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THE ASTRAL BODY AND ETHERIC BODY 115
shorter positive and negative vibrations, and this is why the appearance of those vibrations outside the physical body-line are known as the "etheric double", which is the aura, depending upon the etheric power which the etheric body can send out and the brightness of the golden bowl or astral body, permitting greater ease in the transmission of those rays. The astral body can be used as a mirror to reflect disordered vibrations in the physical body, and this is how mediums and hypnotic subjects diagnose disease, anguish, and the general mental outlook of the individual.
Where the vibrations tend to neutralize, the negative long vibrations tend to curve in and contact the positive vibrations, causing "shortcircuiting" and the "aura" is dulled and "spotted" as shown on the Kilner screen.
A powerful static current of about 450,000 volts, played on to a metal laid on the body, down the spine and over the solar plexus, which is insulated from the body by effective insulation and earthing, contacts the "aura" or etheric double (which is the "tuning fork" of the body) and by causing the negative vibrations to contract, straightens them, and so prevents the "short-circuiting". This explains the beneficial effects of static treatment, if used properly.
