THEOSOPHICAL MANUALS. No. 5
 
 
 
THE ASTRAL PLANE
ITS SCENERY, INHABITANTS AND
PHENOMENA
 
 
C. W. LEADBEATER
 
 
 
London:
Theosophical Publishing Society
7 Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C.
 
Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society,
Madras: The Theosophist Office, Adyar.
1895
PREFACE.
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 publicdemand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. Some havecomplained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical,and too expensive for the ordinary reader, and it is our hope that thepresent series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want.Theosophy is not only for the learned; it is for all. Perhaps amongthose who in these little books catch their first glimpse of itsteachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetratemore deeply into its philosophy, its science and its religion, facingits abstruser problems with the student's zeal and the neophyte'sardour. But these Manuals are not written for the eager student, whomno initial difficulties can daunt; they are written for the busy menand women of the work-a-day world, and seek to make plain some of thegreat truths that render life easier to bear and death easier to face.Written by servants of the Masters who are the Elder Brothers of ourrace, they can have no other object than to serve our fellow-men.
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 Mâyâvirûpa—The Psychically Developed Person—The Ordinary Person in Astral Body—The Black Magician. (2) Dead:—The Nirmânakâya—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. II. Non-human:—The Elemental Essence—The Kâmarûpas of Animals—Various Classes of Nature-Spirits, commonly calledFairies—Kâmadevas—Rûpadevas—Arûpadevas—The Devarâjahs. III. Artificial:—Elementals formed Unconsciously—GuardianAngels—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 isrequired at a Séance—Spirit Photographs—Reduplication—Precipitation of Letters and Pictures—Slate-writing—Levitation—Spirit Lights—HandlingFire—Transmutation—Repercussion.
     Conclusion.
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THE ASTRAL PLANE.
INTRODUCTION
Reference to the astral plane, or Kâma                        
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