The House We Live In & Its Function

goes wrong in the function of it, or in the structure, is it the fault of the house or the dwellers in it who built it?

This is a startling thought when applied to our body. Certainly, when the house is neglected or the management of its mechanism is not understood, then it will not fulfill the requirements nor provide the comforts that are possible under wiser management. The house does not condition the tenant in it, unless the dweller in it neglects the house. Then any one of its automatic services can go wrong and the tenant can be very uncomfortable in the best constructed home.

The analogy of this house to our body (which we often think is the self) is a precise picture of the life of the soul, which is the real self, in the body. This dweller in the body is the Real Self. It functions through energies emanating from its being, as stepped-down currents of wireless circuits in its primary aspect. Mind is the first expression of the soul in matter. Mind is the finest essence of matter - as its neuter [neutral] principle - around which positive and negative forces whirl and spin.

Matter has five phases, or fields of appearances. If the soul is to have experience in all matter, it must have it in all of its five phases: solids, liquids, gases, caloric energy as warmth and heat, and the etheric neuter [neutral] as the medium of sensation.^* (This latter includes the gustiferous ether conveying the electronic particles of taste, the luminiferous ether for sight, and so on through the five senses, working in five fields of etheric matter as sensory and motor functions.)

So, the mind is the first step-down of the soul's energy, as a neuter [neutral] pole which expresses itself perfectly through the five sensory currents as five negative circuits and through the five motor currents as five positive expressions in all five fields of matter. These energies are originally wireless in their action as

* These five phases are referred to in many cultures and systems as the five elements, most commonly called earth, water, air, fire, and ether.