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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Human Aura + Astral Colors and Thought Forms + +Author: Swami Panchadasi + +Release Date: September 23, 2007 [EBook #22739] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUMAN AURA *** + + + + +Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Annika Feilbach and the +booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page1" id="page1"></a>[<a href="./images/1.png">1</a>]</span></p> + +<p class="centre"><i>True Occult Knowledge Gives You Practical +Power and Strength</i></p> + + +<h1>The<br /> +HUMAN AURA</h1> + +<h2>Astral Colors and Thought Forms</h2> + +<div class="centre"> +<img src="images/symbol.jpg" +alt="Symbol" +title="Symbol" /> +</div> + +<h3><i>By</i></h3> +<h2><i>SWAMI PANCHADASI</i></h2> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page2" id="page2"></a>[<a href="./images/2.png">2</a>]</span></p> + +<p class="centre">Printed by<br /> +YOGA PUBLICATION SOCIETY</p> + +<p class="centre">COPYRIGHT, 1940</p> + +<p class="centre">COPYRIGHT<br /> +1912<br /> +YOGI PUBLICATION SOCIETY</p> + + + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page3" id="page3"></a>[<a href="./images/3.png">3</a>]</span></p> + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + + +<p><a href="#chapteri">Chapter I. What Is the Human Aura</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page5">5</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>The subtle, invisible emanation radiating from every individual. +An ethereal radiation. The egg-shaped human nebula. Psychic +atmosphere sensed by everyone, but seen by but few. The clairvoyant +vision. The phosphorescent flame, and luminous cloud. +The colors in the aura and what they mean. Effect of mental +states, emotion and passion, upon its aura. The human aura +is a very important and interesting phase of every personality. +The finer forces, the most powerful.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chapterii">Chapter II. The Prana Aura</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page15">15</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>Prana, the Vital Force, Life Essence. How it affects the +human aura. Health Aura. Physical Aura. Health Magnetism. +Peculiar appearance of Prana Aura. How animals follow trails of +Prana Aura particles. The tiny electric sparks, and vibratory movements. +How one may perceive the vibrations of Prana Aura. +Interesting experiments. Seeing Prana Aura by ordinary vision. +Prana Aura and Magnetic Healing.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chapteriii">Chapter III. The Astral Colors</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page23">23</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>Each mental or emotional state has its own astral hue, tint, +shade or color. The Primary Colors, Red, Blue and Yellow. The +Secondary Colors, Green, Orange and Purple. The combinations +of Olive, Russet and Citrine. Black and White, and how formed. +Key to the Astral Colors. Red the Physical Color; Blue, the +Spiritual; Yellow, the Mental. White and Black the two poles +of Spirituality. Rainbow astral colors. Whirlpools of flame. +Flashes of astral light. A wonderful phenomena. Practice will +enable almost everyone to perceive plainly the outlines of the +Prana Aura.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chapteriv">Chapter IV. The Astral Colors (Continued)</a> +<span class="tocnum"><a href="#page31">31</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>Interpretations of the Astral Color Group. The Red Group. +The varying reds of vitality and health; the shades of love; high +and low; the crimson of sensuality; the scarlet plane of anger +and passion. The Yellow Group of Orange, and the Pride of Intellect. +The Golden Yellow of Intellectual Attainment. The +haloes of the great teachers. The lemon hue of inferior intellect. +The Green Group. The high and low greens. The green of love +of nature. The green of Altruism. The green of sympathy. The +dull green of insincerity and deceit. The ruddy green of Jealousy +and malice. The Blue Group. The great souls of the spiritual and +religious emotions. The Brown Group. The Gray Group. Black +Group. White Group. The Great White light.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chapterv">Chapter V. The Aura Kaleidoscope</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page39">39</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>What the astral body is composed of. Also the etheric double. +The ever changing clouds of aura coloring. Placid scenes and +furious storms of the Aura. Opalescent effects. The pearly color +of the etheric substance. The Aura of mental activity. The +Aura of reverie or sleep. The Aura of anger and passion. The +Aura of hate. The Aura of love. The Aura of churches, prisons, +hospitals and places of vice. The Aura of character and of +passing feeling. Astral atmospheres of buildings and places. +Collective and composite auras. A key to some great and deep +occult teachings, and esoteric mysteries. How the trained occultist +is able to ascertain the character, and tendencies of a person.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page4" id="page4"></a>[<a href="./images/4.png">4</a>]</span></p> + +<p><a href="#chaptervi">Chapter VI. Thought Form</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page47">47</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>What a Thought Form is and what it is made of. How Thought +Forms are created. How Thought Forms travel. How Thought +Forms affect persons. Why some Thought Forms are semi-living, +elemental forces. Various forms and classes of Thought Forms. +Full description of their character, appearance and effect. Thought +Form whirls and swirls. Rotation Thought Forms. Thought +Form whirlpools. Explosive Thought Forms. Thought Form +bombs. Octopus Thought Form. How Thought Forms are projected +and why they travel. A wonderful study of a fascinating +subject.