Editing Subtle body (section)

=== Fourth Way ===
Subtle bodies are found in the "[[Fourth Way]]" teachings of [[Gurdjieff]] and [[Ouspensky]], who write that one can create a subtle body, and hence achieve post-mortem immortality, through spiritual or yogic exercises. The "soul" in these systems is not something one is born with, but developed through esoteric practice to acquire complete understanding and to perfect the self. According to the historian Bernice Rosenthal, "In Gurdjieff's cosmology our nature is tripartite and is composed of the physical (planetary), emotional (astral) and mental (spiritual) bodies; in each person one of these three bodies ultimately achieves dominance."<ref name="Rosenthal 1997"/> The "divine body" represents a fourth way, and the ultimate task of the teachings is to harmoniously develop the four ways into a single way.<ref name="Rosenthal 1997">{{cite book | last=Rosenthal | first=Bernice | title=The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture | publisher=Cornell University Press | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-8014-8331-8 | oclc=35990156 | page=[https://archive.org/details/occultinrussians00unse/page/361 361] | url=https://archive.org/details/occultinrussians00unse/page/361 }}</ref>