Theosophical astral cosmology
Poltergeist Phenomena
Leadbeater includes stone throwing and bell ringing among the disturbances he explains through elemental action. His classification does not require each disturbance to be produced by a dead human. He also gives nature spirits enough powers and glamour to reproduce many séance effects. The same outward event can thus have several supposed agents even within one book.
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Principal account
ReportedLeadbeater includes stone throwing and bell ringing among the disturbances he explains through elemental action. His classification does not require each disturbance to be produced by a dead human.
Further detail
ReportedHe also gives nature spirits enough powers and glamour to reproduce many séance effects. The same outward event can thus have several supposed agents even within one book.
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
the agent in most cases of stone-throwing or bell-ringing in haunted houses,Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 75
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- IMJ-0005-E001
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- IMJ-0005-E001-P0075
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- 78
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- 78
- Current Reader position
- 71
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Source 2
The Astral Plane
and even materializations. In tact, the nature-spirits alone, if any of them happened to be disposed to take the trouble, could giveOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 109
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- Edition
- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0109
- Original scan leaf
- 112
- Recorded leaf number
- 112
- Current Reader position
- 105
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader