Theosophical astral cosmology
Animal Life on the Astral Plane
Leadbeater’s account of a short animal afterlife and gradual individualization.
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Theosophical astral cosmology
Leadbeater’s account of a short animal afterlife and gradual individualization.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The subtle desire-body through which the authors explain emotional forms and habits.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
The image-bearing medium through which Lévi explains visions and magical influence.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Claimed perception that sees an object’s interior and several sides at once.
Theosophical astral cosmology
The layered luminous field described around living beings in Theosophy.
Egyptian funerary religion
The mobile aspect of the soul in Tirard’s account, pictured as a human-faced bird able to leave and return to the mummy.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Vehicle of the higher self that persists across births in the Theosophical account.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
The soul’s receptive surface for images within the astral light.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
The Ego is presented as the directing identity and the Will as its instrument for governing mental states.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Spiritual force descending into matter in Leadbeater’s system, distinguished from individual nature spirits and human-like creatures.
Theosophical astral cosmology
A subtle bodily counterpart assigned to the physical plane in Leadbeater’s model.
Goethe’s Faust, Part One
The bargain whose decisive condition concerns a moment of complete satisfaction.
Japanese fox legends, Davis retelling
The changes of appearance that let foxes pass as humans and later reveal themselves in Davis's legends.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
The power to admit or reject an affection despite its first arising.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The directed orange form used to distinguish ambition for useful work from ambition for personal acquisition.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Raja Yoga presents sensory organs, brain and nerves as instruments used by the mind.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
The source distinguishes feelings of one's own bodily condition from impressions referred to external objects.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The watchful, snake-like form that changes as jealousy becomes mixed with anger.
Egyptian funerary religion
The personal double for whom the tomb remains a dwelling.
Egyptian funerary religion
The luminous aspect of the deceased in Tirard’s account, associated with radiance and the company of the glorified dead.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The divine principle contemplated through globes, interwoven lines and threefold symbolism in Thought-Forms.
Goethe’s Faust, Part One
The dungeon’s final heavenly answer in Faust, declaring Margaret saved despite Mephistopheles’ opposing judgement.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The colour correspondences used by Besant and Leadbeater to interpret their illustrations.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The subtle body that Thought-Forms presents as the material of thinking and the origin of thought-generated vibrations.