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them and go further through the centre until attaining the Body of Enlightenment — the most subtle of the inner bodies. The inner bodies between the Paṭhama Magga Sphere and the Body of Enlightenment which are still subject to the Three Signs comprise: the Subtle Human Body, the Angelic Body, the Subtle Angelic Body, the Brahma Body, the subtle Brahmā Body, the Formless Brahma Body and the Subtle Formless Brahmā Body. All of these inner bodies are made up of the Five Aggregates [khandha] i.e. corporeality [rūpa], feeling [vedanā], sense-registration (perception) [saññā], mental formations [saṅkhāra], and consciousness [viññāṇa]. By contrast the Body of Enlightenment is not subject to the Three Signs because it is made not of mundane Aggregates but ‘Pure Aggregates’ [dhammakhandha]. Its corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness have been distilled to the point of purity. The Bodies of Enlightenment also come in several different forms depending on the degree of this purification, but they remain distinct from the mundane [lokiya] inner bodies by virtue of their Aggregates. The first Body of Enlightenment attained, which is the next body in sequence after the Subtle Formless Brahmā, is the Gotrabhū Body of Enlightenment [Dhammakāya Gotrabhū]. From there, in order of sequence, the Bodies of Enlightenment comprise the Subtle Gotrabhū Body of Enlightenment, the Sotāpana Body of Enlightenment [Dhammakāya Sotapana], the Subtle Sotāpana Body of Enlightenment, the Sakidāgāmi Body of Enlightenment [Dhammakāya Sakidāgāmi], the Subtle Sakidāgāmi Body of Enlightenment, the Anāgāmi Body of Enlightenment [Dhammakāya Anāgāmi], the Subtle Anāgāmi Body of Enlighten-