The Auric Envelope: Its Constitution 



successively through these sheaths, withdrawing, 

 as the state of Samadhi approaches, more and more 

 remotely from the purely physical to the highest 

 spiritual. 



The Psychic, or Lower Manasic, sheath grows 

 exactly in proportion as the mind develops. With 

 the growth of the higher capacities of the mind, 

 the aura becomes a very beautiful, irradiating one, 

 penetrating and extending beyond the Kamic 

 sheath. The all-pervading Akdsha is the medium, 

 or atmosphere, in which the emanations of the 

 several sheaths flow and intermingle; while Atma 

 is both within and without, the force behind force 

 in every vibration. Enveloping all, though lim- 

 ited by the self-development of the individual, 

 even Atma is constrained by the medium, its den- 

 sity or rarity, through which it manifests. 



Thus the aura is an absolute revelation of the 

 divinity within. When it emanates from a radiant 

 center nourished by a spiritually alive soul, it pro- 

 claims the purity and light within by the greater 

 size of the separate auras, and by the transcendent 

 radiance of the colors. 



