THOUGHT OF THE MONTH

Let us consider this remarkable structure that is the human body. It can be  compared to a building, the framework being the skeletal system, which in  nature corresponds to the mineral realm and which, similarly, acts as material  support. The muscles are attached to the bones, in the same way that  vegetation  is attached to the ground. The circulatory system, with its arteries and blood  vessels, corresponds to the rivers, streams and lakes, because water is the  earth’s blood that nourishes all the vegetation. The respiratory system obviously  corresponds to air. And finally the nervous system, upon which the proper  functioning of the entire body depends, corresponds to fire, to the sun, which with its light and heat creates and sustains all life. It is not the bones that control our body, but the nervous system, which is the  most subtle and the most sophisticated. From this we can draw the conclusion  that it is not matter but spirit that we should consider the most important. That is the lesson the physical body teaches us.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov