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Astral Plane
It’s Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
by
C. W. Leadbeater
Contents.
PREFACE by Annie Besant
INTRODUCTION by C. J. Jinarajadasa
A GENERAL SURVEY
SCENERY
The Seven Subdivisions; Degrees of Materiality; Characteristics of Astral Vision; The Aura; The Etheric Double; Power of Magnifying Minute Objects; The “Summerland”; Records in Astral Matter.
INHABITANTS
I. Human
(1) Living: The Adept or his Pupil; The Psychically Developed Person; The Ordinary Person; The Black Magician.
(2) Dead: The Nirmanakaya; The Pupil 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 Grey World; The Black Magician after Death.
II. Non-human
The Elemental Essence; The Astral Bodies of Animals; Various Classes of Nature-Spirits, commonly called Fairies; Kamadevas; Rupadevas; Arupadevas; The Devarajas.
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, Stonethrowing, etc.; Fairies; Communicating Entities; Astral Resources; Clairvoyance; Prevision; Second-Sight; Astral Force; 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.
CONCLUSION
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