By Victor M Fontane
It was Helena Blavatsky in the late 19th century the person chosen to disclose the Septenarian Constitution to all mankind. And we mean "chosen" because beings of higher dimensions made it known.
Considering that humans had reached the required level of awareness, we were prepared to begin to understand this knowledge.
Helena Blavatsky was the reference for the Theosophical Society movement, an organization founded in 1875 that defends Theosophy as the basis of human and spiritual knowledge.
Theosophy is based on the combination of three fundamental pillars of knowledge: science, philosophy, and religion. Three pillars that together offer the possibility of achieving the knowledge of true reality.
It's true that science and religion have been at each other throughout history, but the current situation has changed. Science is no longer absolutist and is starting to hold the idea that there is something else.
On the other hand, humanity is beginning to understand that the most important thing about religions is that they all have the same origin and the same essence, and that the only thing that separates them is the manipulation that the human being himself has been able to make of each of them.
Humanity will take an evolutionary leap when it understands that science, philosophy and religion are the basis of human and spiritual knowledge..
The Septenarian Constitution of the Human Being is the seven fundamental components that give life to the human race, both those that form part of the physical and perishable plane, and those that form part in the almic and spiritual plane.
To understand the Septenarian Constitution it is first necessary to understand what we really are: souls living a human experience. In order for the soul to experience the physical plane we find ourselves in, it uses our body as a vehicle. But we're not that body or vehicle, we're the driver of that vehicle, we are the soul that drives it. Vehicle has an expiration date, soul doesn't.
The Septenary Principle refers to the primacy of number seven in the manifested cosmos. Number seven is prominent in many ancient traditions. For example, in Christianity there are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, seven deadly sins, the seven sacraments, the duty to forgive seventy times seven that Jesus indicted to Peter, among others. The Book of Revelation also has many septenaries. In Hinduism there are seven sages (Saptarishi), seven shaktis, seven chakras, seven lokas and talas, and many more. Other septenates in the Western antiquity are the seven classical planets, seven seas, seven sages of Greece, seven Kings and Emperors of Rome, seven hills of Istanbul and of Rome Seven Liberal Arts, Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
Humans have also classified aspects of the natural world in septenates, such as the seven days in the week, the seven colors in the rainbow, and the seven main musical notes.
In Theosophical teachings number seven is also prominent, there being seven eternities, seven rays, seven primordial beings, seven hierarchies of being, seven planes, seven principles, seven globes in a planetary chain, seven rounds of evolution, seven root-races and seven sub-races, etc.
Man according to the Theosophical teaching is a sevenfold being, or, in the usual phrase, has a septenary constitution. Putting it in another way, man’s nature has seven aspects, may be studied from seven different points of view, is composed of seven principles. The clearest and best way of all in which to think of man is to regard him as one, the Spirit or True Self; this belongs to the highest region of the universe, and is universal, the same for all; it is a ray of God, a spark from the divine fire. This is to become an individual, reflecting the divine perfection, a son that grows into the likeness of his father. For this purpose the Spirit, or true Self, is clothed in garment after garment, each garment belonging to a definite region of the universe, and enabling the Self to come into contact with that region, gain knowledge of it, and work in it. It thus gains experience, and all its latent potentialities are gradually drawn out into active powers. These garments, or sheaths, are distinguishable from each other both theoretically and practically. If a man be looked at clairvoyantly each is distinguishable by the eye, and they are separable each from each either during physical life or at death, according to the nature of any particular sheath. Whatever words may be used, the fact remains the same – that he is essentially sevenfold, an evolving being, part of whose nature has already been manifested, part remaining latent at present, so far as the vast majority of humankind is concerned. Man’s consciousness is able to function through as many of these aspects as have been already evolved in him into activity.
Seven principles in human beings with the Sanskrit names:
1. The Body . . . . . . . Rupa.
2. Vitality . . . . . . . . . Prana, or Jiva.
3. Astral Body. . . . . . Linga Sharira.
4. Animal Soul. . . . . . Kama Rupa.
5. Human Soul. . . . . . Manas.
6. Spiritual Soul. . . . . Buddhi.
7. Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . Atma.
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