Death--and After?

The perishable quaternary is the Mindoriginal: "Manas", which is dual during earthly life, or incarnation, and functions as the Higher Mind and the Lower Mind. The Higher Mind sends out a Ray—the Lower Mind—which works in and through the human brain, functioning there as brain-consciousness, the reasoning intelligence. This mingles with Desireoriginal: "Kâma," the seat of animal drives and emotions., the passional nature; the passions and emotions thus become a part of the Mind, as defined in Western Psychology. And so we have the link formed between the higher and lower natures in man, this Desire-Mind original: "Kâma-Manas" belonging to the higher by its mental original: "mânasic" elements, and to the lower by its desire-based original: "kâmic" elements. As this forms the battleground during life, so does it play an important part in existence after death original: "post-mortem". We might now classify our seven principles a little differently, having in view this mingling in the Desire-Mind of perishable and imperishable elements:

Some Christian writers have adopted a classification similar to this, declaring Spirit to be inherently immortal, as being Divine; Soul to be conditionally immortal, that is original: "i.e.", capable of winning immortality by uniting itself with Spirit; Body to be inherently mortal. The majority of uninstructed Christians chop man into two: the Body that perishes at Death, and the something—called indifferently