My Library

The scenery of these lower divisions, then, is that of the earth as we know it : but in reality it is also very much more ; for when looked at from this different standpoint, with the assistance of the astral senses, even purely physical objects present a very different appearance. As has already" been mentioned, they are seen by one whose eyes are fully opened, not as usual from one point of,view, but from all sides at once an idea in itself sufficiently confusing ; and when we add to this that every particle in the interior of a solid body is as fully and clearly visible as those on the outside, it will be comprehended that under such conditions even the most familiar objects may at first be totally unrecognizable.
Yet a moment’s consideration will show that such vision approximates much more closely to true perception than does physical sight. Looked at on the astral plane, for example, the sides bf a glass cube would all appear equal, as they really are, while on*the physical plane we see the further side in .perspective—that is, it appears smaller than the nearer side,