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chaptervii">Chapter VII. Psychic Influence of Color</a> +<span class="tocnum"><a href="#page55">55</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>Action and Re-action. Effect of Color on Mental States and +Emotions. How certain tints affect persons favorably and unfavorably. +The calming effect of restful greens. "Seeing Red." +Gloomy Black. Depressing Grays. Angry Reds. Soothing Blues. +Illuminating Yellows. The Psychology of Color. Healing Effect +of Colors. The principles of Healing by Colors. Effect of color +upon character and morals. Color in Child Life. Interesting and +instructive information and teaching.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chapterviii">Chapter VIII. Auric Magnetism</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page63">63</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>Human Magnetism. The Auric Reservoir of Magnetism. Magnetic +Healing, how caused and why it occurs. Use of its hands. +Flow of etheric force. New Methods of Magnetic Healing. Use +of Auric Colors. Analysis and Full Explanation. Absent treatment +by Auric Color Vibration. Tables of Auric Healing Colors, +showing effect on Nervous System, Blood and Organs. Helpful +suggestion in Auric Color Healing. How to Treat yourself and +others by this method. Healing by the Great White Light.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chapterix">Chapter IX. Developing the Aura</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page71">71</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>How to build up a strong, positive Aura. How to flood the +Aura with the right vibration. How to influence the color in the +Aura. "Holding the Thought." Reflecting Color States. Principles +of Occult Color Re-action. Self-analysis. Self-Treatment +for Character and Qualities. Effect of visualizing colors. +How to get the keynote of Color vibrations. The Key of Success.</p> +</div> + + +<p><a href="#chapterx">Chapter X. The Protective Aura</a><span class="tocnum"><a href="#page79">79</a></span></p> + +<div class="summary"> +<p>A forbidden subject plainly discussed. Need of Occult protection. +How to change the Aura so that it will repel physical contagion +and psychic attacks. How to Guard the body by Auric +Colors. How to energize and illumine the mind, so as to protect +against mental influences. The protective Golden Aura. How +to protect your emotional nature from undesirable vibrations. The +Great Auric Circle of Protection. The oldest occultist's instructions +regarding building up of the protective Aura. How to fill +the aura with vibrations of health and physical strength. How +to protect yourself from the low passions and feelings of others. +The Aura of great moral teachers. How those in ignorance of +occult laws have been led from the moral path. The Auric Circle +of Protection. The crumbs of teaching scattered through this book, +other than those concerning the Aura. Those for whom these +teachings are intended will recognize and appreciate them. A +shelter for soul, mind and body against psychic influence. An +infallible Armor against all force of attack. The Great White +Light. Words from the Master.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page5" id="page5"></a>[<a href="./images/5.png">5</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapteri" id="chapteri"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> + +<h3>WHAT IS THE HUMAN AURA?</h3> + + +<p>The above question is frequently asked +the student of occultism by some one +who has heard the term but who is +unfamiliar with its meaning. Simple as the +question may seem, it is by no means easy +to answer it, plainly and clearly in a few +words, unless the hearer already has a general +acquaintance with the subject of occult +science. Let us commence at the beginning, +and consider the question from the point of +view of the person who has just heard the +term for the first time.</p> + +<p>The dictionaries define the word aura as: +"Any subtle, invisible emanation or exhalation." +The English authorities, as a rule, attribute +the origin of the word to a Latin term +meaning "air," but the Hindu authorities insist +that it had its origin in the Sanscrit root +<i>Ar</i>, meaning the spoke of a wheel, the significance +being perceived when we remember the +fact that the human aura radiates from the +body of the individual in a manner similar to +the radiation of the spokes of a wheel from +the hub thereof. The Sanscrit origin of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page6" id="page6"></a>[<a href="./images/6.png">6</a>]</span> +term is the one preferred by occultists, although +it will be seen that the idea of an +aerial emanation, indicated by the Latin root, +is not foreign to the real significance of the +term.</p> + +<p>Be the real origin of the term what it may, +the idea of the human aura is one upon which +all occultists are in full agreement and harmony, +and the mention of which is found in +all works upon the general subject of occultism. +So we shall begin by a consideration of +the main conception thereof, as held by all +advanced occultists, ancient and modern, omitting +little points of theoretical variance between +the different schools.</p> + +<p>Briefly, then, the human aura may be described +as a fine, ethereal radiation or emanation +surrounding each and every living human +being. It extends from two to three feet, in +all directions, from the body. It assumes an +oval shape—a great egg-shaped nebula surrounding +the body on all sides for a distance +of two or three feet. This aura is sometimes +referred to, in ordinary terms, as the "psychic +atmosphere" of a person, or as his "magnetic +atmosphere."</p> + +<p>This atmosphere or aura is apparent to a +large percentage of persons in the sense of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page7" id="page7"></a>[<a href="./images/7.png">7</a>]</span> +the psychic awareness generally called "feeling," +though the term is not a clear one. The +majority of persons are more or less aware +of that subtle something about the personality +of others, which can be sensed or felt in a +clear though unusual way when the other +persons are near by, even though they may +be out of the range of the vision. Being outside +of the ordinary range of the five senses, +we are apt to feel that there is something +queer or uncanny about these feelings of projected +personality. But every person, deep in +his heart, knows them to be realities and admits +their effect upon his impressions regarding +the persons from whom they emanate. +Even small children, infants even, perceive +this influence, and respond to it in the matter +of likes and dislikes.