The Astral Body: Some sort of User’s Guide
Out of the temporary subtle bodies that we have also been given for our current incarnation, the astral body is perhaps the one who has caused the most controversy current incarnation, the astral body. It is a body that really needs our daily care and attention, as it is forever changing and unfortunately for most people, not for the much better.
It is the body during which we will spend a large part of our post- mortem life, yet not many folks are particularly interested in taking care of it properly, mainly because they don’t know its presence but also because they can’t know how interpret this signs that this wonderful body gives us on a daily basis.
Astral body is the seat of our emotional life and desire impulses, and for this motive is also called “emotional body”. We have developed this particular body during our evolution in the animal kingdom, as part of the evolutionary goal of our own animal brothers is to be able to strive towards individualization from their Group Soul, through the awareness of these individual needs and feelings.
In humans, where this individualization has already been achieved and is prominently proclaimed, the evolutionary goal is usually to refine these primal wants and impulses to unselfishness and ultimately to nonexistence. This takes several lifetimes of spiritual work upon the Path of Initiation to achieve, but we only need to learn a few key points as a way to perfect our astral body and make a big difference to the quality of our lives. In truth, the astral plane mainly because it is now (that is where the astral body operates) is man’s own creation.
As Alice Bailey wrote in her book “Esoteric Healing “: The astral plane doesn’t have any factual existence, but is an illusory creation from the human family. From now on, however (through the defeat from the forces of evil along with the disastrous setback suffered because of the Black Lodge), the astral plane will slowly become a dying creation, and in the final period of human history (inside the seventh root-race), it will become non-existent”.
This is good media, for we can mould and shape our astral body in any way we decide to; the bad news is that the complete disappearance of this plane is a considerable ways off.
So what is it that is stopping us from moving forward in our Evolution as Beings of Light and what can we do to refine each of our astral body?
Wouldn’t it be so much better to spend time directly within our mental body upon death and interact with Causal Plane entities rather then slowly shedding our astral counterpart from the illusion and coarseness that any of us have accumulated during our earthly lives?
There are a few things to note that will greatly speed up our evolution and choose this transition process so much simpler.
The quality and intensity of our emotions colour the nature of our astral body and determine its rate of vibration. Most people in simple fact, by letting their emotions run riot inside their lives, do great damage for the astral body they may have been given upon birth, and since it is the vehicle that they’ll find themselves in after physical death, they will end up inhabiting a weak and crippled Astral Body. Consequently, their transition from the Astral to the Causal Plane will be long along with toilsome.
This matter is much more serious than most people imagine. Emotions of a low vibratory rate for instance anger, envy, fear, guilt and greed as an example, coarsen our astral body towards extent that, if we do not find it hard to overcome these tendencies while in incarnation, we will end up inhabiting the minimum regions of the astral plane because we won’t be able to sustain the particular high vibratory rates regarding light of the Higher Astral, or otherwise called “The Summerland”. (for more info on the astral body see The Master Plan by MB Cooke)
The emotional body on most people is usually in dire need of healing, whether we are willing to admit it or not necessarily. There are certain afflictions which might be directly connected with a imbalance in the Astral Body and that are directed at us as daily simple guidelines or signs that our Astral Body is weak and that it more care and consideration from us.
These common complaints are varieties of indigestion, nervousness, liver and stomach problems, frequent nightmares (which tell us quite a lot about the lower elements of the astral plane that people visit during our sleep and so about the vibratory price and attractor fields your own astral vehicle). In short, anything related to your solar plexus chakra, the chakra of thoughts, as it is the of connection of the emotional body on the physical and it serves like a transmitter of its energies. The healing path to the Astral Body is through the 3rd chakra (the Solar Plexus), and an emphasis needs to be placed in governing and healing this chakra all through our lives.
The other main factor that contributes to the deterioration of our astral body whilst in incarnation would be the barbaric practice of the intake of dead flesh. This was thoroughly explained by Hilarion through Maurice B. Cooke (Threshold: a letter for Michelle, Hilarion, M.B.Cooke):
“The body of your slaughtered animal is fraught with a large amount of fear and desperation, which results in this contamination of its astral opposite number, both of the animal and of the one who ingests its flesh. After years of consuming this astral poison, the astral body from the person starts to weaken, due to the toxins ingested from the consumption of astral corpses. Soon the physical body will start to
mirror its astral vehicle and the person becomes unwell, as the astral infirmities are filtered down to the physical.
This causes death at an early on age than was foreseen for the soul. The rampant rise associated with colon cancer is directly proportional towards fouling of the colon by eating decayed skin; the stomach, as said earlier, being the first portal to the Astral Body. If man is what exactly he eats, then eating death by means of meat brings death itself closer.
The Karma that will be generated from slaughtering and inflicting pain upon the helpless Animal Kingdom (which was entrusted to care to further their evolution through love) can also be considerable and mustn’t be disregarded. The day that animals will not find a grave within a human stomach is a day of great enlightenment in addition to evolution for mankind”.
The consumption of liquor and nicotine is also detrimental for the sake of the astral body. As Theosophical literature states, if a man was much smoker, at death he can get himself literally paralysed due to toxic accumulation of your nicotine in his astral body and it will require some time before he is able to move his astral arms or legs.
Needless to say, the dangers derived from the ingestion of alcohol happen to be amply enumerated by Annie Besant in her pamphlet “The Influence of Alcohol”.
Hilarion has added that this substance is able to lodge its toxins inside the etheric and astral figures, causing them to grow to be frayed and weakened over the years. The over indulgence connected with alcohol causes a tear in the rear of the Anja or third eye chakra, which can induce the inhabitants of the lower astral planes to prey upon the vitality centers of the one who has thus abused it.
The astral body even so, has great regenerative powers provided that it is not constantly weakened through the ingestion of astral poison caused by the consumption of fear generated by youngster before it is wiped out, or by the harmful toxins of nicotine and alcohol consumption. If the person abstains in the ingestion of these substances to get a period of nine months, Hilarion says that the astral body has the ability to restore itself to the near perfect state. These changes gradually will filter right down to the physical and grow to be manifest and visible from our third dimensional amount.
One can clearly observe that the degree of health in our astral (and ultimately physical) is given by the products our thoughts and emotions and with what we ingest. Just by paying attention to the grade of our life we may experience a great improvement within the next.
