In the human organism there is a thermo-electrical magnetic body. This is the vital body. This body is the seat of organic life. No organism could live without the vital body. Each atom of the vital body, enters into each atom of the physical body, to make it vibrate intensely. All chemical, physiological, and biological phenomena, all phenomena of perception, all metabolic processes,, all action of calories etc. have their basis in the vital body. In fact, this body is the superior section of the physical body, the TETRA DIMENSIONAL BODY. In the last instant of life, this body escapes from the physical organism. The vital body does not enter the grave. The vital body floats near the grave and disintegrates slowly as the corpse disintegrates. Only the corpse and the personality of the dead man go to the grave.
The vital body has more reality than the physical body. We know very well that the physical body changes totally every seven years and not a single old atom remains in the body. But the vital body does not change. Contained in this body are all the atoms of childhood, adolescence, youth, maturity, old age, and decrepitude. The physical body belongs to the world of three dimensions. The vital body is the body of the fourth dimension.
SAMAEL AUN WEOR
