Trained in Rosicrucian philosophies, Rudolf Steiner taught that humans have several bodies: the physical body, the etheric body — which animates the physical body, the “I” or the ego, and the astral body.
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According to Steiner there are three different dimensional worlds existing together, the physical, the astral, and the spirit. He claimed that when you fall asleep, your astral body separates from the physical and drifts into the astral world, a realm that the astral body is native to, and that death is a complete version of this separation, followed by a retrospective review and ascension. He also taught that a person skilled at out-of-body states could enter into the astral realm at will.
In Tibetan Buddhist traditions there are six different dimensions of existence called Bardos, and because the Bardo of death and the Bardo of dreams are functionally identical, dream yoga is considered the ultimate rehearsal for death. If you can maintain lucidity within the chaos of your dreams, then you will have more clarity during the chaotic transitions of death. If you can master waking up in the Badro every night, what the West calls the astral realm, so that you are no longer a character in your dreams but fully awake, then when you die you’ll be able to awaken in the Bardo and avoid being unconsciously swept into another rebirth.
Born as Violet Firth, Dion Fortune was a practicing occultist and self-described psychic combatant.
She was trained in the Golden Dawn Hermetic traditions, and later founded her own order, the Society of the Inner Light. The core idea she taught was often summarized as, “as above, so below.” Reality is arranged in a hierarchy of planes and causation flows down, not up. Ideas, intentions, and archetypal forces take shape first on subtler planes, the astral plane being just before the physical. And so what we see in the physical world is a crystallization of processes that came from realms above. When you shift something in the astral world, it will manifest in the physical world.
In her 1930 book, Psychic Self-Defence, she describes serving with the forces of good in an endless fight within the astral realm against hostile occultists using their will in the dream world to manipulate physical reality. She wrote that the astral realm is a contested space that you can act in, and that your actions have a direct effect on the lower physical plane.
In the ceremonial magic of the Golden Dawn, the premise is that “thoughtforms” constructed in the astral plane will precipitate corresponding change on the physical plane. According to Theosophical beliefs, focused repeated thought can build stable astral structures that can then influence events and/or the minds of others. And a skilled clairvoyant can see these man made astral objects in the physical realm.
In Qabalah, causation is mapped through the Tree of Life, descending from Kether, the most high, down to Malkuth, the physical Earth realm. Mind and imagination operate on a plane causally upstream of matter, and disciplined imaginative focus, or acting out rituals, is how to intervene in physical outcomes before they happen.
The New Thought movement of the mid-1800s took all this knowledge, stripped out the ceremonial aspect, but kept the causality claim that thoughts become things. Neville Goddard taught that the world within, or the imaginal realm, causally precedes physical reality. By doing this he created both a secularized and Christianized version of “as above so below.”
Sleep-state affirmation/hypnagogic scripting is one of the most powerful principals that came out of the New Thought movement. Sleep and the hypnagogic threshold are treated as privileged access points to the “upstream” plane, whether that’s called the subconscious, the imagination, the astral, or the bardo. It is a plane where the ordinary waking mind, which might resist or doubt, is least active. The state you are in just before sleep is considered to be one of these access points, and so is the dream space.
[Via: gregreese.substack.com]