THE ASTRAL PLANE ITS OCCUPANTS, SCENERY & PHENOMENA
Reference to the astral plane, or Kāmaloka as it is called in Sanskrit, has frequently been made by Theosophical writers, and a good deal of information on the subject of this realm of nature is to be found scattered here and there in our books; but there is not, so far as I am aware, any single volume to which one can turn for a complete summary of the facts at present known to us about this interesting region.
The object of this manual is to collect and make some attempt to arrange this scattered information, and also to supplement it slightly in cases where new facts have come to our knowledge. It must be understood that any such additions are only the result of the investigations of a few explorers, and must not, therefore, be taken as in any way authoritative, but are given simply for what they are worth.
On the other hand every precaution in our power has been taken to ensure accuracy, no fact, old or new, being admitted to this manual unless it has been confirmed by the testimony of at least two independent trained investigators among ourselves, and has also been passed as correct by older students whose knowledge on these points is necessarily much greater than ours.
It is hoped, therefore, that this account of the astral plane, though it cannot be considered as quite complete, may yet be found reliable as far as it goes.
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Contents
Introduction
Scenery
The Seven Subdivisions
Degrees of Materiality
Characteristics of Astral Vision
The Aura
The Etheric Double
Power of Magnifying Minute Objects
The "Summerland"
Records of the Astral Light
Inhabitants
I. Human
(1) Living:
The Adept or Chela in Māyāvirūpa
The Psychically Developed Person
The Ordinary Person in Astral Body
The Black Magician.
(2) Dead:
The Nirmānakāya
The Chela awaiting Reincarnation
The Ordinary Person after Death
The Shade
The Shell
The Vitalized Shell
The Suicide
The Victim of Sudden Death
The Vampire
The Werewolf
The Black Magician after Death
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II. Non-human:
The Elemental Essence
The Kāmarūpas of Animals
Various Classes of Nature-Spirits, commonly called fairies
Kāmadevas
Rūpadevas
Arūpadevas
The Devarājahs
III. Artificial:
Elementals formed Unconsciously
Guardian Angels
Elementals formed Consciously
Human Artificials
The True Origin of Spiritualism
Phenomena
Churchyard Ghosts
Apparitions of the Dying
Haunted Localities
Family Ghosts
Bell-ringing, Stone-throwing, etc.
Fairies
Communicating Entities
Astral Resources
Clairvoyance
Prevision
Second-Sight
Astral Forces
Etheric Currents
Etheric Pressure
Latent Energy
Sympathetic Vibration
Mantras
Disintegration
Materialization
Why Darkness is required at a Séance
Spirit Photographs
Reduplication
Precipitation of Letters and Pictures
Slate-writing
Levitation
Spirit Lights
Handling Fire
Transmutation—Repercussion
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