astral body
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Astral body — The Astral Sleep by Jeroen van Valkenburg The astral body is a subtle body posited by many religious philosophers, intermediate between the intelligent soul and the physical body, composed of a subtle material.[1] The concept ultimately derives… … Wikipedia
astral body — noun theosophy : a subtle counterpart of the physical human body accompanying but not usually separated from it in life and surviving its death compare kamarupa * * * 1. Astron. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body. 2. Theosophy. See… … Useful english dictionary
astral body — /ˈæstrəl bɒdi/ (say astruhl bodee) noun Theosophy a body separate from, but corresponding to, the human body and surviving it in death, but made of astral (def. 3) substance …
ASTRAL BODY — an ethereal body believed by the theosophists to invest the animal, to correspond to it, and to be capable of BILOCATION (q.v.) … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
astral body — any of the objects in the sky (stars, planets, the moon, etc.) … English contemporary dictionary
Astral projection — (or astral travel) is an esoteric interpretation of a type of out of body experience that assumes the existence of an astral body separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it. [… … Wikipedia
Astral plane — This article is about a plane of existence. In the context of Unicode, astral characters consist of planes above the Basic Multilingual Plane. The astral plane, also called the astral world, is a plane of existence postulated by classical… … Wikipedia
astral — Synonyms and related words: Buddhic body, Cynthian, Masan, airy, anagalactic, apparition, appearance, asomatous, asteroidal, astral body, astral spirit, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, banshee, bliss body,… … Moby Thesaurus
astral — a. pertaining to or like stars; heavenly; spiritual; of the non tangible substance of which astral body is composed. ♦ astral body, body of light, linked to the emotions and believed by theosophists and others to accompany physical body in… … Dictionary of difficult words
astral — astrally, adv. /as treuhl/, adj. 1. pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star shaped. 2. Biol. pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling an aster; having a discoid, radiate flower head. 3. Theosophy. noting a supersensible… … Universalium
