CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN BEING 33 and the sentient-soul on the other, there inserts itself another distinct member of the human constitution . This is the SOUL-BODY, or sentient body . (It is called in theosophical literature "astral shape," or "Kama Rupa ;" "Rupa" signifies form or shape .) One can also say : a part of the ether-body is finer than the rest, and this finer part of the ether-body forms a unity with the SENTIENT-SOUL, whereas the coarser part forms a kind of unity with the physical body. Nevertheless, the sentientsoul extends, as has been said, beyond the soulbody . What is here called sensation is only a part of the soul being . (The expression sentientsoul is chosen for the sake of simplicity .) Connected with sensations are the feelings of desire and aversion, impulses, instincts, passions . All this bears the same character of individualized life as do the sensations, and is, like them, dependent on the corporality . Just as the sentient-soul enters into mutual action and reaction with the body, so does it also with thinking, with the spirit . Thought, among other things, is of immediate service to it. Man forms thoughts about his sensations .
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