</p> + +<p>But, human testimony regarding the existence +and character of the human aura does not +stop with the reports of the psychic senses to +which we have just referred. There are +many individuals of the race—a far greater +percentage than is generally imagined—who +have the gift of psychic sight more or less developed. +Many persons have quite a well-developed +power of this kind, who do not +mention it to their acquaintances for fear of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page8" id="page8"></a>[<a href="./images/8.png">8</a>]</span> +ridicule, or of being thought "queer." In addition +to these persons, there are here and +there to be found well-developed, clear-sighted, +or truly clairvoyant persons, whose powers of +psychic perception are as highly developed as +are the ordinary senses of the average individual. +And, the reports of these persons, far +apart in time and space though they may be, +have always agreed on the main points of +psychic phenomena, particularly in regards to +the human aura.</p> + +<p>To the highly developed clairvoyant vision, +every human being is seen as surrounded by +the egg-shaped aura of two or three feet in +depth, more dense and thick in the portion +nearest the body, and then gradually becoming +more tenuous, thin and indistinct as the +distance from the body is increased. By the +psychic perception, the aura is seen as a +luminous cloud—a phosphorescent flame—deep +and dense around the centre and then +gradually shading into indistinctness toward +the edges. As a matter of fact, as all developed +occultists know, the aura really extends +very much further than even the best clairvoyant +vision can perceive it, and its psychic +influence is perceptible at quite a distance in +many cases. In this respect it is like any<span class="pagenum"><a name="page9" id="page9"></a>[<a href="./images/9.png">9</a>]</span> +flame on the physical plane—it gradually fades +into indistinctness, its rays persisting far beyond +the reach of the vision, as may be proved +by means of chemical apparatus, etc.</p> + +<p>To the highly developed clairvoyant vision, +the human aura is seen to be composed of all +the colors of the spectrum, the combinations +of colors differing in various persons, and +constantly shifting in the case of every person. +These colors reflect the mental (particularly +the emotional) states of the person in +whose aura they are manifested. Each mental +state has its own particular combination +formed from the few elementary colors which +represent the elementary mental conditions. +As the mind is ever shifting and changing its +states, it follows that there will ever be a +corresponding series of shifting changes in +the colors of the human aura.</p> + +<p>The shades and colors of the aura present +an ever changing kaleidoscopic spectacle, of +wonderful beauty and most interesting character. +The trained occultist is able to read the +character of any person, as well as the nature +of his passing thoughts and feelings, by simply +studying the shifting colors of his aura. +To the developed occultist the mind and character<span class="pagenum"><a name="page10" id="page10"></a>[<a href="./images/10.png">10</a>]</span> +become as an open book, to be studied +carefully and intelligently.</p> + +<p>Even the student of occultism, who has not +been able to develop the clairvoyant vision to +such a high degree, is soon able to develop the +sense of psychic perception whereby he is able +to at least "feel" the vibrations of the aura, +though he may not see the colors, and thus be +able to interpret the mental states which have +caused them. The principle is of course the +same, as the colors are but the outward appearance +of the vibrations themselves, just +as the ordinary colors on the physical plane +are merely the outward manifestation of vibration +of matter.</p> + +<p>But it must not be supposed that the human +aura is always perceived in the appearance of +a luminous cloud of ever-changing color. +When we say that such is its characteristic +appearance, we mean it in the same sense that +we describe the ocean as a calm, deep body of +greenish waters. We know, however, that at +times the ocean presents no such appearance, +but, instead, is seen as rising in great mountainous +waves, white capped, and threatening +the tiny vessels of men with its power. Or +again, we may define the word "flame" in the +sense of a steady bright stream of burning<span class="pagenum"><a name="page11" id="page11"></a>[<a href="./images/11.png">11</a>]</span> +gas, whereas, we know only too well, that the +word also indicates the great hot tongues of +fiery force that stream out from the windows +of a burning building, and lick to destruction +all with which it comes in contact.</p> + +<p>So it is with the human aura. At times it +may be seen as a beautiful, calm, luminous atmosphere, +presenting the appearance of a +great opal under the rays of the sun. Again, +it blazes like the flames of a great furnace, +shooting forth great tongues of fire in this +direction and that, rising and falling in great +waves of emotional excitement, or passion, or +perhaps whirling like a great fiery maelstrom +toward its centre, or swirling in an outward +movement away from its centre. Again it +may be seen as projecting from its depths +smaller bodies or centres of mental vibration, +which like sparks from a furnace detach themselves +from the parent flame, and travel far +away in other directions—these are the projected +thought-forms of which all occultists +are fond of speaking and which make plain +many strange psychic occurrences.</p> + +<p>So, it will be seen, the human aura is a very +important and interesting phase of the personality +of every individual. The psychic phase +of man is as much the man himself as is the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page12" id="page12"></a>[<a href="./images/12.png">12</a>]</span> +physical phase—the complete man being made +up of the two phases. Man invisible is as +much the real man as is man visible. As the +finer forms of nature are always the most +powerful, so is the psychic man more potent +than the physical man.