The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena

by

Arthur A. Powell

 
The purpose of this book is to present to the student of Theosophy a condensedsynthesis of the information at present available concerning the Astral Body of man, together with a description and explanation of the astral world and its phenomena. The book is thus a natural sequel of The Etheric Double and Allied
Phenomena published in 1925. In order that the book may fulfil its purpose by being kept within
reasonable dimensions, the general plan followed has been to expound the principles underlying astral phenomena, omitting particular examples or instances.

Lecturers and others who wish specific illustrations of the principles enunciated, will find the marginal references useful as a clue to the places where the examples they seek may be found.

Again, so far as the complexities and ramifications of the subject permit, the method has been to explain the form side first, before the life side: i.e., to describe first the objective mechanism of phenomena, and then
the activities of consciousness which are expressed through that mechanism. The careful student, bearing this in [Page xiv ] mind, will thus recognise many passages, which at first glance might appear to be repetitive, in which the same phenomenon is described first from the point of view of the outer material form and then again later from the point of view of the spirit or consciousness.

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