Kāma rūpa

Astral body — desire (3)

The astral body, the vehicle of desire and emotion. Leadbeater's Man Visible and Invisible illustrates the kāma rūpa with vivid colour plates: clear hues for refined emotion, muddy clouds for coarse desire. Kāma rūpa survives the death of the physical and persists in the astral plane (Theosophy's kāmaloka) until its emotional content is exhausted, after which it too dissolves and the consciousness withdraws to the higher principles.

Sthūla śarīraLiṅga śarīraKāma rūpaKāma rūpaLower manasHigher manasBuddhiĀtman

Point 3 of 7 in Theosophy — Seven Subtle Bodies

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Sources

Leadbeater, Man Visible and Invisible (primary_canonical)

Leadbeater, Man Visible and Invisible (1902), ch. I and its opening plates, presents the desire/emotional vehicle through clairvoyant colour plates and explanatory descriptions; the work is an iconographic witness for kama-rupa, not a claim of physical anatomy.

A.E. Powell, The Astral Body (secondary)

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