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The astral body is in occultism , one of the seven bodies that human beings are supposed to be. It comes third after the physical body and the etheric body (see Septenary ). Its name comes from what would be composed of forces and substances taken from the astral plane. It would have supersensible bodies named differently according to the esoteric traditions, such as flowers or lotus chakras. Among living things on Earth, only humans and animals had one. Perceptible only through the gift of clairvoyance, it would surround living creatures, animated by a kind of aura driven currents and colored lights that reflect their mental state.

Synonyms by Peter A. Riffard History of concept

"The ba has complete freedom of movement and travel, it travels between heaven and earth, separated from the mummified body but returned periodically to him, to bring him the light that connects all beings. The ba, beyond death, performs all functions: eating, drinking, cooling off under a tree, copulate, conduct all types of travel. " Valery Sanfo: "We can consider the ka as corresponding to the ethereal body doubled, and the ba to the astral body, the chu
  • Origin in the Hindu : the subtle body. The astral body of man is connected, in the terminology Theosophist the linga-share (or sukshma-share). The term linga-sharira means, in fact, more generally, the "subtle body". It is derived from Hindu doctrines, especially Vedanta of Shankara (788-820), is found earlier in the Samkhya-Karika in II e s . The concept of "astral body" in the West rather correspond to the kama-Shara, "desire body" in manomaya-kosha, "envelope of thought," lower mind (manas). This "body" is characterized mainly by the lower mind says (sensations, emotions) and the desire (wishes, desires, libido ...), but it also concerns the dreams, the dead, the duplication ...
    • "Different from the self that is in the essence of vital energy . On the other hand, the Babylonians (as W. Bousset), or rather around 600 BC. AD neo-Babylonians (as Franz Cumont), defend the idea of an ascent or descent planets. Souls, when initiating or death, through the celestial spheres, and each time they are like a tunic, the virtue of this sphere, or they lose their clothes. The Babylonian order of the planets is: "Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter and Venus are the pair beneficial, Mercury is ambiguous, Saturn and Mars are the stars terrible (in Greek: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury) . We find this theory of the descent of the soul from the Magi of Persia, in the Chaldean Oracles (ca. 170) in the first treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum, among the Gnostics (Book of the Great Treaty of initiation, or Both books Ieou ), in the Neoplatonic Porphyry of Tyre , in Judaism (Ascension of Isaiah, Enoch II) in the Quran (II, 29), in the Mysteries of Mithra .
    • Pre-concept in Plato. "The theory of 'pneumatic body' (or 'astral') goes back to Plato, or to texts where there is nothing on the astral body, as Phaedo 113 d, Phaedrus, 247 b, Timaeus, 41 e, 44 e, 69 c, or rather, Laws, X, 898 e ff. " Plato, Laws, X, 898 e ss. "The Sun, Moon, other planets, the soul is leading the round of all things ... The soul that drives the sun ... All is full of gods ..." In the Timaeus, Plato says that a god box each soul in each of the fixed stars (41st), not planets, the stars are gods in that they are moved to a regular movement eternal (immortal divine =) and that this movement implies the presence in them of a soul reasonable immortal (Phaedrus, 246 c).
    • Rationalization in Aristotle. In his treatise On the Soul, (circa 330 BC.) Aristotle distinguishes four major functions or faculties (dynameis) or forms of the soul (psyche), which mark the stages of development soul. 1) The nutritive faculty, or "nutritive soul," is the ability to assimilate external elements. It belongs to all living things, plants and animals, which grow and is grouped with the reproductive ability, reproductive function. 2) The sensitive faculty is among the only animals with the direction (from lowest to highest: touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight), the perception of pleasure and pain, desire, then - for humans - the imagination and common sense (the man feels that he feels and discriminate the various sensations). 3) the motive faculty, or appetitive, that the most perfect animals can move to meet their needs. 4) The right thinking, reason, intellect (nous), belongs only to human beings "as man and every kind or higher, if it exists" (On the Soul, II, 3, 414 b 18). - The sensitive soul and the appetitive soul, often grouped into core made of feelings, desires and movements (the Soul, III, 10, 433 b 10-11), so similar to the astral body.
    • According to the treaties I (Poimandres) and XII of the Corpus Hermeticum (100-300), at birth every soul is the vice of the planet it crosses, and conversely, to death, every soul must, in its hello, up, acquire the virtue of each planet. The soul, which was Intellect (nous) is responsible for properties of each planet and in the region infralunaire she wraps of breath (pneuma), so she gets into a physical body. The order is the order Chaldean: Moon (growth), Mercury (Malice), Venus (desire), Sun (command), Mars (recklessness), Jupiter (wealth), Saturn (lie) . The astral soul is called vehicle () tunic (), wrap, garment ().
