Category: Religion/Spirituality

The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena

_Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. Some have complained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical, a...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

_Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand for a simple exposition of Theoso...

2. Chapter 2

Though the kâmic aura from the brilliancy of its flashes of colour may often be more conspicuous, the nerve-ether and the etheric double are really of a much denser order of mat...

3. Chapter 3

Needless to say, this class is millions of times larger than those of which we have spoken, and the character and condition of its members vary within extremely wide limits. Wit...

4. Chapter 4

There is also another variety of corpse which it is necessary to mention under this head, though it belongs to a much earlier stage of man's _post-mortem_ history. It has been s...

5. Chapter 5

To speak, as we so often do, of _an_ elemental in connection with the group we are now considering is somewhat misleading, for strictly speaking there is no such thing. What we...

6. Chapter 6

We might almost look upon the nature-spirits as a kind of astral humanity, but for the fact that none of them--not even the highest possess a permanent reincarnating individuali...

7. Chapter 7

A very curious and instructive instance of the extreme persistence of these artificial elementals under favourable circumstances came under the notice of one of our investigator...

8. Chapter 8

To the same entities must be attributed a large portion of what are called physical phenomena at spiritualistic _séances_--indeed, many a _séance_ has been given entirely by the...

9. Chapter 9

Most of the occurrences of the _séance_-room have now been referred to, but there are one or two of the rarer phenomena of the outer world which must not be left quite without m...