Bodies

The centre of the soul's being, the True Self, 

is above the lower nature, and enthroned in the causal-body (throne)
where It is within the atmic-buddhic truth (the Garden).
The Self is begotten in Buddhi which ensouls the causal body (the Divine City).
-G. A. Gaskell

The "Body"must be taken to mean the astral body of desire;
the "Mind" the mental-body;
and the "Heart" the causal-body,
"and the shrine of the Spirit of the man."
The "Perfect Man" is the Archetypal Man.
-G.A. Gaskell

The whole of our life in the present incarnation
is contained in the etheric body.
-Rudolf Steiner

The goal of evolution is to reach the point
at which each of the higher bodies incarnates
in the corresponding lower body.
Only then will human beings receive full illumination,
because divine nature will then dwell within them.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

The Lankavatra Sutra
points out that by concentrating
the thoughts or energies of the mental body
one can fly and be born in heaven.

Concentrating the desires or energies of the astral body,
it seems, causes one to fall.
-David Tansley

When the mind is saturated
with Bliss, Wisdom and Love of the Higher Consciousness states,
it automatically transforms your astral body
into a positive, radiant and happy emotional state.
-Imre Vallyon