We have seen in one of our earlier articles that our human microcosm possesses seven bodies. What about our auras, how many do we have? When it comes to human auras, we possess "only" three auras in the strictest sense of the word.
Our lower bodies are, as we have already indicated, our physical, etherical, astral and mental body. The higher bodies -- the Spirit of Man, the Spirit of Life and the Divine spirit --- are part of the Immortal Trinity. After death, our four lower bodies gradually disintegrate and disappear. Upon rebirth, we are granted with new, purified bodies, but never can it happen that we actually choose our date of death or our date of new incarnation. Our higher bodies belong to the Psychic, Spiritual and Divine worlds. They constitute our True Immortal Higher Self. Through a cycle of rebirth, whereby the corresponding bodies from the personality sphere are renewed, our Immortal Trinity is educated, refined and elevated.
These seven bodies, be it lower or higher, are rounded up, in three mutually interpenetrating auras. Here we are talking about our etheric, mental and spiritual auras. All these auras are shaped in a form of an elongated egg. They protect us from the harmful external influences. These auras are extremely elastic and susceptible to changes. Under pressure they can be and often are deformed, but after the pressure has been reduced, they return to their original elongated shape.
Our etheric aura is wrapped around our physical body, protruding some 10 cm from it. It contains vital energy - prana, as well as astral and physical energy. The skin of our etheric aura is able to protect us from the dust of the astral plane. All negative vibrations bounce off of it.
Three meters away from our physical body is the mental aura. It protects us from negative thoughts. Eight meters away is our spiritual aura. When we establish contact with morally bad people, we come in touch with their energy. The best protection against such influences is to be filled with love, just like Christ was, and then no negativities can harm us.
All our bodies and auras are mutually permeated, representing our living, breathing, existing Selves. For the processes of internal forming and building, it is of prime importance to develop our consciousness about the human auras, and about the human true nature and expression. Not unlike the process of evolution that once started its magnificent work at the very bottom, driving towards the top, we too will first consider our physical body (our constituting part we should know the best) as contained within the first etheric aura, only to look at the unknown components at a latter stage.
