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The Tenth Lesson: The Astral World153
The Tenth Lesson: The Astral World
We are confronted with a serious difficulty at the beginning of this
lesson, which will be apparent to those of our students who are well
advanced in occult studies. We allude to the matter of the description of
“planes” of existence. These lessons are intended as elementary studies
designed to give the beginner a plain, simple idea of the general principles
of occultism, without attempting to lead him into the more complicated
stages of the subject. We have tried to avoid technicalities, so far as is
possible, and believe that we have at least fairly well accomplished our
task of presenting elementary principles in a plain manner, and we know
that we have succeeded in interesting many persons in the study, who had
heretofore been deterred from taking it up because of the mass of technical
description and complicated description of details that met their view upon
taking up other works on the subject.
So, in this lesson on the Astral World, and the three lessons that follow
it, we will be compelled to deal in generalities instead of going into minute
and careful descriptions such as would be needed in a work taking up the
“higher-grade” work. Instead of endeavoring to describe just what a “plane”
is, and then going on to point out the nice little differences between “planes”
and “sub-planes” we shall treat the whole subject of the higher planes of