Expectancy of freedom is the dominant note of to-day. Amid the crash of armies and the clash of systems we await some liberating stroke which shall release us from the old dreary thralldoms.

As Nietzsche says, "It would seem as though we had before us, as a reward for all our toils, a country still undiscovered, the horizons of which no one has yet seen, a beyond to every country and every refuge of the ideal that man has ever known, a world so overflowing with beauty, strangeness, doubt, terror and divinity, that both our curiosity and our lust of possession are frantic with eagerness."

Should a name be demanded for this home of freedom, there are those who would unhesitatingly call it The Fourth Dimension of Space . For such readers as may be ignorant of the amazing content of this seemingly meaningless phrase, any summary attempt at enlightenment will lead only to deeper mystification.

To the question, where and what is the fourth dimension, the answer must be, it is here--in us, and all about us--in a direction toward which we can never point because at right angles to all the directions that we know. Our space cannot contain it, because it contains our space. No walls separate us from this demesne, not even the walls of our fleshly prison; yet we may not enter, even though we are already "there." It is the place of dreams, of living dead men: it is At the Back of the North Wind and Behind the Looking Glass .

CHAPTER I. - THE QUEST OF FREEDOM

The Undiscovered Country Miracles
The Failure of Common Sense
The Function of Science
Mathematics
Intuition
Our Sense of Space
The Subjectivity of Space
The Need of an Enlarged Space-Concept.

CHAPTER II. - THE DIMENSIONAL LADDER

Learning to Think in Terms of Spaces
From the Cosmos to the Corpuscle
And Beyond
Evolution as Space-Conquest
Dimensional Sequences
Man the Geometer
Higher, and Highest, Space.

CHAPTER III. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA

Looking for the Greater in the Less
Symmetry
Other Allied Phenomena
Isomerism
The Orbital Motion of Spheres: Cell-Subdivision
The Electric Current
The Greater Universe
A Hint from Astronomy
Gravitation
The Ether of Space

CHAPTER IV. - TRANSCENDENTAL PHYSICS

Zöllner
Apparitions
Possession
Clairvoyance in Space
Clairvoyance in Time
Pisgah Sights of Life's Pageant

CHAPTER V. - CURVED TIME

Time from the Standpoint of Experiment and of Conscious Experience
Relativity
The Spoon-Man
The Orbital Movement of Time
Materiality the Mirror of Consciousness
Periodicity

CHAPTER VI. - SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleep
Dreams
Time in Dreams
The Eastern Teaching in regard to Sleep and Dreams
Space in Dreams
The Phenomenon of Pause

CHAPTER VII. - THE NIGHT SIDE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

The Field of Psychic Research
Modifying the Past
Karma and Reincarnation
Colonel De Rochas' Experiments

CHAPTER VIII. - THE EASTERN TEACHING

Oriental Physics and Metaphysics
The Self-Recovered Memory of past Births
Release

CHAPTER IX. - THE MYSTICS

Hermes Trismegistus
The Page and the Press
The Ship and its Captain
Direct Vision
Plato's Shadow-Watchers
Swedenborg
Man, the Space-Eater
The Within and Without
Intuition and Reason
The Coil of Life

CHAPTER X. - GENIUS

Immanence
Timelessness
Beyond Good and Evil: Beauty
The Daemonic
" A Dream and a Forgetting"
The Play of Brahm

CHAPTER XI. - THE GIFT OF FREEDOM

Concept and Conduct
Selflessness
Humility
Solidarity
Live Openly
Non-Resistance to Evil
The Immanent Divine.

Astral projection (or astral travel) is an out-of-body experience (OBE). This can be achieved while awake or via lucid dreaming, deep meditation, or use of psychotropic drugs.

Practicers and believers in astral projection claim that their consciousness or soultransfers into an astral body (or "double"), which moves in tandem with the physical body in a parallel world known as the astral plane.

Imagine the mind-awakening experiences you can have once you've learned to project yourself on the astral plane.

The ability to "time-travel" while relaxing in your meditation area or lying on your bed. An incredible concept that this document explores in detail.

