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The Tenth Lesson: The Astral World155
and feeling, has five astral senses (counterparts of the physical senses)
operating on the astral plane, by which he may receive sense impressions
without the aid of the physical sense organs. He also possesses a “sixthsense”
physical organ (the organ of the “telepathic” sense) which also has a
corresponding astral sense.
These astral senses function on the lower astral plane—the plane next
removed from the physical plane—and the phenomena of clairvoyance is
produced by the use of these astral senses, as we have described in the Sixth
Lesson. There are, of course, higher forms of clairvoyance, which operate
on planes far above that used in ordinary clairvoyance, but such powers
are so rare, and are possessed only by those of high attainment, that we
need scarcely do more than mention them here. On this lower astral plane,
the clairvoyant sees; the clairaudient hears; the psychometrist feels. On this
plane the astral body moves about, and “ghosts” manifest. Disembodied
souls living on the higher planes of the Astral World, in order to communicate
with those on the physical plane, must descend to this lowest plane, and
clothe themselves with coarse astral matter in order to accomplish their
object. On this plane moves the “astral bodies” of those in the flesh, who
have acquired the art of projecting themselves in the astral. It is possible
for a person to project his astral body, or travel in his astral body, to any
point within the limits of the earth’s attraction, and the trained occultist may
do so at will, under the proper conditions. Others may occasionally take
such trips (without knowing just how they do it, and having, afterwards, the
remembrance of a particular and very vivid dream); in fact many of us do
take such trips, when the physical body is wrapped in sleep, and one often
gains much information in this way, upon subjects in which he is interested,
by holding astral communication with others interested in the same subject,
all unconsciously of course. The conscious acquirement of knowledge in this
way, is possible only to those who have progressed quite a way along the
path of attainment. The trained occultist merely places himself in the proper
mental condition, and then wishes himself at some particular place, and