Theosophical astral cosmology
Repercussion
Leadbeater uses repercussion to explain a wound on an animal-like manifestation appearing on the person associated with it. The claim supports his esoteric version of werewolf stories. He later applies the same idea to a mark found on a medium after contact with a supposed spirit hand. This offers an alternative to fraud within his system, but does not independently establish that alternative.
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Principal account
ReportedLeadbeater uses repercussion to explain a wound on an animal-like manifestation appearing on the person associated with it. The claim supports his esoteric version of werewolf stories.
Further detail
ReportedHe later applies the same idea to a mark found on a medium after contact with a supposed spirit hand. This offers an alternative to fraud within his system, but does not independently establish that alternative.
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
physical body by the extra ordinary phenomenon of repercussion : though after the death of that physical body, the astral (which will probablyOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 61
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0061
- Original scan leaf
- 64
- Recorded leaf number
- 64
- Current Reader position
- 57
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Astral Plane
was afterwards found upon his hand— the explanation being that in that case, as so often happens, the " spirit " was simplyOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 124
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0124
- Original scan leaf
- 127
- Recorded leaf number
- 127
- Current Reader position
- 120
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
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Werewolf
Animal transformation explained as a seized and materialized astral body.
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