Theosophical astral cosmology
Aura
Leadbeater describes an oval luminous mist around a living creature and calls the human form an auric egg. His classification treats its different portions as manifestations of different aspects of the person. Astral colors express changing desires, mental colors change more slowly, and the causal light marks a continuing individuality. These distinctions are claimed clairvoyant observations, not measurements of a demonstrated biological field.
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Principal account
ReportedLeadbeater describes an oval luminous mist around a living creature and calls the human form an auric egg. His classification treats its different portions as manifestations of different aspects of the person.
Further detail
ReportedAstral colors express changing desires, mental colors change more slowly, and the causal light marks a continuing individuality. These distinctions are claimed clairvoyant observations, not measurements of a demonstrated biological field.
Context & interpretation
Leadbeater presents a Theosophical classification based on claimed occult investigation. Its planes, beings, and mechanisms belong to that historical esoteric system; the book’s assurance of reality is an authorial claim rather than independent scientific verification.
Original passages
Source 1
The Astral Plane
of study. It is seen as an oval mass of luminous mist of highly com plex structure, and from its shape has sometimes been called theOpen this page in the book
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Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 21
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Source 2
The Astral Plane
as mere emanations, but as the actual manifestation of the ego on their respective planes- -if he understands that it is the auric egg whichOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 22
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
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- IMJ-0005-E001
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- Original scan leaf
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- Recorded leaf number
- 25
- Current Reader position
- 18
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader