The Washington herald., 1913-07-27

some Of the Eastern adopts call the sub
tile body, and the writings attributed to
St Paul, call 1t . spiritual body q Cor,
Xv:A.
This Astral body Is composed by q con
densation Of the so-called interstellaf
ether and when sufficiently magnetized is
Sometimes seen As a ghost or apparitton
even by people who do not regard them
selves as clairvoyant. The same astral
body is utilized during many incarnations
and during many rests between incarna-
tions. 1t Is great folly and narrowness
to think of . human being as limited BY
cne birth and one death. that is to say
BY one incarnation, since We all have
passed through q great number Of incar-
nations in fleshly bodies and an equal
number of intermediate rests.
zone astral body has persisted through
II all. The astral body has no physical
eye or ear but its eyes and ears are the
ones you use even while in a physical
body. You could see and hear equally
we'll and better II the carnal body were
laid aside"
The writer explains that persons given
to the excessive use OF opium and liquor
frequently fall into the clairvoyant con-
dition. His words are as follows:
THE users Of opium and Of alcohol
often get ito a clairvoyant condition and.
as the clairvoyant attracts his own kind
to him, they are said to see and doubt
less do see horrible sights. For some ac-
count of these sights you can consult
Dante's Inferno" Milton's Paradise
Lost" and E. Swedenborg's Hell" These
and hundreds of other publications de-
scribe what their, authors actually saw.
The oldest compositions in existence, Ho-
mer's Iliad" and Odyssey" contain
vivid descriptions Of what may De seen by
US IL we care to- At ourselves to do SO.
They who represent such writings to be
imaginary. or poetic, or mythical are
blind ignoramuses who have never seen
anything themselves. blind leaders Of the
blind masses Of humanity"
Astral Connection Of Women,
Then caskadananda begins to talk Of
wonderful women, who are in such in
innate astral connection with you that
they can read the most secret thoughts
of your heart.
I'VE are acquainted with women who
can feel your. whole character and the
thoughts and intents Of your heart when
they come into proper astral connection
with you." he says. This they do SIM
uly by disengaging the mind from the
brain, throwing II into the astral body
and then uniting their astral bodies with
yours.
1T. is the easiest thing in the world to
sit close to a person whose head aches.
hold yourself negative and receptive till
your head aches, too. The writer has re-
peatedly taken on the aches and pains
Of other people. Doctors could II they
would take upon themselves all the symp-
toms Of their patients and know exactly
how the patiepts feel by feeling the same
way themselves. Some learned physicians
in Paris have done this. Many so-called
mental healers have done It and some
have been prostarted upon sick beds by
SO doing. One must know how to throw
on or destroy these conditions before he
can safely take them on. This has to be
done by tremendous will power"
Farther on the mysterious Caskadan-
anda tells the reader that saloons. stock
exchanges, churches, and scores Of
other places are haunted by the astral
bodies Of the persons who formerly fire.
quentsd them. He says:
1T having been explained that there
exist all about US intelligences that have
been in human bodies, as well as those
Of higher and Of lower estates the law
Of contact with them should be ex-
planned. Those persons who carry on
the business OF mediumship come into
contact with only . small group OF ex-
carnates.
That group Includes none higher than
human and only that small fraction Of