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within. Though he were white-skinned, the aura 

 of a very vicious man will be a brown-red, or a 

 hot black; the extreme antithesis of the dazzlingly 

 luminous one surrounding an Adept, which " shines 

 with a sun-like splendor far beyond all imagina- 

 tion in its glorious loveliness." 



The Adept's Causal body is not only much 

 larger than that of the less developed but its col- 

 ors are differently arranged. Mr. Leadbeater 

 says, " These no longer move in whirling clouds, 

 but are in great concentric shells, yet penetrated 

 everywhere by radiations of living light always 

 pouring forth from him as a center. The order 

 of the colors differs according to the type to which! 

 the Adept belongs, so that there are several well- 

 marked varieties amid their glory." 



Throughout the Auric Envelope of the perfected 

 man, playing upon its luminous mist, can be seen 

 " millions of tiny living geometrical figures of 

 every conceivable shape, throbbing in incessant 

 pulsations; and in the center of it can be distin- 

 guished in glowing ethereal colors the mysterious 

 five-pointed double star, characteristic of Adept- 

 ship " (Human Aura, Marques). These geomet- 

 rical figures, circles, crescents, stars, spheres, and 

 triangles, are, of course, the Tattvic vibrations, 

 and are a part of every aura, playing through every 

 sheath; but are not so distinct in the aura of an 

 ordinary person, becoming more and more visible 



