The desire body is the principal field of operation for the voluntary nervous system and muscles, through which all activity takes place. It has no sense organs, but has centers of perception through which the clairvoyant contacts and gains knowledge of the desire world. These are located at the pineal gland, the pituitary body, the larynx, the liver, the sex organs, and the knees. The seed atom of the desire body is in the liver, where the great central vortex of desire is located.

What is the function of the centers of perception in the desire body? (The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, pages 67-68.)

   The activities of the desire body during waking hours are constantly breaking down the tissue of the dense body. Those who have given the matter study are familiar with the havoc which an emotional upset may have on the physical body. Fear, worry, anger, etc., derange digestion, interfere with the metabolic changes and elimination of waste, and in short, upset the whole system. The effect upon our spiritual well-being is perhaps even more undesirable, no one being able to make spiritual progress until he has in a measure learned to transmute his desires and emotions.

Why is it necessary to master our desire body?

   The mind is now in the first or mineral stage of its evolution. It is not yet formed into a body, but is a luminous cloud composed of mind substance which surrounds and interpenetrates the head. It is the focusing point through which the Ego becomes aware of the material universe and uses it for the acquisition of knowledge of that realm; the age of its maturity is 21 years.

Describe the mind. (The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, pages 75-76.)

   The mind, which is the link between the spirit and the body, is the path or bridge between the Ego and its vehicles--the only means of transmission of soul to spirit. And by means of this bridge the Ego attains self-consciousness in the Physical World.

State the special value of the mind.

   The germ of the mind was given to man in the Atlantean Epoch to give purpose to action, but as the Ego was exceedingly weak and the desire nature strong, the nascent mind coalesced with the desire body. The mind is thus bound up in desire; is enmeshed in the selfish lower nature, making it difficult for the Spirit to control the body. The Lucifer Spirits are the instigators of all mental activity, therefore he who follows the intellectual path of development is subject to all the temptation relative to the desire body: pride, envy, greed, lust for power, et cetera.

What important union is necessary before man can attain to the highest development? (The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, page 18.)

1] The chemical ether is the avenue for the forces which cause assimilation and excretion; the life ether for the forces which bring about propagation; the light ether for the forces generating blood heat and operating through the senses. The reflecting ether only reflects the real Memory of Nature and is the medium through which thought makes an impression on the human brain.

2] The vital body of a child protrudes farther than that of an adult because the material from which it is made has not yet been all appropriated by the Ego.

3] Sleep is necessary to rid the body of the poisons of decay which clog the physical atoms during waking hours.

4] Our dense body is made alive and capable of motion by the prismatic ether atoms which penetrate the atoms of the dense body.

5] The chemical and life ether atoms are prismatic and stationary, while the light and reflecting ether atoms are volatile and migratory.

6] The soul body is a vehicle composed of the two higher ethers of the vital body.

7] An Invisible Helper is one who has developed the soul body to the extent that he can function in it, consciously or unconsciously.