Lecture VI

After the dissolution of the etheric body, the human being consists of the astral body and the I. The images of the panorama of life are of great importance, for they now become forces that are imprinted on the astral body. They are transformed as if they were a kind of nourishment for it. From this sum of forces grows the causal body, which is the fifth member of the human being. This is what the human being retains during the devachan period and throughout all incarnations. When the human being first incarnated — we no longer have to deal with such conditions now — he consisted of only four members: physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I. The causal body was only present in a very embryonic form. They carried it with them until the next incarnation. And with each incarnation, the causal body grew. The images of memory are imprinted on the causal body each time, enriching it and making it more diverse. After passing through Kamaloka, the human being has an ego and a causal body and is clothed in his astral body. Before that, he must relive his entire past life in every smallest action, down to the smallest detail. He must pause at every experience of this past life and relive it in reverse. Only then can he enter Devachan.