The Astral Plane
C. W. Leadbeater · 1895
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About the book
A field guide to the world next door: its scenery, its seven subdivisions, and a complete census of its inhabitants from the recently dead to nature-spirits and thought-forms. Leadbeater writes like a naturalist who happens to be describing the invisible.
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Part 1 · A real country, just out of sight. The first six slides, free.
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The first thing Leadbeater wants settled is not what the astral plane looks like but whether it is there at all. His answer is flat: its objects and inhabitants are real in exactly the way your body, your furniture and your house are real. Or, borrowing a phrase from an early Theosophical book, as real as Charing Cross.
He is careful about which kind of real he means. His tradition can call everything except the One Unmanifested unreal, because everything else passes away. He sets that lofty sense aside and uses the word the way anyone would.
So astral things do not last forever. Neither do houses. While they last, they are "realities which we cannot afford to ignore", however few people are aware of them yet.
Inside the course
12 parts- The plane next door: what «astral» means hereFree above
- The seven subdivisions, and degrees of materiality
- Astral vision: how the scenery is seen
- The aura and the etheric double
Questions
Is The Astral Plane free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Astral Plane is waiting in the app’s library.
