 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
The separate spirit which dwells in warm red blood
forces its desire currents outwards through liver ................. 69
Thus the liver is the root of the desire body ............................. 68
The desire body has its particular field of operation
in the voluntary nerves and muscles ..................................455
Its operations in the spleen produce white blood
corpuscles ........................................................................455
Materials for new desire body is gathered by Ego
prior to each birth .............................................................134
It is born at 14 when the life ether of the vital body
is ripe and the child becomes adolescent ................... 142, 143
The constant war between desire body and vital body
produces our waking consciousness ..................................455
Desire body is temporarily withdrawn during sleep .................. 93
It is permanently extracted at death ......................................... 97
During life it is ovoid, but takes shape of dense body
at death thus the man appears as before .............................. 66
Desire body of suicide feels hollowed out while
archetype of his dense body persists; he suffers pain
like intense hunger ...........................................................104
Panorama of life etched on desire body forms basis
of postmortem existence Importance of deep etching
and how to assure that end ................................................109
Process of purgation and extraction of conscience ........... 105, 108
Dissolution of desire body when seed atom is taken ................120
Desire bodies of children who die do not dissolve ...................117
The desire body will be perfected in the
Venus Period and compounded with essence of
dense and vital bodies ......................................................423
Its essence, the Emotional Soul, will be absorbed by
the human spirit in Vulcan Period .....................................425
Prayer for the spiritualization of the desire body .....................464
MIND
The necessity and purpose of mind ............................. 57, 75, 298
It is a focusing point like lens in stereopticon, valuable
when not subject to mental St. Vitus dance ................. 89, 393
Given by Lords of Mind in early Atlantis ...............................222
Mind designed to give purpose to action, but became
enmeshed in desire body originating cunning ....................298
Then Race religions were given to cow desire and free mind ...395