| Physiology and Metaphysiology of the Heart |
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The heart is not a simple pump of the blood, regulated by the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system which produces opposite effects on the cardiac activity (contraction and relaxation): the heart is the center of gravity of the Emotive Soul , that which Moses and the Kabbalah call Ruah, and Saint Paul, psichè.
The Emotive Soul, as we have said in our Dizionario Enciclopedico di Archeosofia, p. 7, is rational, governing the feelings, the imagination, the moral, the memory and the passion. In us, it is the conscious part, that which thinks, reasons, which generates voluntary acts, which gives to our existence a responsible and personal character. It is made of primordial intelligible matter , and is welded to the Spirit and to the Erosdynamic Soul. In the perfect Initiate, in the Saint, it obeys the spirit and the attraction of God and of the Light; instead, in the sinner it draws away from God and obeys the erosdynamic soul, the Devil and the darkness. Whoever subjugates the heart has the dominion over the Spirit and the Eros . The heart is a muscle provided with an autonomous nervous center, but its functionality is linked also to other nerve paths which receive and transmit energies. There are nerve fibres which control the heart, the lungs and the aorta. The principal regulator of these is the Vagus, which has its center in the medulla oblongata. Whoever is able to master the Vagus, with the help of the heart and the lungs, becomes master of the entire body, of the energetic bodies and of the Ego. The heart regulates the circulation of the blood and the pulmonary activity, but the lungs regulate the activity of the heart and of the blood circulation. It is not by chance that the Archeosophical Ascetics perform the meditation on the heart, forcing the lungs to work following certain rhythms which help the cardio-circulatory and biological conditions, with the aim of entering in the best psycho-biological state for the Illumination in the Emotive Soul. excerpt from "BRIEF CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PHYSIOLOGY AND METAPHYSIOLOGY OF THE HEART" from the 11th Booklet |