</p> + +<p>In this book, I speak of the human aura, +and its colors, as being perceived by astral or +clairvoyant vision, for this is the way in which +it is perceived and studied by the occultist. +The occult teaching is that, in the evolution +of the race, this astral vision will eventually +become the common property of every human +being—it so exists even now, and needs only +development to perfect it.</p> + +<p>But modern physical science is today offering +corroborative proof (though the same is +not needed by the occultist who has the astral +vision) to the general public, of the existence +of the human aura. In Europe, especially, a +number of scientists have written on the subject +of the aura, and have described the result +of the experiments in which the aura has been +perceived, and even photographed, by means +of fluorescent screens, such as are used in +taking X-Ray photographs, etc. Leading +authorities in England, France, and still more +recently, in Germany, have reported the discovery<span class="pagenum"><a name="page13" id="page13"></a>[<a href="./images/13.png">13</a>]</span> +(!) of a nebulous, hazy, radio-active energy +or substance, around the body of human +beings. In short, they now claim that every +human being is radio-active, and that the +auric radiation may be registered and perceived +by means of a screen composed of certain +fluorescent material, interposed between +the eye of the observer, and the person observed.</p> + +<p>This aura, so discovered (!) by the scientists, +is called by them the "human atmosphere," +and is classified by them as similar to +the radiations of other radio-active substances, +radium, for instance. They have failed +to discover color in this atmosphere, however, +and know nothing, apparently, of the relation +between auric colors and mental and emotional +states, which are so familiar to every +advanced occultist. I mention this fact merely +as a matter of general interest and information +to the student, and not as indicating, +even in the slightest degree, any idea on my +part that the old occult teaching, and the observed +phenomena accompanying the same, +regarding the human aura, require any proof +or backing up on the part of material scientists. +On the contrary, I feel that material +science should feel flattered by the backing<span class="pagenum"><a name="page14" id="page14"></a>[<a href="./images/14.png">14</a>]</span> +up by occult science of the new discovery (!) +of the "human atmosphere." A little later on, +material science may also discover (!) the +auric colors, and announce the same to the +wondering world, as a new truth.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page15" id="page15"></a>[<a href="./images/15.png">15</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapterii" id="chapterii"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> + +<h3>THE PRANA-AURA.</h3> + + +<p>Many writers on the subject of the +human aura content themselves with +a description of the colors of the mental +or emotional aura, and omit almost any +reference whatsoever to the basic substance +or power of the aura. This is like the play of +Hamlet, with the character of Hamlet omitted, +for, unless we understand something concerning +the fundamental substance of which +the aura is composed, we cannot expect to +arrive at a clear understanding of the phenomena +which arises from and by reason of +the existence of this fundamental substance. +We might as well expect a student to understand +the principles of color, without having +been made acquainted with the principles of +light.</p> + +<p>The fundamental substance of which the +human aura is composed is none other than +that wonderful principle of nature of which +one reads so much in all occult writings, which +has been called by many names, but which is +perhaps best known under the Sanscrit term,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page16" id="page16"></a>[<a href="./images/16.png">16</a>]</span> +<i>Prana</i>, but which may be thought of as Vital +Essence, Life Power, etc.</p> + +<p>It is not necessary in this book to go into +the general consideration of the nature and +character of Prana. It is sufficient for us to +consider it in its manifestation of Vital Force, +Life Essence, etc. In its broadest sense, +Prana really is the Principle of Energy in +Nature, but in its relation to living forms it is +the Vital Force which lies at the very basis +of manifested Life. It exists in all forms of +living things, from the most minute microscopic +form up to living creatures on higher +planes, as much higher than man as man is +higher than the simple microscopic life-forms. +It permeates them all, and renders possible all +life activity and functioning.</p> + +<p>Prana is not the mind or the soul, but is +rather the force or energy through which the +soul manifests activity, and the mind manifests +thought. It is the steam that runs the +physical and mental machinery of life. It is +the substance of the human aura, and the +colors of mental states are manifested in that +substance, just as the colors of chemical +bodies are manifested in the substance of +water. But Prana is not material substance—it +is higher than mere matter, being the underlying<span class="pagenum"><a name="page17" id="page17"></a>[<a href="./images/17.png">17</a>]</span> +substance of Energy or Force in Nature.</p> + +<p>While it is true, as we have seen, that all +auras are composed of the substance of Prana, +it is likewise true that there is a simple and +elementary form of auric substance to which +occultists have given the simple name of the +prana-aura in order to distinguish it from the +more complex forms and phases of the human +aura. The simplicity of the character of the +prana-aura causes it to be more readily sensed +or perceived than is possible in the case of +the more complex phases or forms of the aura. +For whereas it is only the more sensitive organisms +that can distinguish the finer vibrations +of the mental and emotional aura, and +only the clairvoyant sight which can discern +its presence by its colors, almost any person, +by a little careful experimenting, may become +aware of the presence of the prana-aura, not +only in the way of "feeling" it, but in many +cases of actually seeing it with the ordinary +vision rightly directed.</p> + +<p>That which is known as the prana-aura is +of course the most simple form or phase of the +human aura. It is the form or phase which is +more closely bound up with the physical body, +and is less concerned with the mental states. +This fact has caused some writers to speak of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page18" id="page18"></a>[<a href="./images/18.png">18</a>]</span> +it as the "health aura," or "physical aura," +both of which terms are fittingly applied as +we shall see, although we prefer the simpler +term we have used here, i. e., the prana-aura. +For the prana-aura does show the state of the +health of the individual radiating it, and it +also really contains physical power and magnetism +which may be, and is imparted to +others.</p> + +<p>The basic prana-aura is practically colorless, +that is to say, it is about the color of the clearest +water or a very clear diamond. By the clairvoyant +vision it is seen to be streaked or marked +by very minute, bristle-like lines, radiating +outward from the physical body of the individual, +in a manner very like "the quills upon the +fretful porcupine," as Shakespeare puts it. +In the case of excellent physical health, these +bristle-like streaks are stiff and brittle-looking, +whereas, if the general health of the person +be deficient these bristle-like radiations +seem to be more or less tangled, twisted, or +curly; and, in some cases present a drooping +appearance, and in extreme cases present the +appearance of soft, limp fur.</p> + +<p>It may interest the student to know that +minute particles of this prana-aura, or vital +magnetism, is sloughed off the body in connection<span class="pagenum"><a name="page19" id="page19"></a>[<a href="./images/19.png">19</a>]</span> +with physical exhalations such as +scent, etc., and remain in existence for some +time after the person has passed from the particular +place at which they were cast off. In +fact, as all occultists know, it is these particles +of the prana-aura which serve to give +vitality to the "scent" of living creatures, +which enables dogs and other animals to trace +up the track of the person, or animal, for a +long time after the person has passed. It is +not alone the physical odor, which must be +very slight as you will see upon a moment's +consideration. It is really the presence of the +particles of the prana-aura which enables the +dog to distinguish the traces of one person +among that of thousands of others, and the +feat is as much psychical as physical.</p> + +<p>Another peculiarity of the prana-aura is +that it is filled with a multitude of extremely +minute sparkling particles, resembling tiny +electric sparks, which are in constant motion. +These sparks, which are visible to persons of +only slightly developed psychic power, impart +a vibratory motion to the prana-aura which, +under certain conditions is plainly visible to +the average person. This vibratory movement +is akin to the movement of heated air arising<span class="pagenum"><a name="page20" id="page20"></a>[<a href="./images/20.png">20</a>]</span> +from a hot stove, or from the heated earth on +a mid-summer day.</p> + +<p>If the student will close his eyes partially, +until he peers out from narrowed lids, and +then will closely observe some very healthy +person sitting in a dim light, he may perceive +this undulating, pulsing vibration extending +an inch or two from the surface of the body. +It requires some little knack to recognize these +vibrations, but a little practice will often give +one the key; and after the first recognition, the +matter becomes easy.</p> + +<p>Again, in the case of persons of active brains, +one may perceive this pulsating prana-aura +around the head of the person, particularly +when he is engaged in concentrated active +thought. A little practice will enable almost +any one to perceive faintly the dim outlines of +the prana-aura around his own fingers and +hand, by placing his hand against a black +background, in a dim light, and then gazing at +it with narrowed eye-lids, squinting if necessary. +Under these circumstances, after a little +practice, one will be apt to perceive a tiny +outlined aura, or radiation, or halo, of pale +yellowish light surrounding the hand.</p> + +<p>By extending the fingers, fan shape, you<span class="pagenum"><a name="page21" id="page21"></a>[<a href="./images/21.png">21</a>]</span> +will perceive that each finger is showing its +own little outlined prana-aura. The stronger +the vital force, the plainer will be the perception +of the phenomenon. Often the prana-aura, +in these experiments, will appear like the +semi-luminous radiance surrounding a candle +flame or gas light. Under the best conditions, +the radiation will assume an almost phosphorescent +appearance. Remember, this is +simply a matter of trained ordinary sight,—not +clairvoyant vision.</p> + +<p>This prana-aura is identical with human +magnetism, which is employed in ordinary +magnetic healing. That is to say it is the +outer manifestation of the wonderful pranic +force. It is felt when you shake hands, or +otherwise come in close physical contact with +a strongly magnetic person. On the other +hand it is what the weakly, human vampire-like +persons unconsciously, or consciously, +try to draw off from strong persons, if the +latter allow them so to do from want of knowledge +of self protection. Who has not met +persons of this kind, who seem to sap one's +very life force away from him? Remember, +then, that the prana-aura is the aura or radiation +of life force, or vital power, which is the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page22" id="page22"></a>[<a href="./images/22.png">22</a>]</span> +steam of your living activity, physical and +mental. It is the pouring out of the vital +"steam" which is running your vital machinery. +Its presence indicates Life—its absence Lifelessness</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page23" id="page23"></a>[<a href="./images/23.png">23</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapteriii" id="chapteriii"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> + +<h3>THE ASTRAL COLORS.