“The chakras in common and ordinary people are only the senses of their animal soul [nephesh]. Their chakras are intimately related with the psychic-biological functions of their human organism. “The tattvas [subtle vibrations] enter through the chakras and then into our endocrine glands; the endocrine glands then transform the tattvas into hormones. So, the Astral chakras are the gates of entry for the tattvas. However when the Astral body is Christified by means of the third degree of the power of fire, then the seven chakras are transformed into the seven churches to which the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) refers... “Without the third degree of the power of the fire, the chakras are just senses of the animal soul [nephesh]. Therefore, whosoever is only concerned with the development of the chakras, without working for their Christification, transforms themselves into black magicians.”
—Samael Aun Weor, The Seven Words