Course XLI - Teaching 16: Flowers of Ether

Amazed, a clairvoyant sees on the aura, or seventh sub-plane of the astral world, the Ethereal Wheels like very beautiful flowers opening their corollas to the stimulating light of spiritual development. During millennia, Yogis call them “Lotus Flowers”. Christian Mystics and Rosicrucian call them “Roses”, and Dante Alighieri calls the Vision of God –image of the Crown Center– “Candid Rose”.
But these Ethereal Flowers not always have wonderful and multiple colors, because they go out and become dark and repulsive under instinctive impulses of inferiority.
Good and evil, or pairs of opposites determining these changes, have influence on the beauty or ugliness of the Ethereal Flowers just by changing the vibrational movement. A movement fostering good produces a vortex from left to right and a contrary impulse, and vice versa.
The Soul of the World, which is the Divine Mother manifesting her activity, besides her creative manifestation has her destructive reflection; the two work on the human being through the biorhythm of the Wheels.
When the light of the Mother illuminates, good reigns supreme, and perfection and spiritual life are a fact, and the Ethereal Wheels flutter and eventually become synthetic and fuse with light itself; but when the reflection of the Mother produces shadow, then evil, suffering and death prevail, and the Wheels become condensed and eventually are victimized by the deadly shadow that devastates the individual being.
The knowledge of Ethereal Wheels and their use is a double-edged weapon because the Mother and the Black Lady become together good and evil, and light and shadow of the soul.
When the Ethereal Wheels sparkle to the utmost, their diameter is 678 inches (17,22 meters); when their rest, their diameter is 225 inches (5,74 meters); and when they are atrophied, their diameter is 25 inches (0,62 centimeters).
In precedent cases, the Crown Wheel’s measure is seven times bigger respectively.
The Sacrum Wheel is particularly composed of earthly matter and, as we said, in direct communication with the matrix of Earth or concentric globe of terrestrial fire.
The Splenic Wheel is composed of watery matters and spreads through the whole body earthly vitality coming from the Sacrum Wheel, and solar vitality coming from the Sun Wheel.
The Solar Wheel contains fiery matter absorbed from the Center of Sun Life.
The Heart Wheel is composed of material Ether, which could be called Electric Prana.
The Larynx Wheel is only composed of mental matter; this is why it distributes all energy, and becomes a bridge between mind and matter, –third Person of the Most Holy Trinity.
The Sight Wheel is only composed of mental substance transmitted to the Larynx Wheel and reflected on the Crown Wheel.
The Crown Wheel receives the Spiritual Energy.
The Crown Wheel pours its forces on the Sight Wheel; the Sight Wheel on the Larynx Wheel; the Larynx Wheel on the Sun Wheel; the Sun Wheel on the Sacrum Wheel; the Sacrum Wheel on the Splenic Wheel; and the Splenic Wheel on the Heart Wheel.
Besides the above-mentioned communications, the Larynx Wheel remains in touch with four lower Wheels through special ducts.
But the emanation center of forces that will illuminate all of them is in the Sacrum Wheel, in the Holy Triangle, where the Cosmic Ether, the shining Kundalini, is hidden as a precious treasure.