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ASTRAL FLUID
261 which renders such persons fine instruments for the control of spirits.
These beings, clothed with the same Astral element which forins the spiritual body of mortals, readily effect a rapport with the class of organisms we have described. This rapport, however, most generally transpires between the spirits who are in the nearest proximity to earth.
It must be remembered that the atmosphere is as full of spiritual life as the water is of animalculæ. The Astral fluid-the elements in which spirits live, and of which their external bodies are composed, permeates this atmosphere, like oceans of light, hence spiritual life is to this planet, what the soul is to the body, only that the strata of spiritual life nearest the earth are graduated from the spirits of those who are most in rapport with earth, to elementary beings, who in reality constitute no inconsiderable portion of the earth itself, hence it is, that mediumistic personssusceptible to the influences of varied life that swarms around them-are often moved by nameless and incomprehensible monitions of danger, the presence of evil, or the tendency to actions from which their own better natures and judgment would revolt.
The chief points of difference between. . .
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