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a novel by Eric Melma |
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A harsh atmosphere pervaded in Avignon, whose
history started high on the cliff by the river. The
city, once the center of a Celtic tribe, hated
visitors. His grandfather used to talk about the
mercilessness of the Avignois, a long time ago. “In
Paris they argue, in Avignon they will stick a knife
in you,” he had said. Avignon was situated on the
well-known Via Agrippa, the main road between
Cologne, Lyon and Arles. In the Parc des Papes
Michel sat down on a park bench to calm his mind. He
concentrated on the old oaks in front of the
university, before his initiation into it. The
freshman had been having a lot of dreams lately and
sometimes he couldn’t tell his dreams from real life
anymore. He would have to find some technique to
create clarity in this. Maybe his astrology studies
would give him the aid he sought. After his small
indulgence in navel-gazing, he went to meet his
teachers and at their advice he moved into a small
room in the Rue St-Agricol, a little street not far
away. From that day on, he walked to the school
building every day, through the inner city. From the
Rocher des Doms he had been able to map out the city
quite well. The Rocher des Doms was the cliff that
stuck out above everything and from which the city
was easy to explore. Michel usually preferred to
saunter along the large boulevards, because there he
could ponder his studies better. He got along well
with a number of students, although they were soon
often jealous of the exceedingly intelligent young
man. At the esoteric school he gathered useful
knowledge for the first few months. He learned that
man possesses various bodies, a total of seven: the
physical, vital, astral and mental bodies and, at a
higher lever, the causal, buddhi and atma bodies. He
was taught that these represent seven levels of
consciousness and that the planets and stars are
also made up of them. All of these bodies are
connected to each other and are present in every
person, in at least a dormant form. The visible
material body is the crudest type. The vital body
holds the material together and provides the energy
required. The astral body is connected to the
emotions and reveals itself primarily in the dream
world. The mental body represents thinking and the
causal body only develops itself when thinking has
completely plumbed the depths of cause and effect.
Buddhi is understood to be the state where a person
truly awakens and atma is the breath of life, a
condition that is achieved when a someone becomes
One with the All-that-is and the individual aspect
is dissolved. It was an exciting theory, but there
were no practical examples. |
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