The Auric Envelope: Its Constitution 



cognizes. The separation, like the different 

 sheaths of our bodies, is one of condition not of 

 place. 



The septenary law holds good on every plane, 

 and astral matter is of varying grades of density. 

 There are, so to speak, astral solids, liquids, gases, 

 and ethers as on the physical plane we know best, 

 but all are finer. There is practically no limit to 

 the subdivisions of matter by ever-increasing refine- 

 ment of its atoms; and life is more highly vital- 

 ized, and form is ever more and more plastic as 

 decreasing density presents less resistance to the 

 thought-forces which continually change and re- 

 mould it. 



Ethereal matter is astral, and the latter name 

 was given because of the luminous or starlike bril- 

 liancy of its most refined states. The matter of 

 the lowest subdivision of the astral world, corre- 

 sponding to our physical, scarce deserves the name, 

 but wanting a better distinction we must use it. To 

 astral sight the astral world is visible; but to den- 

 izens of that plane there exist the same limits of 

 condition as here, self-created through the mental 

 activities which in selecting the materials used 

 erect the wall of separation. 



The fineness or coarseness of the Kdmlc astral 

 body depends upon the emotions and thoughts 

 that play through it during this physical life. In 

 low states of development, desire, stimulated from 



