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Astral Vision
world. It is the force that gives life and also causes death. It is a pliant force as it were. It can be used for good, or evil. It is a great dynamo. It may be used for imparting life, or for the destruction of life. Vicious persons will use it to the injury of other people. Unconsciously persons harbouring thoughts of a lower nature will create a commotion in the astral substance, and vibrations so generated will be injurious to all around.
This force is very contagious and may be taken from one person to another. Persons will feel the influence but not know why they feel such and such inclinations, but because certain people generate certain vibrations in this astral ether, they cause similar vibrations in the astral bodies of other people, and the vibrations so generated react on the physical. Those astral vibrations will be interpreted and they will be acted upon by those people. That is the scientific reason why thoughts of an injurious or indifferent character should not be harboured by us. Such vibrations should always be positively good. A person will then be a repository of great and good forces.
It has many manifestations, and as it passes forth from our bodies, it manifests itself as human aura. All physical substance, not only that but all different planes of life, from the ordinary physical body to the highest spiritual form, manifest this for force, each in its own way.
All hatred, passion, and lust, all our emotions, are but the results and manifestations of this substance. It assumes the form of magnetism. The great adept in magnetism sends it out. If we do not know how it is sent out, it will always produce its result, just as truly as though we did know. If we do know how to send it out, if we desire to do well, it will always benefit all people. In the ordinary experience of hypnotism it goes from us transmitted through the eye, the voice or the fingers. That is the very reason why passes are required to be made in certain diseases, and why they must send forth a piercing glance from the eye. The
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