The Auric Envelope: How Affected 327 



It is in the Kamic and the two Manasic auras 

 that color plays most vividly and proclaims un- 

 mistakably the man within; for these are the de- 

 sire and thought vehicles wherein the influences 

 dominating and swaying the man set their seal 

 of energy. The color is the outward indication 

 of the force either used within, drawn by desire, 

 or generated in that mightiest engine for good or 

 ill a man's brain! 



Dr. Marques says: 'Through the two Ma- 

 nasic auras expert observers can clearly see the 

 fleeting impressions produced by the general 

 thought-currents [universal prevalent opinions] ; 

 impressions which vary according to the receptiv- 

 ity of man's corresponding Principle." It is in 

 the Lower Manasic aura that the psychic reads 

 the past events in the life of the subject, for the 

 negatives are all imprinted here. 



I think it is a mistake to speak of these auras as 

 emanations from the different sheaths; for I be- 

 lieve they are the sheaths themselves, all together 

 making up the aura, and filling the Auric Enve- 

 lope. Thus instead of many auras, we have sim- 

 ply the sheaths of the Principles composing the 

 septenary man, showing in the aura exactly how 

 they interblend; which Principle is most active, 

 and how through increasing refinement of the com- 

 ponent elements, the sheaths extend farther out, 

 manifesting the same increasing subtlety of struo 



