THE ASTRAL BODY ACCORDING TO THE INCAS

Bible teachings enable us to become aware that CHRIST must be born within. There is a distinction between the CHRIST which is born within us, our true saviour, and the cosmic CHRIST, the Christ without. This cosmic Christ helps us in the task of having Christ born within; however, it is our task to form the Christ within, the 'soul body" which is the vehicle humanity will need to live in the New Jerusalem.
The same concept was shared by the INCAS. They believed in the "astral body"or "soul body" because of the ability it conferred upon the one who has it to traverse the 'starry" regions.
The soul body was considered the 'living stone." In a similar way, it is regarded in the Bible as  the "wedding garment" that Christ speaks of in the Gospel of Matthew, also the "soul body" that Paul mentions in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, or the "diamond soul" spoken in some of the ancient philosophies.
The INCAS understood the concept of the threefold Spirit, the threefold Body and the threefold Soul.
The threefold Spirit were known as : -the "Divine Spirit" aspect;  -the "Life Spirit" aspect; - the "Human Spirit"  aspect.
The threefold body consisted of : -a "Dense Body," which is visible;  -a "Vital Body," which was made of ether, it was the vital instrument for specializing the energy of the sun and manifested as a brilliant light surrounding our visible body;  -a "Desire Body," which was the emotional nature. It was also manifested as a type of energy emanating from our physical body in a manner different than the Vital Body.
The threefold Soul consisted of : - the "Conscious Soul," extracted from the Dense Body, which was emanated from the Divine Spirit aspect;   - the "Intellectual Soul," extracted from the Vital Body which was emanated from the Life Spirit aspect;  - the "Emotional Soul," extracted from the desire Body which was emanated from the Human Spirit aspect.
In the Book of Daniel, we can observe how the Assyrian king is trying to control all these regions using only selected beings able to travel through the places in which they were not able to do so, since the chosen ones were trained to do so in a very meticulous way by the "Creator."