ASTRAL WORDS

The Astral Worlds


Astral Worlds are also known as Astral Planes, Astral Realms or Astral Spheres, sometimes also known as “the beyond”, “the afterlife” or the “fourth dimension”, to which people will transition soon after leaving the physical world.


We should start with the more general aspects of these planes of life and reality. It should be noted that the Astral Worlds are in effect the “fifth dimension”, with the length, width, height and time of the physical world being the first four dimensions.


As with all planes in the multi-dimensional continuum of the Universe, the Astral Planes are the density degrees of the Universe, The Source, God. The Astral Planes are therefore fundamental to the creation of everything that exists has ever existed and ever will exist in the physical world of matter in accordance with the principle of Correspondence, “as above, so below, as below, so above”, the “future” being relative to the temporal concepts of the measurement of time as perceived within the three dimensions – length, width and height, of the physical world.


The Astral Worlds are also the sphere of vibrations in which light, sound colour and rhythm, and thus all life and everything ever created, and ever will ever be created has its origin. Nothing can exist on Earth without first originating in the Astral Worlds. The Astral Worlds are therefore an emanation of the Eternal without beginning or end, and are therefore timeless, spaceless and infinite.


Most esoteric and occult traditions as well as organizations involved with the practice of “Spiritualism” usually consider the Astral Worlds to be the “fourth dimension”, “the beyond” or sometimes the “afterlife”. However there really is no such concept as “this life” and the “next life”, or “this world” and the “next world”, which is why “death” as people generally understand it quite simple does not exist, except as a fear in the Consciousness of Mind of most humans.


Learning the ability of Astral Projection will remove the fear of death completely, providing first –hand evidence of the reality of the Astral Worlds and the continuity of life beyond the confines of the temporal physical shell of body. It is this very lack of understanding of the illusion of “death” that has contributed in no small part to the state of the world as we witness it today.


Most people, being completely unaware of their own immortal, Divine Nature, live each life as if it was the only chance they will ever get to “exist”, and therefore as a direct result become steeped in the material illusion of the world of the five physical senses. When mankind finally re-discovers these realities, people will waste no opportunity to do everything they need to do of their own freewill in order to progress to the glories of the “heavenly” spheres of life, glories that are far and way beyond the comprehension of most people still living on Earth, worlds which are indeed true reality, our true home as Spiritual Beings as opposed to the physical illusion of Earth and indeed the entire physical Universe.


The Astral Worlds are home to a very wide variety of inhabitants in addition to humans. There are many beings and intelligencies that have never incarnated on Earth, and who’s task it is to assist in the evolution of mankind on Earth. There are also the beings of the single elements, many of which form the basis of earthly “fairy stories”. There are also the more simple beings of the elements known as “elementaries” which are much less advanced, but nevertheless do exhibit a degree of intelligence and have their role to play in the grand Universal scheme.


Also living within, or visiting the Astral Worlds are a very wide variety of beings of all levels and intelligencies, most of which are beyond the comprehension of the earthly man, including beings originating from other planets in the Universe. In the Astral Worlds there are many degrees of Energy, of vibration at which life exists, everyone and everything existing at a particular degree of vibration exhibiting similar characteristics.


In the Mid-Astral Worlds, at the level of vibration where the most decent people currently find themselves after physical death, existence is one of piece, harmony and tranquility, often in very stark contrast to the previous existence within the physical world of the Earth life system. These Astral Worlds also seem much lighter, solid and “real” than the physical world, which by comparison seems to be a very dull, murky, oppressive place indeed.


As we understand, there are many levels of vibration and comparative density of the Astral Worlds, all of which exhibit there own unique Energy. A human being, indeed any being will after physical death automatically transition to the most appropriate Astral World, most closely matching his or her own particular vibration, ego, temperament, character and most importantly the beliefs and attitudes of the person at the time of the physical “death”. If a person is Open-Minded and fully understands the process erroneously known as “death”, and assuming their previous life has been a normal and decent one, they will effortlessly transition to the light, peace and harmony of the Mid-Astral Worlds. More spiritually advanced people will transition to the inner Astral Worlds where conditions are even more blissful and beyond the comprehension of most people still living in the physical world of matter.


Now, we take a closer look at the various levels of the Astral Worlds, the Astral Planes in more detail. It is important to once again stress there are no actual definitive borders or boundaries between the various Astral Planes. The entire Universe from The Prime Creator , The First Cause, God is a continuum, consisting of vibration, Energy, from the very highest level of the Source down to the very lowest of the physical world of matter. All Astral Planes form an integral, lower aspect of this vast and infinite Energy continuum.


When we talk about the “inner worlds” of the Astral and Mental Planes, the Spirit Worlds, these really are inner worlds or planes relative to the physical Universe. The multi-dimensional Universe can be likened to a sphere with the physical Universe being the outermost and thinnest layer and which can be likened to a “skin”, and “epidermis”, an outer “shell”, within which sphere everything else in creation exists with The Source, The First Cause, God at the very center of creation. The Quantum Physicist David Bohm most appropriately referred to the physical Universe of matter, the outermost aspect of the multi-dimensional Universe as “frozen light”. The physical Universe is indeed “frozen light”, the very lowest vibration and highest density manifestation of Energy of the Primordial Light of God from whom everything was created in the beginning.


As human beings are Spiritually made in the “true image of God”, and therefore of the Universe, each finer, subtle body of a human being, the microcosm, are also “inner bodies”. The physical human body, as with the Universe as a whole, the macrocosm, is the outer shell, and each successive body, the Etheric, Astral and Mental bodies are all progressively inner levels of vibration and lower density, being equivalent to the level of the Universal continuum, in other words the sphere, world, plane, dimension at which they exist. This is why meditation and similar disciplines are considered to be forms of “inner exploration”.


Collected from the Articles of Adrian Cooper.