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The Goddess Sekhmet
The Way of the Five Bodies
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Way of the 5 Bodies
The Sekhmet Project
Robert Masters
-- Neurospeak
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AUFU:
THE "PHYSICAL BODY" The AUFU, as mentioned, is the "physical body" with its muscles and bones, blood and internal organs, glandular and nervous systems -- the body that anatomists and physiologists describe. Of itself it is a mechanical thing, a machine which for all its awesome potentials is propelled by mechanical functions, instincts, biological drives, sensations, and a limited number of learned responses and behaviors. It is operated by the brain and nervous systems and for it to exist and be alive only minimal brain functions and a brain of very small size would be required. This body is "human" only by virtue of its unnecessarily large and, for it, quite superfluously complex brain- and, of course, its links with the four subtler bodies and soul. The AUFU lacks consciousness in any higher sense of the word and its functioning is meaningful only to the mind of the KA which (without special re-education) misinterprets it as its own behaviors, thoughts and feelings. The AUFU can sense, and it feels pain and pleasure, but its sensing and feeling are so distorted by the KA, which transmutes them into its own images, that their actuality is rarely any major portion of the contents of consciousness. The AUFU is thus falsified by the KA, which in turn is misled into thinking that it freely governs the "voluntary" functions and actions of the AUFU. This situation can be remedied only if by appropriate and strenuous means the KA is taught to differentiate itself from the AUFU and also attains to a sufficiently accurate sensing, internal as well as surface, of the physical body. All of the subtler bodies, and their minds, have powerful effects upon the AUFU. Their experiences can affect every part of it and those experiences, when very vivid or prolonged, are not distinguished by the brain from the realities of its own world. The brain then brings about changes in parts and functions of the body as if these were responses to the body's own experiences. The HAIDIT, or Shadow, is the only subtle body-mind which naturally possesses a good contact with and knowledge of the AUFU -- meaning it can positively or negatively affect the physical body with equal facility. The KA once had such contact and capacity, but it has long since been lost. The Shadow can be understood as being roughly what is usually meant by "the unconscious," and appeals can be made to it to alter the AUFU along desired lines. An example of this would be to hypnotize the KA, so establishing contact with the HAIDIT, and then suggest to it that it utilize its special knowledge and relation to the body to, say, dispose of a wart or a tumor, or to increase or decrease blood flow to a particular part. Most effective hypnosis is a dialogue between the hypnotist and the Shadow, aimed at achieving certain changes in the AUFU, the KA, or the HAIDIT itself. The mindless AUFU cannot effectively survive in the contemporary world and must minimally be tended and cared for by the KA or, if the personal KA is too feeble or deranged, by other persons. However, although it is a machine, even the most ordinary of these has unused potentials which are enormous and far in excess of what can be made use of by even the most developed and most knowledgeable person. Since it is essential to the life of the whole person, reason would dictate that h be well cared for and efforts made to use it well. However, the KA and the HAIDIT frequently behave towards it as if the AUFU were their mortal enemy; also as if it were unworthy of being brought into the kind of awareness that would allow its potentials to be much better used. The AUFU, especially its brain, is the essential foundation upon which rests the structure of the whole person, whatever his or her powers may be. Yet it is always in varying degrees badly fed, poorly exercised, little known, and inadequately used while, at the same time, it is subjected to abuses which, if done to someone else, would constitute torture and deliberate destruction. No human being can be found who dies a natural death in the sense that his body parts wear out uniformly. The man who dies "naturally" is self-destroyed, killing himself by means of (barely) conscious behaviors which are largely products of unconscious processes and nonhuman forces. The ancient Egyptians, as depicted in their paintings and sculptures, are the only known civilized people displaying an adequate knowledge of and regard for the healthy and well-functioning physical body. The bodies they almost universally depict are graceful and light, well-positioned in gravity, able to make use of directed energies which give access to strength in the absence of excessive muscular development. Obviously, the body image is intact, awareness of body mechanics is present, and mind and body are in harmonious, mutually supportive interaction. Already with the Greeks, and in the ancient Far East, although to a lesser degree, art tells us that some of these elements have been lost or were never present in the first place. With the Egyptians, AUFU and KA are differentiated in awareness, integrated in function. Moreover, with them, the HAIDIT was in a superior, though far from perfected, relation to both AUFU and KA. Add to this the knowledge and awareness of some persons of the higher subtle bodies as well, making interaction with the Neters, and one uncovers basic secrets as to why the Egyptian civilization lasted so long and produced much that even today is unrivalled. The AUFU is a machine operated by its brain under the influence of the subtle bodies and their minds, but it is also a machine with a brain that is influenced from within its own and subtle bodies by the nonhuman forces of Cosmos and Chaos. These entities are "in" all of the bodies, although as the bodies become more subtle they tend to be less congenial to Chaos and more congenial to Cosmos. At the levels of AUFU and KA, however, the chaotic entities preponderate unless they have been exorcised or those bodies "seeded" with a greater number of their cosmic antagonists- magico-spiritual operations which are a part of the Work on Oneself at the conscious KHU and SAHU levels. In the HAIDIT, the antagonistic forces are, in most persons, better balanced -- so that it is the arena of the greatest conflict. This is the "middle ground" and on the "higher ground" of KHU and SAHU the balance shifts towards Order. Because of the potency of the demons in the "gross" AUFU it always sickens and dies much earlier than it might do otherwise. Even conscious Work by the KHU and the SAHU can only delay for a time this outcome. For the same reason -- demonic dominance -- the KA, which survives the AUFU, rather quickly degenerates. The Egyptians labored mightily to prevent this degeneration of the KA, but their efforts could at best delay it. Chaos, in the AUFU, works incessantly to achieve its debilitation and death, which Cosmos opposes. So long as humans remain at the level of the mechanical AUFU and sleep-walking KA, just so long will they remain destructive to themselves and to both their "subjective" and "objective" realities. To "awaken" -- a major goal of every magical, spiritual, or magico-spiritual system-is to break through and out of that level of nonawareness at which one's life is determined through the body's misuse by the unconscious. Even awareness and intelligent use of AUFU, KA and HAIDIT would effect the most remarkable positive changes in humankind. The fulfillment of humanity's potential, however, implies an aware participation also by KHU and SAHU bodies integrated with the others.
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