User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 364: Tartarus Arc, Part 1: Immorality and Sinners, Predictions./@comment-1693281-20131206165948/@comment-7418318-20131206174730

Come to think of it, it wasn't Jellal, but his thought projection Siegrain who was on the council.

That makes it rather unlikely that Jellal would be one of the three body-link magic receptibles, since there was no body present at the council building to link the magic to. Unless that was somehow linked with the magic he put into his projection and joined with him when he re-absorbed his magic. But that'd be an overly complicated thing to do...