</h3> + + +<p>The term "astral," so frequently employed +by all occultists, is difficult to +explain or define except to those who +have pursued a regular course of study in +occult science. For the purpose of the present +consideration, it is enough to say that over +and above the ordinary physical sense plane +there is another and more subtle plane, +known as the Astral Plane. Every human being +possesses the innate and inherent faculty +of sensing the things of this astral plane, by +means of an extension or enlargement of the +powers of the ordinary senses, so to speak. +But, in the majority of persons in the present +stage of development, these astral senses are +lying dormant, and only here and there do we +find individuals who are able to sense on the +astral plane, although in the course of evolution +the entire race will be able to do so, of +course. The colors of the human aura, mentioned +in the preceding two chapters, and +which arise from the various mental and emotional +states, belong to the phenomena of the +astral plane, and hence bear the name of "the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page24" id="page24"></a>[<a href="./images/24.png">24</a>]</span> +astral colors." Belonging to the astral plane, +and not to the ordinary physical plane, they +are perceived only by the senses functioning +on the astral plane, and are invisible to the +ordinary physical plane sight. But, to those +who have developed the astral sight, or clairvoyance, +these colors are as real as are the +ordinary colors to the average person, and +their phenomena have been as carefully recorded +by occult science as have the physical +plane colors by physical science. The fact +that to the ordinary physical senses they are +invisible, does not render them any the less +real. Remember, in this connection, that to +the blind man our physical colors do not exist. +And, for that matter, the ordinary colors do +not exist to "color blind" persons. The ordinary +physical plane person is simply "color +blind" to the astral colors—that's all.</p> + +<p>On the astral plane each shade of mental or +emotional state has its corresponding astral +color, the latter manifesting when the form +appears. It follows then, of course, that when +once the occultist has the key to this color +correspondence, and thus is able to perceive +the astral colors by means of his astral vision, +he also is able to read the mental and emotional +states of any person within the range<span class="pagenum"><a name="page25" id="page25"></a>[<a href="./images/25.png">25</a>]</span> +of his vision, as easily as you are now reading +the printed words of this book.</p> + +<p>Before proceeding to a consideration of the +list of astral colors in the human aura, I wish +to call your attention to a slight variation in +the case of the prana-aura, of which I have +spoken in our last chapter. I have stated +therein that the prana-aura is colorless like +a diamond or clear water. This is true in the +average case, but in the case of a person of +very strong physical vitality or virility, the +prana-aura takes on, at times, a faint warm +pink tinge, which is really a reflection from +the red astral color, of the meaning of which +color you shall now learn.</p> + +<p>Like their physical plane counterparts, all +the astral colors are formed from three Primary +Colors, namely (1) Red; (2) Blue; and +(3) Yellow. From these three primary colors, +all other colors are formed. Following the +Primary Colors, we find what are known as +the Secondary Colors, namely: (1) Green, derived +from a combination of Yellow and Blue; +(2) Orange, formed from a combination of +Yellow and Red; and (3) Purple, formed +from a combination of Red and Blue. Further +combinations produce the other colors, +as for instance, Green and Purple form Olive;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page26" id="page26"></a>[<a href="./images/26.png">26</a>]</span> +Orange and Purple form Russet; Green and +Orange form Citrine.</p> + +<p>Black is called an absence of color, while +White is really a harmonious blending of all +colors, strange as this may appear to one +who has not studied the subject. The blending +of the Primary Colors in varied proportions +produce what is known as the "hues" of +color. Adding white to the hues, we obtain +"tints;" while mixing Black produces "shades." +Strictly speaking Black and White are known +as "neutral" colors.</p> + +<p>Now for the meaning of the astral colors—that +is, the explanation of the mental or emotional +state represented by each. I ask that +the student familiarize himself with the +meaning of the Primary Colors and their combinations. +A clear understanding of the key +of the astral colors is often an aid in the +development of astral sight.</p> + + +<h4>KEY TO THE ASTRAL COLORS.</h4> + +<p>RED. Red represents the physical phase +of mentality. That is to say, it stands for +that part of the mental activities which are +concerned with physical life. It is manifested +by the vitality of the body, and in other hues,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page27" id="page27"></a>[<a href="./images/27.png">27</a>]</span> +tints and shades, is manifested by passions, +anger, physical cravings, etc. I shall describe +the various forms of Red manifestation, a +little later on.</p> + +<p>BLUE. Blue represents the religious, or +spiritual, phase of mentality. That is to say, +it stands for that part of the mental activities +which are concerned with high ideals, altruism, +devotion, reverence, veneration, etc. It +is manifested, in its various hues, tints, and +shades, by all forms of religious feeling and +emotion, high and low, as we shall see as we +proceed.</p> + +<p>YELLOW. Yellow represents the intellectual +phase of mentality. That is to say, it +stands for that part of the mental activities +which are concerned with reasoning, analysis, +judgment, logical processes, induction, deduction, +synthesis, etc. In its various hues, tints +and shades, it is manifested by the various +forms of intellectual activity, high and low, as +we shall see as we proceed.</p> + +<p>WHITE. White stands for what occultists +know as Pure Spirit, which is a very different +thing from the religious emotion of "spirituality," +and which really is the essence of the +ALL that really is. Pure Spirit is the positive +pole of Being. We shall see the part<span class="pagenum"><a name="page28" id="page28"></a>[<a href="./images/28.png">28</a>]</span> +played by it in the astral colors, as we proceed.