Understanding the Auric Field Elchima “For the one who has invested the required discipline into acquiring true astral vision, they no longer see only the outer appearance; almost exactly coextensive with that physical body they clearly distinguish the etheric double; while the universal life-fluid as it is absorbed and specialized, as it circulates in rosy light throughout the body, as it eventually radiates from the healthy person in its altered form, is also perfectly obvious. We must note first that every material object, every particle even, has its astral counterpart; and this counterpart is itself not a simple body, but is usually extremely complex, being composed of various kinds of astral matter. In addition to this each living creature is surrounded with an atmosphere of its own, usually called its aura, and in the case of human beings this aura forms of itself a very fascinating branch of study. It is seen as an oval mass of luminous mist of highly complex structure, and from its shape has sometimes been called the auric egg. Most brilliant and most easily seen of all, perhaps, though belonging to a more refined order of matter—the astral—is that aura which expresses by its vivid and ever-changing flashes of colour the different desires which sweep across the mans mind from moment to moment. This is the true astral body. Behind that, and consisting of a finer grade of matter again—that of the form-levels of the devachanic plane—lies the mental body or aura of the lower mind, whose colours, changing only by slow degrees as the person lives their life, show the trend of their thoughts and the disposition and character of their personality while still higher and infinitely more beautiful, where at all clearly developed, is the living light of the causal body, the vehicle of the higher self, which shows the stage of development of the real ego its passage from birth to birth. But to see these one must, of course, have developed the vision of the levels to which they belong. It will save one much trouble if one learns at once to regard these auras not as mere emanations, but as the actual manifestation of the ego on their respective planes—if one understands that it is the auric egg which is the real person, not the physical body which on this plane crystallizes in the middle of it. So long as the reincarnating ego remains upon the plane which is their true home in the formless levels, the vehicle which they inhabit is the causal body, but when they descend into the form-levels they must, in order to be able to function upon them, clothe themself in their matter; and the matter that they thus attract to themself furnishes their devachanic or mind-body. Similarly, descending into the astral plane they form their astral or desire-body out of its matter, though of course, still retaining all the other bodies, and on their still further descent to this lowest plane of all the physical body is formed in the midst of the auric egg, which thus contains the entire person.”
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