He has a mind-body of Original Substance permeating a physical body; and the functioning of his physical body is determined by the FAITH of his mind-body.
You do not direct your will upon your physical body or try to compel the proper performance of internal function by will power.
You have a mind-body and a physical body; the mind-body takes form just as you think of yourself, and any thought which you hold continuously is made visible by the transformation of the physical body into its image.
For these reasons it appears to me that our self-recognition in a physical body is a necessary step in our growth.
I will therefore pass on to a class of examples which show that very curious phenomena can take place without the physical body being on the spot.
Can any one at all familiar with the laws and phenomena of the land Behind the Veil, suppose that a physical body could or would pass on to the planes in which the ordinary forms of matter do not exist?
If not, why the necessity of a physical body at all, in the future life?
The Fathers[106] with great zeal insist that the physical Body of Christ in the Eucharist, being one in all the receivers, is a principle of unity of Christ's mystical Body.
Take an instance of the first statement, that is, the presence of Christ's physical Body, in St. Chrysostom.
There in the other chair was my physical body, and in this one I sat, a disembodied spirit!
My physical body, I must confess, betrayed no evidence of shame at the exposure; and before Geraldine, too!
Doubtless, in some cases, it is assumed to be such a person's physical body as it feels itself conscious of sensation and is aware of space and time.
Thus the scribe understood that to go to Manannan's world literally meant entering a sleep or trance state, or, what is equivalent in the case of the maiden whom Manannan summoned, the passage through death from the physical body.
The life of a physical body is one of perpetual change and in order that it shall live, it needs constantly to be supplied from three distinct sources.
The Devas of the manasic world use normally the manasic body, and create the kamic or physical body as they may want a temporary vehicle.
The being functioning as man, while spiritual, intellectual and emotional, uses a physical body, in order to carry on the activities connected with the physical world.
Even though, during sleep, it is out of the physical body with the astral body it nevertheless remains closely connected with the physical body; for the activity of the astral body is directed toward the physical body.
These senses and this intellect can apprehend only a part of all that which occult science unveils as the total human entity, and this part is the physical body.
Observation of the nature of solid matter has led atomistic thought to regard a physical body as a heap of molecules so far apart that by far the greater part of the volume occupied by the body is just 'empty' space.
For a physical body is always in some thermal state which may be regarded as higher than another, and it may therefore be regarded as being at all times thermally expanded to some extent.
The desires, in purgatory, cannot be satisfied, because there is no physical body to express them, and this causes a state of suffering which has been compared to a burning fire.
It is hardly necessary to add to that definition that He is one who is always in possession of a physical body; it is implied in the very description I have been giving.
He cannot use the whole of His vast consciousness within the limitations of a physical brain and a physical body.
The purpose is to gratify desires that have outlived the physical body.
But from the astral viewpoint it is a departure and therefore is as logically a "death" there as departure from a physical body is here.
Even from the astral plane the ego may keenly feel the horror of functioning for a lifetime through such a physical body, as one here would feel the anguish of incarceration in a dungeon.
He digests and assimilates his experiences and the gist is stored in the causal body and its growth includes an actual increase in size, just as in the case of the child's physical body.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "physical body" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
