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the physical body (during the life of the latter) by a thin silk-like, astral
thread, which maintains the communication between the two. Were this
cord to be severed the physical body would die, as the connection of the
soul with it would be terminated.
On this lower Astral Plane may also be perceived the auric colors of men, as
described in our Fourth Lesson. Likewise it is on this plane that the
emanations of thought may be observed by the clairvoyant vision, or the
astral of one who visits that plane in his astral body. The mind is continually
throwing off emanations, which extend some distance from the person, for a
time, and which then, if strong enough, gradually pass off, drawn here and
there by the corresponding thoughts of others. These thought emanations
resemble clouds, some delicate and beautiful, while others are dark and
murky. To the psychic or astral vision, places are seen to be filled with this
thought-stuff, varying in character and appearance with the quality and
nature of the original thought which produced them.
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Some places are seen to be filled with bright attractive thought-stuff
showing that the general character of the thought of those who inhabit it is
of an uplifting and cheerful character, while other places are filled with a
hazy, murky mass or cloud of thought-stuff, showing that those who live
there (or some visitors) have been dwelling on the lower planes of thought,
and have filled the place with depressing reminders of their sojourn there.
Such rooms should be opened wide to the sun, and air, and one moving
into them should endeavor to fill them with bright, cheerful and happy
thoughts, which will drive out the lower quality of thought-stuff. A mental
command, such as "I command you to move away from this place," will
cause one to throw out strong thought vibrations, which will either dissolve
the objectionable thought-stuff, or will cause it to be repelled and driven
away from the immediate vicinity of the person making the command.
If people could see but for a few minutes the thought-atmosphere of
groggeries, gambling-rooms, and places of that kind, they would not care to
again visit them. Not only is the atmosphere fairly saturated with degrading
thoughts, but the lower class of disembodied souls flock in large numbers
around the congenial scene, striving to break the narrow bounds which
separate them from the physical plane in such places.
Perhaps the best way to make plain to you the general aspects and
phenomena of the Astral World,
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would be to describe to you an imaginary trip made by yourself in that
world, in charge of an experienced occultist. We will send you, in
imagination, on such a trip, in this lesson, in charge of a competent guide-it
being presupposed that you have made considerable spiritual progress, as
otherwise even the guide could not take you very far, except by adopting
heroic and very unusual methods, which he probably would not see fit to do
in your case. Are you ready for your trip? Well, here is your guide.
You have gone into the silence, and suddenly become aware of having
passed out of your body, and to be now occupying only your astral body.
You stand beside your physical body, and see it sleeping on the couch, but
you realize that you are connected with it by a bright silvery thread, looking
something like a large bit of bright spider-web. You are conscious of the
presence of your guide, who is to conduct you on your journey.He also has
left his physical body, and is in his astral form, which reminds you of a
vapory something, the shape of the human body, but which can be seen
through, and which can move through solid objects at will. Your guide takes
your hand in his and says, "Come," and in an instant you have left your
room and are over the city in which you dwell, floating along as does a
summer cloud. You begin to fear lest you may fall, and as soon as the
thought enters your mind you find yourself sinking. But your guide places
a hand under you and sustains you, saying, "Now just real-
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ize that you cannot sink unless you fear, to hold the thought that you are
buoyant and you will be so." You do so, and are delighted to find that you
may float at will, moving here and there in accordance to your wish or
desire.
You see great volumes of thought-clouds arising from the city like great
clouds of smoke, rolling along and settling here and there. You also see
some finer vapory thought-clouds in certain quarters, which seem to have
the property of scattering the dark clouds when they come in contact with
them. Here and there you see bright thin lines of bright light, like an
electric spark, traveling rapidly through space, which your guide tells you
are telepathic messages passing from one person to another, the light being
caused by the Prana with which the thought is charged. You see, as you
descend toward the ground, that every person is surrounded by an
egg-shaped body of color, his aura - in which is reflected his thought and
prevailing mental state, the character of the thought being represented by
varying colors. Some are surrounded by beautiful auras, while others have
around them a black, smoky aura, in which are seen flashes of red light.
Some of these auras make you heartsick to observe, as they give evidence of
such base, gross, and animal thoughts, that they cause you pain, as you
have become more sensitive now that you are out of your physical body. But
you have not much time to spare here, as your trip is but a short one, and
your guide bids you come on.
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You do not seem to change your place in space, but a change seems to have
come over everything like the lifting of a gauzy curtain in the pantomime.
You no longer see the physical world with its astral phenomena, but seem
to be in a new world - a land of queer shapes. You see astral "shells" floating
about - discarded astral bodies of those who have shed them as they passed
on. These are not pleasant to look upon, and you hurry on with your guide,
but before you leave this second ante-room to the real Astral World, your
guide bids you relax your mental dependence upon your astral body, and
much to your surprise you find yourself slipping out of it, leaving it in the
world of shells, but being still connected with it by a silk-like cord, or
thread, just as it, in turn, is connected with your physical body, which you
have almost forgotten by this time, but to which you are still bound by these
almost invisible ties. You pass on clothed in a new body, or rather an inner
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