    • Development among Neoplatonists. In the Chaldean Oracles (ca. 170), influenced by Middle Platonism, we find the theory invented in Babylonia that, in its descent from heaven to earth, the soul is a part of the ether, sun, Moon and everything that floats in air, that is to say the blasts, spirits (air) . The Neo-Platonist Plotinus alludes (Enneads, IV, 4, 32, II, 2, 2). The philosopher Iamblichus (The Mysteries of Egypt, IV, 13) called "breath" (pneuma ), vehicle (Ochema ) of the soul, this spirit when he descends from the world intelligible in the sensible world. Proclos in trafficking in his Elements of Theology . They have three components in the human being: body, the vehicle, the soul. Synesius also his concept of astral body .
    • Marsilio Ficino describes him as "the midpoint between the body and soul" of the nature of the ether . The "vehicle of the soul" (vehiculum animae) is a small slender body and very very bright, but not astral It is spherical .
    • Originated with Paracelsus in 1537. The term "astral body" goes back to Paracelsus , who abuses synonyms (sidereal celestial, spiritual, etc..) and ambiguities (= invisible astral, energetic). Paracelsus admits the simplest, a triad of elementary body, astral body, spirit. Paracelsus speaks improperly in his great book of philosophy, The Great astronomy, or philosophy of true wisdom, Philosophia Sagax. Key to all mysteries of the large and small worlds . "Man has two bodies: one that comes of the Elements, and the other is based on the sidereal nature. When the man dies, the elementary body, with his mind, goes to the ground, and the astral body is consumed in the firmament "(p. 88). The astral body is not material or physical body as immortal as the spirit is an invisible, lethal force that has its origins in the "natural light" of things, the Astrum (Astre) the Gestirn (Constellation), an "Ether", not necessarily astronomical or astrological, a subtle fire. It adheres to me, it is quite natural but extraordinary powers (acting at a distance, make magic with images, heal spiritually, etc.).. "The astral body is the engine of the elementary body to the time of our earthly life" (p. 179). "In our sleep, the body operates sidereal" (p. 222). Paracelsus uses the word to describe evestrum the astral body when it may separate and become a double.
    • Spiritualists (especially Allan Kardec , 1857, in The Book of Spirits) have done much to reintroduce the concept of astral body, especially about the events of the deceased. "Man has two natures: for his body, he partakes of the nature of the animals he has the instincts of his soul partakes of the nature of spirits. The link or perispirit unites body and spirit is a sort of semi-material envelope. Death is the destruction of the envelope the grossest, the Spirit keeps the second, which constitutes a body ethereal, invisible to us in the normal state, but it can accidentally make visible and even tangible, as this happens in the phenomenon of apparitions. "
    • Development among occultists (Eliphas Levi, Papus, etc..) and spiritualists. The term "astral body" is used by the occultist Stanislas de Guaita in his works. Especially in The Serpent of Genesis (1891-1897), where he explains that the astral body is a portion of the individual " astral light ", a concept also from Paracelsus. Papus admits a tri-unity:
    "This theory admits between the physical body and the anatomy and the immortal spirit and psychology through a principle responsible for relations between the two extremes and is within the domain of physiology (...) The ancient Hermetic named this principle trainer body or astral body and to him they attributed the preservation and maintenance of the forms of organization. Now I can say that the study of this astral body, I have been pursuing for nearly ten years, allowed me to make a very scientific explanation of these strange phenomena that confound hypnotic and spiritualists as currently some of the teachers Faculty of Paris. "(Notes of spiritual autobiography in The Initiation, December 1895).
    • Syncretism among Theosophists. The Theosophy of Helena Blavatsky operates a syncretism of various mystical traditions and is a Septenary human, including the astral body. Here is what you read in articles "astral body" and "Linga Sharira" the Theosophical Glossary by Helena Blavatsky, "Astral Body, or 'Double' Astral. The ethereal counterpart or shadow of the man or animal: the Linga Shara, Doppelgnger. The reader should not confuse it with the astral soul, another name for the lower manas, kama-manas yet known, reflecting the higher ego (...) 'Linga Shara' (Sanskrit). The body, that is to say, the symbol of the air corps. This term designates the doppelganger or 'astral body' of man or animal. It is the 'eidolon' Greeks, the vital body and 'prototypal': a reflection of men of flesh. He was born before the body dies or disappears with the disappearance of the last atom of the body. " In terms of syncretism, we can do better. According to Theosophist Arthur Edward Powell , the astral body interpenetrate the physical body, while extending beyond the limits of the body in all directions. The portion of the astral body that exceeds the body is generally called "astral aura." This will form a cloud more or less ovoid multicolored lights. Theory septenary bodies according theosophism was aired for the first time in 1881 by Allan Octavian Hume: physical body, etheric body, astral body, desire body, lower manas, manas higher spirit , .
    • The testimony on the "astral travel" or " journey out of body "(Robert Monroe, 1971; Guesne Jeanne , 1978) to restore the concept of astral body a certain reality. The notion of experience out-of-body (Out-of-Body Experience, OBE) has been a success.
    • Interest in the astral body has also renewed the book by Raymond Moody on Life After Life (1974). It deals with near death experiences (Near Death Experience) and hence sensation, once clinically dead, floating in a dark space with a light body or meeting deceased relatives or friends have a spiritual body.

