Though science has not directly observed this vital body of man,
it has upon several occasions postulated the existence of such a vehicle as necessary to
account for facts in life and the radiations have been observed by a number of scientists at
different times and under varying conditions. Blondlot and Charpentier have called them
N-rays after the city of Nantes where the radiations were observed by these scientists,
others have[pg 129]named them “The Odic fluid”. Scientific
investigators who have conducted researches into psychic phenomena have even photographed it
when it has been extracted through the spleen by materializing spirits. Dr. Hotz for
instance obtained two photographs of a materialization through the German medium,
Minna-Demmler. On one a cloud of ether is seen oozing out through the left side of the
medium, shapeless and without form. The second picture, taken a few moments later, shows the
materialized spirit standing at the medium's side. Other photographs obtained by scientists
from the Italian medium Eusapio Palladino show a luminous cloud over-hanging her left
side.
We said in the beginning of this description that the vital body
is an exact counterpart of the dense body with one exception: it is of the opposite sex or
perhaps we should rather say polarity. As the vital body nourishes the dense vehicle, we may
readily understand that blood is its highest visible expression, and also that a positively
polarized vital body would generate more blood than a negative one. Woman who is physically
negative has a positive vital body, hence she generates a surplus of blood which is relieved
by[pg 130]the periodical flow. She is also more prone to tears, which are white
bleeding, than man, whose negative vital body does not generate more blood than he can
comfortably take care of. Therefore it is not necessary for him to have the outlets which
relieve excess of blood in woman.
The
Desire Body.
In addition to the visible body and the vital body we also have a
body made of desire stuff from which we form our feelings and emotions. This vehicle also
impels us to seek sense gratification. But while the two instruments of which we have
already spoken, are well organized, the desire body appears to spiritual sight as an ovoid
cloud extending from sixteen to twenty inches beyond the physical body. It is above the head
and below the feet so that our dense body sits in the center of this egg-shaped cloud as the
yolk is in the center of an egg.
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