THE ASTRAL WORLD/PART 10
CHAPTER X.
THE ASTRAL LIGHT.
IT
must not be supposed for a moment that the Astral is simply a plane of Nature
created for a place of temporary abode and development for souls which have
passed out of the physical body—a mere stopping place between reincarnations.
Important as are the planes of the Astral in the progress of the disembodied
souls, they form but one phase of the activities of this great plane of Nature.
Indeed, even eliminating the disembodied souls from the Astral, there would be
enough strange and wonderful phenomena on that plane, as well as enough
wonderful inhabitants and dwellers on some of its subplanes, to still render it
the place and region of interest that it always has been to occultists. Before
we finish our astral journey and return to earth life let us take a hasty
glance at these wonderful phases of astral phenomena and life.
THE
ASTRAL LIGHT. Changing our vibrations, we find ourselves
entering a strange region, the nature of which at first you fail to discern.
Pausing a moment until your astral vision becomes attuned to the peculiar
vibrations of this region, you find that you are becoming gradually aware of
what may be called an immense picture gallery, spreading out in all directions,
and apparently bearing a direct relation to every point of space on the surface
of the earth.
At
first you find it difficult to decipher the meaning of this great array of
pictures. The trouble arises from the fact that they are arranged not one after
the other in sequence on a flat plane, but rather in sequence, one after
another in a peculiar order which may be called the order of “X-ness in space,”
because it is neither the dimension of length, breadth, or depth—it is
practically the order of the fourth dimension of space, which cannot be
described in terms of ordinary spatial dimension.
Again,
you find, upon closely examining the pictures that they are very
minute—practically microscopic in size—and require the use of the peculiar
magnifying power of astral vision to bring them up to a size capable of being
recognized by your faculty of visual recognition.
The
astral vision, when developed, is capable of magnifying any object, material or
astral, to an enormous degree—for instance, the trained occultist is able to
perceive the whirling atoms and corpuscles of matter, by means of this
peculiarity of astral vision. Likewise, he is able to plainly perceive many
fine vibrations of light which are invisible to the ordinary sight. In fact,
the peculiar Astral Light which pervades this region is due to the power of the
astral vision to receive and register these fine vibrations of light.
Bring
this power of magnifying into operation, you will see that each of the little
points and details of the great world picture so spread before you in the
Astral Light is really a complete scene of a certain place on earth, at a
certain period in the history of the earth. It resembles one of the small views
in a series of moving pictures—a single view on the roll of film. It is fixed
and not in motion, and yet we can move forward along the fourth dimension, and
thus obtain a moving picture of the history of any point on the surface of the
earth, or even combine the various points into a larger moving picture in the
same way. Let us prove this by actual experiment.
Close
your eyes for a moment, while we travel back in time (so to speak) along the
series of these astral records—for, indeed, they travel back to the beginning
of the history of the earth. Now open your eyes! Looking around you, you
perceive the pictured representation of strange scenes filled with persons
wearing a peculiar garb—but all is still, no life, no motion.
Now,
let us move forward in time, at a much higher rate than that in which the
astral views were registered. You now see flying before you the great movement
of life on a certain point of space in a far distant age. From birth to death
you see the life of these strange people, all in the space of a few moments.
Great battles are fought, and cities rise before your eyes, all in a great
moving picture flying at a tremendous speed.
Now
stop, and then let us move backward in time, still gazing at the moving
pictures. You see a strange sight, like that of “reversing the film in a moving
picture. You see everything moving backward—cities crumbling into nothingness,
men rising from their graves, and growing younger each second until they are
finally born as babes—everything moving backward in time, instead of forward.
You
can thus witness any great historical event, or follow the career of any great
personage from birth to death—or backward. You will notice, moreover, that
everything is semi-transparent, and that accordingly, you can see the picture
of what is going on inside of buildings as well as outside of them. Nothing
escapes the Astral Light Records. Nothing can be concealed from it.
You
have gazed at the great World Picture in the Records of the Astral Light—the
great Akashic Records, as we Hindus call it. In these records are to be found
pictures of every single event, without exception, that has ever happened in
the history of the earth—recorded just exactly as it really happened, moreover,
the record being ultra-photographic and including the smallest detail.
By
travelling to a point in time, on the fourth dimension, you may begin at that
point, and see a moving picture of the history of any part of the earth from
that time on to the present— or you may reverse the sequence by travelling
backward, as we have seen. You may also travel in the Astral, on ordinary space
dimensions, and thus see what happened simultaneously all over the earth, at
any special moment of time, if you wish.
As a
matter of strict truth, however, I must inform you that the real records of the
past— the great Akashic Records—really exist on a much higher plane than the
Astral, and that which you have witnessed is but a reflection (practically
perfect, however) of the original records.
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