    Events

    Phenomena and experiences that, according to the esoteric, prove the existence of the astral body:

    1. deep sleep. The existence of the astral body is evidenced by the deep dreamless sleep. According to Rudolf Steiner , "every night, falling asleep, the man leaves his little world, his microcosm, to enter the grand universe, the macrocosm, and it unites with the macrocosm by spreading its astral body and I "(macrocosm and microcosm, p. 29).
    2. experience of hypnotism, animal magnetism. Some were exposed by Alfred Binet and Charles Fere . The magnetic passes, the sessions of hypnosis would separate the astral body from the physical body.
    3. the bi-location. When the saints are said to be in two places at once, there would be the physical body in place, the astral body to another. "Jeanne-Marie Bonomo (Bassano) describes itself details of his travels. It was during her ecstasies, transported to remote locations, addresses and giving advice to some spersonnes who felt the need and who attested to having seen and heard while his religious congregation say it No had not left his cell "(Helene Renard, Prodigies and men, 1989, Pocket, p. 231-232).
    4. the astral travel. When decorporation experience, or Out-of-Body-Experience, the astral body comes off and live an independent life. Here is the testimony of Mollie Fancher, New York: "I fall into a trance, I leave myself, I deci beyond, and I see a lot of things. Sometimes I go into a house, I look at the layout of rooms, but I do not see anyone. Other times I see people and nothing else. " . Psychiatrists still disagree with this interpretation.
    5. the shamanic trance. The shaman says both that the disease is due to the fact that the patient has suffered a loss of the soul, the other that he will heal himself out of the body, either voluntarily or to involuntarily, and in a trance or cataleptic (in which case the physical body is at rest) or sleepwalking (in which case he becomes agitated, dancing, singing, mime travel, imitates an animal).
    6. hell. Proponents of reincarnation, school Theosophist (Helena Blavatsky) or anthroposophic (Rudolf Steiner), after the death occurs a moment of purification of the soul, where passions are purged: So, the astral body is cleaned of his passions. Omraam Aivanhov Mikhael wrote in The Man to conquer his destiny (1981), p. 161: " , so that their health information on the status of the astral body.

    Ideas

    Satyananda: "The attributes of the astral body are three: smoky, strong and enlightened" (Kundalini Tantra Swam Editions, 2007).

    The brightness and extent of the astral body depend on the quality and level of emotional development, intellectual and spiritual development of individuals. The substance of the astral body is constantly in motion. The astral body can feel and is also the vehicle of feelings, emotions and desires. For this reason, it is often called kama rupa or "body of desire" or sometimes "animal soul" in ancient writings. In each particular emotion is a corresponding colored light in the astral body (as well as perception due to some synesthesia between sounds and colors). The astral body is the seat of pleasure and pain. The impressions from the physical environment act first on the physical body, is transmitted by the vitality or prana to the astral body, which by its karmic principle transforms printed sensation. This explains the total absence of feelings of individuals experiencing ecstasies , their astral body is detached (physical insensibility members exposed to the flame of a candle to pinprick).

    According to Annie Besant , "knowledge of the phenomena of the astral world is communicated to us by the pituitary body (the occult life of man, p. 52).

    Esotericists parallel the subtle body and subtle levels, that is to say, the levels of the invisible world. There in the macrocosm in the world, etheric plane, as in the microcosm in the human etheric body, an astral plane, etc..

    The Silver Cord

    The "silver cord" or "astral cord" means a thin rope light, composed of many filaments or son, infinitely expandable, connecting the physical body (the body) in the etheric body (life force).

    Main article: Silver Cord.

    The astral travel

    It is possible that the so-called " astral travel "," astral projection ", in English out-of-the body experience, refers to the astral body, which comes off the physical body. The founder of the Theosophical Society, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott told his Old Diary Leaves diary (1895-1935), he had experienced several times out of body. He shares his observations on the astral body, that it can be dangerous to split with a double too dense, so it is exposed to beatings, lacerations, blunt objects. The physical body react as if he had himself been exposed to these shocks and penetrations. He named this effect: "pass". This phenomenon is corroborated by passing Yram Hector Durville Sylvan Muldoon and explain that it is "the silver cord" that convey all the sensations of a vehicle to another, that is to say, the astral body the physical body. Henry Steel Olcott has translated a French book that talked about this possible dissociation and this impact: An Essay on Humanity posthumous A. Assier (1883).

    In Buddhism , astral travel (manomaya iddhi, "travel with a body made of mind") is one of the "magic" (iddhipada) that may occur in very advanced meditators, or among the Buddhas. Suttras of the Pali canon mention many cases among the disciples of Buddha, as Moggallana.

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