The Subtle Body, Assembled

Etheric double, astral body, mental body, causal body, aura, planes and vehicles — a layered anatomy of the person assembled from Sanskrit terminology, Christian-Kabbalist structure and nineteenth-century talk of "vibrations" and "the ether".

The composite nobody notices is a composite. Each layer has a real ancestor somewhere; the stack is new. And the Kabbalah's own five-level soul — nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chayah, yechidah — is genuinely comparable and genuinely different, because it is a scale of how much of you is turned toward the source, not a set of nested containers. ⬡ the five souls is the honest comparison.