Quotes:Vehicle of Life

H. P. Blavatsky

Vehicle of Life. The “Septeriary” Man among the Pythagoreans, “number seven” among the profane. The former “explained it by saying, that the human body consisted of four principal elements (principles), and that the soul is triple (the higher triad)” . (See Isis Unveiled, Vol. II., p. 418, New York, 1877.) It has been often remarked that in the earlier works of the Theosophists no septenary division of man was mentioned. The above quotation is sufficient warrant that, although with every caution, the subject was more than once approached, and is not a new‐fangled theory or invention.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Vehicle of Life