</p> + +<p>BLACK. Black stands for the negative +pole of Being—the very negation of Pure +Spirit, and opposing it in every way. We +shall see the part played by it in the astral +colors as we proceed.</p> + +<p>The various combinations of the three Astral +Primary Colors are formed in connection +with Black and White as well as by the blending +of the three themselves. These combinations, +of course, result from the shades of +mental and emotional activity manifested by +the individuality, of which they are the reflection +and the key.</p> + +<p>The combinations and blending of the astral +colors, however, are numberless, and present +an almost infinite variety. Not only is the +blending caused by the mixing of the colors +themselves, in connection with black and +white, but in many cases the body of one +color is found to be streaked, striped, dotted +or clouded by other colors. At times there is +perceived the mixture of two antagonistic +color streams fighting against each other before +blending. Again we see the effect of one +color neutralizing another.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page29" id="page29"></a>[<a href="./images/29.png">29</a>]</span></p> + +<p>In some cases great black clouds obscure +the bright colors beneath, and then darken the +fierce glow of color, just as is often witnessed +in the case of a physical conflagration. Again, +we find great flashes of bright yellow, or red, +flaring across the field of the aura, showing +agitation or the conflict of intellect and passion.</p> + +<p>The average student, who has not developed +the astral vision, is inclined to imagine that +the astral colors in the human aura present +the appearance of an egg-shaped rainbow, or +spectrum, or something of that sort. But this +is a great mistake. In the first place, the +astral colors are seldom at rest, for all mental +and emotional activity is the result of vibration, +change, and rhythmic motion. Consequently, +the colors of the aura present a +kaleidoscopic appearance, of constant change +of color, shape and grouping—a great electrical +display, so to speak, constantly shifting, +changing, and blending.</p> + +<p>Great tongues of flamelike emanations project +themselves beyond the border of the aura, +under strong feeling or excitement, and great +vibratory whirls and swirls are manifested. +The sight is most fascinating, although somewhat<span class="pagenum"><a name="page30" id="page30"></a>[<a href="./images/30.png">30</a>]</span> +terrifying at first. Nature is wise in +bestowing the gift of astral vision only gradually +and by almost imperceptible stages of +advance. There are many unpleasant, as well +as pleasant, sights on the Astral Plane.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page31" id="page31"></a>[<a href="./images/31.png">31</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapteriv" id="chapteriv"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> + +<h3>THE ASTRAL COLORS (Continued).</h3> + + +<p>Remembering, always, the significance +of the three primary colors on +the astral plane, let us consider the +meaning of the combinations, shades, hues, +and tints of these colors.</p> + +<p>THE RED GROUP. In this group of astral +colors seen in the human aura, we find +strongly in evidence the clear bright red shade, +similar to that of fresh, pure arterial blood as +it leaves the heart, filled with pure material +freshly oxygenated. This shade, in the aura, +indicates health, life-force, vigor, virility, etc., +in pure and untainted form. The aura of a +healthy, strong child shows this shade of color +very plainly and strongly.</p> + +<p>Strong, pure natural emotions, such as +friendship, love of companionship, love of physical +exercise, healthy clean sports, etc., are +manifested by a clear clean shade of red. +When these feelings become tainted with selfishness, +low motives, etc., the shade grows +darker and duller. Love of low companionship, +unclean sports, or selfish games, etc., +produce an unpleasant muddy red shade.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page32" id="page32"></a>[<a href="./images/32.png">32</a>]</span></p> + +<p>A shade of red, very near to crimson, is the +astral color of Love, but the tint and shade +varies greatly according to the nature of this +form of emotional feeling. A very high form +of love, which seeks the good of the loved one, +rather than the satisfaction of oneself, manifests +as a beautiful rose tint—one of the most +pleasing of the astral tints, by the way. Descending +in the scale, we find the crimson +shade becoming darker and duller, until we +descend to the plane of impure, sensual, coarse +passion, which is manifested by an ugly, dull, +muddy crimson of a repulsive appearance, +suggesting blood mixed with dirty earth or +barnyard soil.</p> + +<p>A peculiar series of red shades are those +manifesting anger in its various forms, from +the vivid scarlet flashes of anger color, arising +from what may be called "righteous indignation," +down the scale to the ugly flashes of +deep, dull red, betokening rage and uncontrolled +passion. The red of anger generally +shows itself in flashes, or great leaping flames, +often accompanied by a black background, in +the case of malicious hate, or by a dirty, +greenish background when the rage arises +from jealousy, or envy. The color of avarice +is a very ugly combination of dull, dark red,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page33" id="page33"></a>[<a href="./images/33.png">33</a>]</span> +and a dirty ugly green. If persons could see +their own astral colors accompanying these +undesirable mental states, the sight would +perhaps so disgust them with such states as +to work a cure. At any rate, they are most +disgusting and repulsive to the occultist who +beholds them in the human aura, and he often +wonders why they do not sicken the person +manifesting them—they often do just this +thing, to tell the truth.</p> + +<p>THE YELLOW GROUP. In this group +of astral colors seen in the human aura we find +as many varieties as we do in the red group. +Yellow, denoting intellect, has many degrees +of shade and tint, and many degrees of clearness.