THE ASTRAL SENSES

The skeptical person who "believes only the evidence of his senses." The man who has much to say about "horse sense." "Common Sense" versus Uncommon Senses. The ordinary five senses are not the only senses. The ordinary senses are not as infallible as many think them. Illusions of the five physical senses. What is back of the organs of physical sense. All senses an evolution of the sense of feeling. How the mind receives the report of the senses. The Real Knower behind the senses. What the unfolding of new senses means to man. The super-physical senses. The Astral Senses. Man has seven physical senses, instead of merely five. Each physical sense has its astral sense counterpart. What the astral senses are. Sensing on the astral plane. How the mind functions on the astral plane, by means of the astral senses. The unfolding of the Astral Senses opens up a new world of experience to man.

ASTRAL-BODY TRAVELING

Astral visioning in Clairvoyance, and visioning by means of the Astral Body. The difference between the two phases of clairvoyant phenomena. The characteristics of Astral-Body traveling. How one traveling in the Astral Body may "see all around him," instead of merely gazing at an astral picture. Limitations of Astral-Body visioning. What the Astral-Body really is; and what it is like. How it disengages itself from the physical body, and travels in space. Many persons "travel in the astral" during ordinary sleep. Occult teachings regarding Astral-Body traveling. How dying persons often travel in the astral-body, before death. Many interesting cases cited, all well-authenticated by scientific investigation. Society for Psychical Research's records and reports on such cases. Dangers of uninstructed persons going out on the astral, except in dream state. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." A timely warning. A most important and interesting subject.

STRANGE ASTRAL PHENOMENA

Additional phases of Astral Phenomena. Projection of Thought-Forms. Something between ordinary Clairvoyance and Astral-Body perception. What a Thought-Form is. How it is created. What it does. Where it goes. How a portion of one's consciousness is projected in a Thought-Form. Using a Thought-Form as at cut-post, or observation point. How things appear when viewed from a Thought-Form. A wonderful phase of occult phenomena. Advantages and disadvantages of this form of clairvoyant visioning. Hindu Psychic Magic, and how it is performed. Remarkable illusory effects produced by Hindu Magicians. All is explained when the principle of the creation and projection of Thought-Forms is understood. Why the Hindus excel in this phase of occultism. An interesting description of Hindu Magic feats. The power of concentrated "visualization." The phenomena of Levitation, or the moving of articles at a distance. The occult explanation of this phenomenon. Natural explanation for so-called "super-natural" occurrence.

Lucid dreaming is basically dreaming while being aware that you are dreaming. If you are in a lucid dream, you will usually have some power over your dream — anything from being able to fly or making an object or room appear behind a door or inside a pocket, right up to being able to change into animals and create a whole world!

It is like being a director of your own movie. Lucid dreams have been scientifically proven to exist.

There are plenty of reasons you might want to lucidly dream. Perhaps the best reason is that it's simply fun! Just flying in a lucid dream is an exhilarating feeling. Lucid dreams are generally far more intense and vivid than most non-lucid dreams. You can use a lucid dream to wind down after a long day.

Preface

Dreaming Explained

What Is Lucid Dreaming?

Dangers Of Lucid Dreaming

Recalling Your Dreams

Induction Techniques

Useful "In Dream" Techniques

Conclusion

Reference to the astral plane, or Kâmaloka as it is called in Sanskrit, has frequently been made by Theosophical writers, and a good deal of information on the subject of this realm of nature is to be found scattered here and there in our books; but there is not, so far as I am aware, any single volume to which one can turn for a complete summary of the facts at present known to us about this interesting region.

The object of this manual is to collect and make some attempt to arrange this scattered information, and also to supplement it slightly in cases where new facts have come to our knowledge. It must be understood that any such additions are only the result of the investigations of a few explorers, and must not, therefore, be taken as in any way authoritative, but are given simply for what they are worth.

On the other hand every precaution in our power has been taken to ensure accuracy, no fact, old or new, being admitted to this manual unless it has been confirmed by the testimony of at least two independent trained investigators among ourselves, and has also been passed as correct by older students whose knowledge on these points is necessarily much greater than ours.

