Theosophical astral cosmology
Prevision
Leadbeater assigns accurate prevision to a higher plane and regards ordinary astral experiences as flashes or reflections. He links Scottish second sight with this lower, partial presentation. The surrounding account distinguishes a fragmented impression from a faculty considered reliable within his esoteric training model. A claim of foreknowledge is therefore not self-validating even by the book’s terms.
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Principal account
ReportedLeadbeater assigns accurate prevision to a higher plane and regards ordinary astral experiences as flashes or reflections. He links Scottish second sight with this lower, partial presentation.
Further detail
ReportedThe surrounding account distinguishes a fragmented impression from a faculty considered reliable within his esoteric training model. A claim of foreknowledge is therefore not self-validating even by the book’s terms.
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
our present subject. The faculty of accurate prevision, again, appertains altogether to that higher plane, yet flashes or reflections of it 3^°"Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 112
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Source 2
The Astral Plane
altogether to that higher plane, yet flashes or reflections of it 3^°" frequently show themselves to purely astral Second-sight, sight, more especially amongOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 112
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0112
- Original scan leaf
- 115
- Recorded leaf number
- 115
- Current Reader position
- 108
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader