Scenery

From the text

FIRST of all, then, it must be understood that the astral plane has seven subdivisions, each of which has its corresponding degree of materiality and its corresponding condition of matter. Although the poverty of physical language forces us to speak of these subplanes as higher and lower, we must not fall into the mistake of thinking of them (or indeed of the greater planes of which they are only subdivisions) as separate localities in space — as lying above one another like the shelves of a book-case or outside one another like the coats of an onion.

C. W. Leadbeater · Third revised edition scan, circa 1900 · Theosophical Publishing Society · 1900