It is hoped, therefore, that this account of the astral plane, though it cannot be considered as quite complete, may yet be found reliable as far as it goes.

Contents

Introduction

Scenery

The Seven Subdivisions
Degrees of Materiality
Characteristics of Astral Vision
The Aura
The Etheric Double
Power of Magnifying Minute Objects
The "Summerland"
Records of the Astral Light

Inhabitants

I. Human

(1) Living:

The Adept or Chela in Mâyâvirûpa
The Psychically Developed Person
The Ordinary Person in Astral Body
The Black Magician.

(2) Dead:

The Nirmânakâya
The Chela awaiting Reincarnation
The Ordinary Person after Death
The Shade
The Shell
The Vitalized Shell
The Suicide
The Victim of Sudden Death
The Vampire
The Werewolf
The Black Magician after Death

II. Non-human:

The Elemental Essence
The Kâmarûpas of Animals
Various Classes of Nature-Spirits, commonly called fairies
Kâmadevas
Rûpadevas
Arûpadevas
The Devarâjahs

III. Artificial:

Elementals formed Unconsciously
Guardian Angels
Elementals formed Consciously
Human Artificials
The True Origin of Spiritualism

Phenomena

Churchyard Ghosts
Apparitions of the Dying
Haunted Localities
Family Ghosts
Bell-ringing, Stone-throwing, etc.
Fairies
Communicating Entities
Astral Resources
Clairvoyance
Prevision
Second-Sight
Astral Forces
Etheric Currents
Etheric Pressure
Latent Energy
Sympathetic Vibration
Mantras
Disintegration
Materialization
Why Darkness is required at a Séance
Spirit Photographs
Reduplication
Precipitation of Letters and Pictures
Slate-writing
Levitation
Spirit Lights
Handling Fire
Transmutation—Repercussion

 THE STUDY OF ASTRAL WORSHIP ITS BEGINNINGS & EVOLUTION

In constructing their system of nature, the ancient Astronomers constituted it of the Earth, the Firmament, the Planets, the Constellations and the Zodiac.

This document starts from those humble beginnings and opens us to a new way of seeing the evolution of religion in our society.

Shows the changes to which the creed and scriptures were subjected during the Middle Ages, and at the Reformation in the sixteenth century, through which they assumed the phases as now taught in the theologies, respectively of Catholicism and Orthodox Protestantism.

We also present an article relative to Freemasonry and Druidism, for the purpose of showing that, primarily, they were but different forms of the ancient Astrolatry. We also devote a few pages to the subjects of the Sabbath, and to that of "Pious Frauds."

INTRODUCTION

THE GEOCENTRIC SYSTEM OF NATURE

The Earth
The Firmament
The Planets
The Constellations
The Zodiac

THE SACRED NUMBERS 7 AND 12

THE TWELVE THOUSAND YEAR CYCLE

THE ANCIENT TRIAD

GOD SOL

THE ANCIENT COSMOGONY

FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN

INCARNATIONS OF GOD SOL

FABLE OF THE TWELVE LABORS

ANNIVERSARIES OF SOLAR WORSHIP

The Nativity
Epiphany or Twelfth Day
Lent or Lenten Season
Passion Week
Passion Plays
Resurrection and Easter Festival
Annunciation
Ascension
Assumption
The Lord's Supper
Transubstantiation
Autumnal Crucifixion
Michaelmas

PERSONIFICATIONS OF THE DIVISIONS OF TIME

The Hours
The Days
The Months
The Seasons
Half Year of Increasing Days
Half Year of Decreasing Days
Last Quarter of the Year

ZODIACAL SYMBOLS OF SOLAR WORSHIP

The Sphinx
The Dragon
The Bull
The Ram
The Lamb
The Fish

SIGNS OF THE CROSS

FUTURE REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS

The Oriental System
The Occidental System
The Second or General Judgment

JEWISH, OR ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY

THE PROPHECIES

ROMAN OR MODERN CHRISTIANITY

FREEMASONRY AND DRUIDISM

THE SABBATHPIOUS FRAUDS

CONCLUSION

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