The second stage is the intellect, otherwise known as the sharpening of the mind. The first three subdivisions of the instinctive mind are passions, desires, and lusts. In addition, one must spend time tuning the "instinctive mind". The first stage in development, according to Ramacharaka, is "mastery of the physical body and its care and attention", which pertains not only to the physical body but also to its double in the astral. Individuals that are trained in the use of the astral vehicle can separate their consciousness in the astral vehicle from the physical body at will. The astral plane and astral experience Planes of existenceĪccording to occult teachings the astral plane can be visited consciously through astral projection, meditation and mantra, near death experience, lucid dreaming, or other means. Once the telescope established that no spiritual heaven was visible around the solar system, the idea was superseded in mainstream science. Throughout the Renaissance, philosophers, Paracelsians, Rosicrucians and alchemists continued to discuss the nature of the astral world intermediate between earth and the divine. By the 14th century Dante was describing his own imaginary journey through the astral spheres of Paradise. The expositions of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the Brotherhood of Purity and others, when translated into Latin in the Norman era, were to have a profound effect upon European mediaeval alchemy and astrology. Scholars took up the Greek Neoplatonist accounts as well as similar material in Hindu and Zoroastrian texts. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know-God knows." Īmong Muslims the "astral" world-view was soon rendered orthodox by Quranic references to the Prophet's ascent through the seven heavens. Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians contains a reference to the astral plane or astral projection: "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Such doctrines were commonplace in mystery-schools and Hermetic and gnostic sects throughout the Roman Empire and influenced the early Christian church. It is for this reason, you know, that some are accustomed to say that his consciousness corresponds with the nature of the fixed stars, his reason in its contemplative aspect with Saturn and in its social aspect with Jupiter, (and) as to his irrational part, the passionate nature with Mars, the eloquent with Mercury, the appetitive with Venus, the sensitive with the Sun and the vegetative with the Moon. He is also divided up according to the universe. For, just like the Whole, he possesses both mind and reason, both a divine and a mortal body. In his commentaries on Plato's Timaeus, Proclus wrote In the "astral mysticism" of the classical world the human psyche was composed of the same material, thus accounting for the influence of the stars upon human affairs. Plato and Aristotle taught that the stars were composed of a type of matter different from the four earthly elements - a fifth, ethereal element or quintessence. 2 The astral plane and astral experience.In Judaism, it is known as the "World of Yetzirah", according to Lurianic Kabbalah. The Barzakh, olam mithal or intermediate world in Islam is a related concept. Christ being in that realm, it is hard to construe it as a non-heaven. work with Christ and the planetary hierarchy," she refers to a vision she had of the unseen astral realm that these and countless other beings inhabit. many astral planets, teeming with astral beings." (p.416) When Alice Bailey writes of seeing "Masters. is hundreds of times larger than the material universe. Paramahansa Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi, "The astral universe. Some writers conflate this realm with heaven or paradise or union with God itself, and others do not. It is understood that all consciousness resides in the astral plane. In the late 19th and early 20th century the term was popularised by Theosophy and neo- Rosicrucianism.Īnother view holds that the astral plane or world, rather than being some kind of boundary area crossed by the soul, is the entirety of spirit existence or spirit worlds to which those who die on Earth go, and where they live out their non-physical lives. It is the world of the celestial spheres, crossed by the soul in its astral body on the way to being born and after death, and is generally believed to be populated by angels, spirits or other immaterial beings. The astral plane, also called the astral realm or the astral world, is a plane of existence postulated by classical, medieval, oriental, and esoteric philosophies and mystery religions. The astral spheres were thought to be planes of angelic existence intermediate between earth and heaven.
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