The Angel-man had a material (manasic) body, but his energy life, and mind were spiritual.  The animal man had a prakritic body, with energy, life and mind that were material.

So far all was good.

The animal man has four bodies—­one of prakriti, one of ether, one of prana, and one of manasa.  It may be true, and probably is, that his manasic body is not sounding in chord with his prakritic body, but only with those atoms of it which are in his brain and nerves; but that is immaterial—­for future consideration.

The Angel man had but one body, of manasa, in which the spirit dwelt; but that body was identical in substance with the body that made the mind of the animal man.  His manasic body joined the manasic body of the animal man, joined with it by entering into the animal man’s mind, as easily as water from one glass is added to water in another glass, and the animal “man became a living soul,” endowed with speech, while the Angel-man was given “a skin coat.”

The prakritic body of the animal man was the result in prakriti of an etheric-pranic-manasic, or “astral” body, formed in accordance with the Universal Law.  For what he was by nature, he could not be blamed.  He stood naked and not ashamed before the Radiance.  He did not make his astral body; he was the mere translation of it into prakriti, as all other created things were, and that invisible astral self (figuratively) stood at his right hand, moulding and shaping him.

But when the Angel-man entered his mind, all this was changed.  He “knew Good from Evil.”  To his mind of manasa had been added the Spirit—­the Atma-Buddhi’s Consciousness of the three Spiritual planes.  He has become “as one of us,” said the Angel-men of the firmament, of Heaven.  He now held the seven planes and was a creator.  Each thought and desire that, when an animal only, fell harmless, now created on the pranic and etheric world.  Soon beside him, at his left hand (figuratively) there grew up a second etheric or astral body, that of his desires; and his prakritic body was no longer the product of the astral body on his right hand.  It was the joint product of the left-hand Kamic astral body he had created, and the right hand normal astral body.  He was no longer in harmony with the Radiance.  He could no longer face it.  He had created discord—­Sin.

The pretty legend of the two “Angels,” one on the right hand and one on the left, has its physical basis in this truth, but, of course, as a matter of actual fact, the normal and abnormal astral bodies are in mechanical union.  It is the Kamic self-made astral body that remains from one incarnation to another, producing in joint action with a new normal astral body, a new physical body for the Inner-Self, or Angel taking the pilgrimage through the lower world.

All the Angel-men did not enter the animal men on the pranic etheric-prakritic globes; only a few.  It was a pilgrimage through matter in which those who make it are meeting many adventures, but the legends are many, and have no place in the physics, although the legends are all founded on the facts of the physics.