He added: "The debt to H.P.Blavatsky is greater than could ever be indicated by quotations from her monumental volumes. The works of H.P.Blavatsky were not used because the author said that the necessary research in The Secret Doctrine and other writings would have been too vast a task for him to undertake. Marginal references give opportunity to refer to the sources. There is no attempt to prove or even justify any of the statements. So far as possible, the method adopted was to explain the form side first, before the life side: to describe the objective mechanism of phenomena and then the activities of consciousness that are expressed through the mechanism. The accompanying list shows the large number of books from which he drew.
#Etheric double pdf series#
Reprint, Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1969.THE ETHERIC DOUBLE The Health Aura of Man A.E.Powell Publisher's Preface The author's aim in compiling the books in this series was to save students much time and labour by providing a condensed synthesis of the considerable literature on the respective subjects of each volume, coming mostly from the pens of Annie Besant and C.W.Leadbeater. Reprint, Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1967. Aside from their specialized use in Theosophy, the terms etheric double and etheric body are often used synonymously with astral body. Those who have claimed experience of astral projection or out-of-the-body travel state that the etheric or astral body is connected to the physical body by a subtle, infinitely extensible cord. With the decay of the physical body, the double reportedly also decays. Shortly after death, the etheric double finally quits the physical body though it does not move far away from the body, but is composed of the four subdivisions of physical matter alluded to earlier. During sleep the double does not leave the physical body indeed, in dreams the etheric part of the brain is extremely active, especially when, as is often the case, the dreams are caused by attendant physical circumstances, such as noise. The etheric double thus plays the part of a conductor, and a bridge between the physical and astral bodies, for without it humans could have no communications with the astral world and hence neither thoughts nor feelings.Īnesthetics are said to drive out the greater part of the double, and the subject is then impervious to pain. The sense organs of the etheric double are the chakras, and it is through the chakras that the physical body is supplied with the vitality necessary for its existence and its well-being during life. The term double is used because the etheric double is a replica of the denser physical body.
The etheric double is not made of the supposed omnipresent ether of space, but is composed of physical matter known as etheric, superetheric, subatomic, and atomic. According to theosophical teaching, derived from ancient Hindu philosophy, the etheric double is an invisible part of the ordinary, visible, physical body, which it interpenetrates and beyond which it extends a little, forming with other finer bodies the aura.
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