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Theosophical readers will hear with pleasure that even at the early stage of his development at which the pupil begins to acquire this fuller sight, he is able to assure himself by direct observation of the accuracy • of the teaching given through our great »founder, Madame Blavatsky, on the subject of some at least of the"seven principles of man.” In regarding his fellowman he no longer sees only his outer appearance ; almost exactly coextensive with that physical body he clearly distinguishes the etheric double ; while the universal life-fluid as it is absorbed and specialized, as it circulates in rosy light throughout the body, as it eventually radiates from the health}' person in its altered form, is alsb perfectly obvious.
Most brilliant and most easily seen of all, perhaps^ though belonging to a fnore refined order of matter—the astral—-is that aura which expresses by its vivid and*ever- changing flashes of colour the different desires which sweep across the man’s mind from moment to moment. This is the true astraP body. Behind that, and consisting of a finer grade of matter