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<p class="paracenter">BODY, THE OCCULT AGENT
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<p class="para"> The
body has an individuality of its own.
It 
is an organised formation and acts as a 
whole in each and all its parts. The human body is, par excellence, such a 
formation; for it is moved and controlled by the consciousness which overshadows 
or informs it, which is its master whose will 
it 
executes scrupulously. 
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<p class="para"> The body is an epitome of the 
world. It encases within its frame the whole world, particularly the earth—earth 
itself being an epitome of the world— on a miniature scale, the <i>mikros </i>
reproducing all the features and characters of the <i>makros.</i>
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<p class="para"> Such being the case, a wholly 
conscious body governed and inspired by the supreme Consciousness lives and 
moves in the cosmic rhythm: not only does it register in itself the world 
happenings, but also possesses an active power to control and even to change 
those happenings by its individual movement. We may imagine the body to be a 
kind of map or chart of the earth. Each spot on the earth is represented by a 
particular spot—a certain group of cells, for example—in the body. If the 
consciousness ruling the body concentrates itself upon that point and
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<p class="para">induces a change there, a corresponding change can be brought 
about automatically on a larger scale in the part and conditions of the earth 
with which it is connected. Thus without going out and moving about, without 
being the &quot;man on the spot&quot; to know things &quot;at first hand&quot;, one can, sitting, in 
his room, by switching on a key, as it were, in one corner of the body, set in 
movement a whole process of happenings in a particular region of the earth. By a 
conscious re-disposition of a few cells in your body, you can bring about a 
desired change in world circumstances. The body is thus a control room for the 
consciousness in respect of happenings upon earth. Naturally, any body cannot do 
that, but only a body destined and trained for that purpose.
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<p class="para"> A body, in this way, becomes the 
instrument, a lever for producing mighty changes and creations upon earth. This 
conception of the occult potency of the body is at the basis of the rite or 
institution of sacrifice that was a characteristic feature of the old-world 
society. Iphigenia was offered as a victim to avert the wrath of the gods and 
bring victory to the Greeks. Sometimes an animal replaced the human victim and 
served the same purpose and in the same way. And in a higher sense—indeed in the 
highest sense—a body can sacrifice itself in such a way— wholly and 
integrally—as to bring about a corresponding
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<p class="para">integral reversal or revaluation in the physical world. A human 
being that makes of himself a holocaust—burns himself out at the altar of the 
Divine —keeping nothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by 
calling down the divine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a 
divine presence and transformation. A total physical sacrifice results 
inevitably into a total expression and embodiment of the Divine in the physical 
world.
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