Since I was a little child, I remember sensing a guiding inner force that I really wanted to define.
Growing up, I am impressed by the information that the human entity is divided into three parts: the cellular body, the etheric soul, and the divine essence spirit.
I need to find a mental thread to simultaneously connect all three parts of my organic labyrinth. I need sequences of wise steps to consciously traverse that labyrinth and understand where that guiding inner force springs from.
As a schoolchild, I am impressed by the scientific and philosophical information that the cellular body is divided into three systems:
A) the Somatic Peripheral Nervous System, that controls the voluntary functions of the body, muscle movement and sensations.
B) the Autonomic Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS), that controls the involuntary activities of the body, such as heart rate and digestion, and that branches into the Sympathetic Nervous System, responsible for the “fight or flight” response, and the Parasympathetic Nervous System, responsible for the “rest and digest” response.
C) the Central Nervous System, responsible for processing and responding to information provided by the PNS, and that consists of the brain and the spinal cord.
The etheric soul is divided also into three values:
1) the Accounting (the dominant force of the soul responsible for decision-making)
2) the Thymic (a force associated with courage, passion, and a sense of honor)
3) the Appetitive (a force associated with basic desires, such as hunger, thirst, and other physical needs, as well as more complex desires, such as those for wealth, prestige, and physical pleasure
And our divine life-giving essence or spirit manifests itself into three higher states of consciousness through our physical functions, or without them, as:
1) Divine life-giving essence from man, as the Son of God
2) Divine life-giving essence from the Holy Spirit, Order of angels and saints
3) Divine life-giving essence from God, Uncreated Light
Much later in life, my heartfelt interest in the auric fields of the seven energy centers causes me to delve into the Fourth Way practices for the spiritual evolution of man. I understand these practices as a positive emotional thread of real worth for awakening. The thread starts by developing our emotional and intellectual intelligence in a space that the Fourth Way calls a ‘school.’
I experience conscious drops of my divine life-giving essence, renewing and maintaining my whole being. I assimilate and emit divine life-giving essence. Now, from the World of Spirit to our Psychosomatic World, all is just Love.
After any pause, this practice of my life’s mission starts again to:
*Develop my body, soul, and spirit by revealing their blockages
*Control any inner disorder
*Transform inner energy into creative action
*Monitor inner corruptions and energy leaks
*Revive the etheric soul in harmonious rhythms
I come renewed, and stand stoical, in gratitude to all the partners of harmony and conscious teachers who create and maintain space for our conscious practice in these multiple worlds.
Natassa Cavalli is an artist living in Athens, Greece, and a frequent contributor to FourthWayToday.org. For more articles by this author, a long-time student of the Fourth Way, see: https://fourthwaytoday.org/author/natassa-cavalli/.
For more on this topic, see: https://fourthwaytoday.org/gurdjieff-and-ouspensky.