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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov

mental bodies to the predominant position in their spirit's basic structure.

In the human species, the etheric body is fully evolved by the age of six to eight years.
At that point, the qualitative barrier opens between the physical and astral planes, and

astral body development begins.

People sometimes wonder if, right from the moment of birth, a baby seems to have a
certain character and temperament. This is absolutely true and represents no
inconsistency whatsoever. At the moment of conception a spirit arrives already
possessing a fundamental qualitative structure, which the child's behavior reflects from
the very first days of its life.

The spirit's fundamental structure represents merely a certain point in the
development it has reached within a given physical body. That is why the spirit's
potential for active development can unfold only when it inhabits a physical body. Let
us now explore two types of basic spiritual structure:

a) When the etheric body occupies the dominant position.

b) When the astral body occupies the dominant position.

A review of these two bodies and their effect upon human structure reveals the
following:

The human etheric body mediates an individual's physical strength and activity,
including sexual. That is precisely why adolescents, ranging in age from 16 to 20 years,
display heightened sexual activity – the so-called “oversexed” stage. At that age, the

higher astral body is not yet complete, and the lower astral body happens to be
developed to a much greater degree – a condition that manifests in a gamut of negative
emotions, including aggressiveness, sadism, etc.

The human astral body generally reflects its owner's emotional status. In its lower
form it consists of only one type of primary matter, G, and manifests a broad spectrum
of negative emotions – a state of spiritual impoverishment. A fully-developed astral

body, lower and higher, composed of two types of primary matter, G and F, reflects
positive emotions – a more evolved spirituality.

Thus, when the etheric body is dominant in the spiritual foundation and the astral body
is completely developed, an individual displays a sanguine type of temperament (see
F Fi ig g. . 1 11 10 0).

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