The Five Layers for the Metaphysical Mind
December 3, 2020 2 minutes • 328 words
The previous chapter explained the 5 Layers from the perspective of the Physical Universe, which we call as the Physical Body of the Supreme Entity.
Its Metaphysical Body is made up of the 2 nonphysical Layers:
- Aether
- Spacetime
The base of the Metaphysical Body is the aether just as the base of the Physical Body is matter.
Material bodies are affected by the four upper layers. It follows that Aethereal bodies are also affected by the four lower layers.
This means that aetheral minds, ideas, and feelings have a minumum of 4 variations (influenced by the 4 layers) and 1 core (as keeping with the aether).
For example, the feeling of love has different versions:
| Layer | Positive Variation Example | Negative Variation Example |
|---|---|---|
| Aethereal | Unconditional Love | Obsessive Love |
| Spatial | Universal Love | Nationalism |
| Radiant | Compassion | Greed |
| Convertible | Brotherly Love | Lust |
| Material | Selflessness | Self-preservation |
Subdivisions of this love can be classified within these five, like 5 layers within a layer. For example, nationalism can be subdivided into:
| Layer | Example |
|---|---|
| Aethereal | Love for the nation’s culture |
| Spatial | Love for global recognition |
| Radiant | Love for national economic growth |
| Convertible | Love for citizenship (versus Foreign Residents) |
| Material | Love for territory |
| Level of Mind | Behavior | Layer | Chakra |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10. Unstable goatish mind | driven by instincts | Material | Root |
| 9. Foolish abstinent mind | strives to be moral | Convertible | Sex |
| 8. Childlike fearless mind | seeks to believe in an eternally unchanging god | Convertible | Sex |
| 7. Mind of selfless aggregates | seeks personal liberation | Radiant | Navel |
| 6. Mind free of karmic seeds | understands the process of conditioning | Spatial | Heart |
| 5. Compassionate mahayana mind | has great compassion as it sees the consciousness in nature | Spatial | Heart |
| 4. Mind awakened to the Unborn | realizes the void nature | Aethereal | Throat |
| 3. Mind of the single way | realizes that all worlds are contained in a single thought within mind | Aethereal | Ajna |
| 2. Mind of ultimate no-self-nature | penetrates all things but still dualistic | Aethereal | Ajna |
- Secret sublime mind | breaks through duality | Aethereal | Top
