Theosophical Planes

Since my last post on vehicles of consciousness, I came across some new information on the seven planes described by theosophists. There was no chart that listed all seven in one place in Man and His Bodies, so I had to do some guesswork to construct the one that I offered in the previous post.

That list turned out to be incorrect on several counts. For example, I had listed a separate causal plane, above the mental plane, as the realm of the causal body. It appears that the causal plane concept comes from a later reinterpretation (one of many) of the seven planes of consciousness, where it's located between the astral and mental planes and is supposed to be the source of information about our past lives.

I've gone ahead and made the necessary corrections in the previous post. If you're interested, here's the website where I found the complete list. Scroll down and you'll also find material on the seven subplanes of the astral and mental planes, each of which becomes an afterdeath destination for souls at particular levels of spiritual development.