Understanding Force Centers and the Causal Body in Mystical Experience

When mental matter becomes active through a particular creative power, it organizes and forms like galaxies or fundamental centers of gravity in this abstract mental matter called force centers. FORCE CENTERS When Consciousness awakens, together with Will which is the first manifestation of Consciousness, then this matter that until that moment was inactive in the Causal body begins to become active and organizes itself by structuring epicenters of consciousness that are called Force Centers. Since this Causal Body has these receptive properties, these epicenters of consciousness also constitute receptive points and therefore are called spiritual senses through which consciousness relates on this plane. FORCE CENTERS: are the spiritual senses through which the I receives spiritual impressions. In the Causal Body there are force centers, the main ones of which number seven, corresponding to analogous centers in the impermanent gross bodies, such as the mental, emotional, etheric and physical, known by the names of Causal Centers, mental Centers, astral Centers (or emotional), etheric Centers and nerve plexuses and internal secretion glands when it comes to the physical body. BODY OF ECSTASY: The Causal body is also called the body of ecstasy because it is that body through which, once brought into activity, mystics and ecstatics have the vision of God. Already from this consideration some things are understood. The body with which the mystic has the vision of God is a body that in the first place is without form, because it is of abstract mental nature, so the vision of God by the mystic is a vision that first of all is intellectual. Then these intuitions and intellectual visions can be clothed with images, emotions, sensations, etc... but in reality they are independent from them and the vision of God is superior to them. FORCE CENTERS AND VISION OF GOD: we have said that the vision of God and mystical experiences occur through this causal or ecstatic body and the psychic organs through which the divine vision occurs are those called by the Eastern tradition Chakras or force centers or Centers of Consciousness. These are centers of consciousness that the individual can purify to such an extent as to make them capable of contemplating Divine consciousness. Each Force center corresponds to a divine virtue and a corresponding human virtue with which man can unite with God. The main ones are 12 although the Indian tradition transmits 7 as fundamental and each of these force centers corresponds to a particular vision of God that the mystic can have: Coronal: Kether - Union with God Frontal: Hochmah - The vision of God face to face Throat: Binah - Vision of Sorrow Right hand: Chesed - Vision of Love Left hand-Navel Center: Gheburah - Vision of Power Heart: Tiepheret - Vision of the Harmony of things. Mysteries of the Crucifixion Right Foot: Netzah - Vision of triumphant beauty Left Foot: Hod - Vision of Splendor Genital: Yesod - Vision of the mechanism of the Universe Basal: Malchut - Vision of the Guardian Angel However, as you can see from these images, not everyone has developed all the centers of this causal body... as is evident from the fact that the psychic characteristics and virtues corresponding to these centers are rarely present in our life. These centers are indeed currently latent in the individual and in the causal body which, as we said previously, is very similar to an empty bubble. Only with certain meditative techniques and particular ascetic solutions is it possible to awaken these centers and then subsequently proceed in their development. Important elements to remember: 1. The causal body has various states of functioning: generally it is more or less inactive depending on the individual's ability to relate to the mind and abstract principles 2. At the same time, the force centers are latent as long as the body is inactive and therefore the effects are partial 3. When there is an awakening of consciousness and will, this body becomes dynamized, these force centers blossom and are awakened, opening and organizing the mental structure of the individual 4. If the awakening of consciousness is attuned to divine consciousness, then these centers are attuned with the Divine Centers, of Christ, of the ideal Man and can give rise to experiences of a mystical character 5. Since they are in the causal body, the germs of these centers cause reflections in all the bodies that gradually become better structured. A premature awakening of lower centers is possible, but temporary or inappropriate. This is important especially in meditation because it is one thing if through meditation one operates a change and an awakening or development of a causal center, which will only subsequently bring a modification in the other bodies, and another thing is to operate on centers of the etheric or astral bodies. For example, operating an awakening of the third eye or the etheric frontal center can make one gain temporary charisms but not necessarily cause an inner evolution. This is important especially in modern times.