My comments on the Physical Emotional Body

The Physical Emotional body (or Physical Emotional psyche), is the source of selfish feelings and emotions, physical likes and dislikes, and lower sensual enjoyment.  This is the "Physical Vital" of Sri Aurobindo's Integral psychology.  It is called the Emotional body because it represents an actual "body" or principle (usually represented in terms of an aura) that extends beyond the physical body.  The emotional consciousness descends into the physical Emotional consciousness, and from there into the chthonic Subconsciousness.

Plato referred to this principle (or it's equivalent) as the epithymia or lower appetites, and associated it with the belly, or in other words the navel chakra (contrast with Barbara Brennan's genital chakra association for the emotional body).

Whereas the Etheric body is usually described by clairvoyants as being of a uniform grey, blueish, or violet colour, and consists of a matrix or network of lines of force (the nadis, previously referred to), the Emotional body as described here is said to full of amorphous or ever-changing swirls of colour [figure at top of page], the colours (and sometimes the shapes as well) representing the predominant emotional characteristic of that person.  This is also in keeping with the Theosophist Leadbeater's description of the aura and the - as he termed it - "Astral Body".  In this emotion-colour equation, an angry or agressive person, for example, will have a great deal of dirty red in his aura, an intellectual person a lot of yellow, a spiritual person blue or violet, and so on.  It is actually possible using a sort of intuitive imagination to sense these colours to some extent.  We even have them in everyday language "he saw red", "green with envy" etc.  Here we enter the realm of "thought-forms."

Christopher Hills and Barbara Brennan both describe the chakras of the Physical Emotional Body (for Chrisopher Hills these are the chakras as such, he does not specify bodies) as a rainbow sequence, with the Muladhara or base-chakra being red in colour, the Swadhisthana or (in this system) Navel chakra as orange, and so on through to the Sahasrara at the top of the head, which is violet or purple in colour.

The following table presents some associations and correspondences with the middle emotional body; some of which are quite close, others very distant and abstract only.

Some correspondences regarding the Lower Emotional Body

Philosophy/Worldview	Paradigmatic Approach	Term	Comments
Adyar Theosophy		Emotional / Astral Body	Especially the lower sublevels of the emotional body.
Rudolph Steiner		Consciousness Soul	Steiner sees this as a spiritual faculty, by which man can attune to the Christ Consciousness.  According to Steiner this is the evolutionary goal of the present "culture epoch".  This faculty also makes up the higher part of the "ego" or Self-Consciousness.
R. Beesley		The Astral Body	The first of the spiritual bodies, the first stage beyond the mundane.
Semnani (Latifa)		"Noah of your being"	The lower soul, seat of desires and uncontrolled passions - colour blue.
Hermetic Kabbalah Sefirot and Astrological Planet		Yesod / Moon alternatively - Water of Malkhut	Yesod is associated in Hermetic Kabbalah, with the Astral Plane. It could perhaps be better associated with the Middle Emotional Body.
C. G. Jung		Feeling faculty	One of the four ego-faculties - the opposite of Sensation. Not a subtle body as such
Da Free John		Second Stage of Life (Emotional-Sexual)	The development of the emotional, sexual, and social being (according to Da 7 to 14 years, this is at variance to Freud obviously!).
Ken Wilber		Uroboric, Image, Axial and Pranic, to some extent Membership	This is my own interpretation; Wilber is more conservative in his assesments. But in any case this constitutes stages of his Pre- arc.
Eric Jantsch		Phenotypes	This is the first stage in the development of the Neural Mind