</p> + +<p>An interesting shade in this group is that +of Orange, which represents different forms +of "pride of intellect," intellectual ambition, +love of mastery by will, etc. The greater degree +of red in the astral orange color, the +greater the connection with the physical or +animal nature. Pride and love of power over +others, has much red in its astral color, while +love of intellectual mastery has much less red +in its composition.</p> + +<p>Pure intellectual attainment, and the love +of the same, is manifested by a beautiful<span class="pagenum"><a name="page34" id="page34"></a>[<a href="./images/34.png">34</a>]</span> +clear golden yellow. Great teachers often +have this so strongly in evidence, that at times +their students have glimpses of a golden +"halo" around the head of the teacher. Teachers +of great spirituality have this "nimbus" +of golden yellow, with a border of beautiful +blue tint, strongly in evidence.</p> + +<p>The paintings of the great spiritual teachers +of the race usually have this radiance pictured +as a "halo," showing a recognition of the +phenomenon on the part of the great artists. +Hoffman's celebrated painting of the Christ +in the Garden of Gethsemane shows this nimbus +so accurately depicted that the occultist +is convinced that this artist must have actually +witnessed a similar scene in the astral +light, so true to the astral facts are its details. +The images of the Buddha also show this +radiance.</p> + +<p>The rich golden shades of intellectual yellow +are comparatively rare, a sickly lemon +color being the only indication of intellectual +power and found in the aura of the great run +of persons. To the sight of the occultist, employing +his power of astral vision, a crowd of +persons will manifest here and there, at widely +separated points, the bright golden yellow of +the true intellect, appearing like scattered<span class="pagenum"><a name="page35" id="page35"></a>[<a href="./images/35.png">35</a>]</span> +lighted candles among a multitude of faintly +burning matches.</p> + +<p>THE GREEN GROUP. This is a peculiar +group, consisting as of course it does of various +combinations of blues and yellows, tinted +and shaded by white or black. Even skilled +occultists find it very difficult to account for +the fact of certain green shades arising from +the spiritual blue and the intellectual yellow—this +is one of the most obscure points in the +whole subject of the astral colors, and none +but the most advanced occultists are able to +explain the "why" in some instances. To +those who are fond of analysis of this kind, +I will drop the following hint, which may +help them out in the matter, viz. The key is +found in the fact that Green lies in the centre +of the astral spectrum, and is a balance between +the two extremes, and is also influenced +by these two extremes in a startling manner.</p> + +<p>A certain restful green denotes love of nature, +out of door life, travel in the country, +etc., and also, slightly differing in tint, the +love of home scenes, etc. Again, a clear beautiful +lighter tint of green indicates what may +be called sympathy, altruistic emotion, charity, +etc. Again, illustrating variety in this +group of astral colors, another shade of green<span class="pagenum"><a name="page36" id="page36"></a>[<a href="./images/36.png">36</a>]</span> +shows intellectual tolerance of the views of +others. Growing duller, this indicates tact, +diplomacy, ability to handle human nature, and +descending another degree or so blends into +insincerity, shiftiness, untruth, etc. There is +an ugly slate-colored green indicating low, +tricky deceit—this is a very common shade in +the colors of the average aura, I am sorry to +say. Finally, a particularly ugly, muddy, +murky green indicates jealousy and kindred +feelings, envious malice, etc.</p> + +<p>THE BLUE GROUP. This interesting +group of astral colors represents the varying +forms and degrees of religious emotion, "spirituality," +etc. The highest form of spiritual, +religious feeling and thought is represented +by a beautiful, rich, clear violet tint, while +the lower and more gross phases of religious +emotion and thought are represented by the +darker and duller hues, tints, and shades until +a deep, dark indigo is reached, so dark that it +can scarcely be distinguished from a bluish +black. This latter color, as might be expected, +indicates a low superstitious form of religion, +scarcely worthy of the latter name. Religion, +we must remember, has its low places as well +as its heights—its garden grows the rarest +flowers, and at the same time the vilest weeds.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page37" id="page37"></a>[<a href="./images/37.png">37</a>]</span></p> + +<p>High spiritual feelings—true spiritual unfoldment—is +indicated by a wonderfully clear +light blue, of an unusual tint, something akin +to the clear light blue of the sky on a cool +autumn afternoon, just before sunset. Even +when we witness an approach to this color in +Nature, we are inspired by an uplifting feeling +as if we were in the presence of higher +things, so true is the intuition regarding these +things.</p> + +<p>Morality, of a high degree, is indicated by +a series of beautiful shades of blue, always +of a clear inspiring tint. Religious feeling +ruled by fear, is indicated by a shade of bluish +gray. Purple denotes a love of form and ceremony, +particularly those connected with religious +offices or regal grandeur of a solemn +kind. Purple, naturally, was chosen as the +royal color in the olden days.</p> + +<p>THE BROWN GROUP. The brown group +of astral colors represents desire for gain and +accumulation, ranging from the clear brown +of industrious accumulation, to the murky dull +browns of miserliness, greed and avarice. +There is a great range in this group of brown +shades, as may be imagined.</p> + +<p>THE GRAY GROUP. The group of grays +represents a negative group of thought and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page38" id="page38"></a>[<a href="./images/38.png">38</a>]</span> +emotions. Gray represents fear, depression, +lack of courage, negativity, etc. This is an +undesirable and unpleasant group.</p> + +<p>BLACK. Black, in the astral colors, stands +for hatred, malice, revenge, and "devilishness" +generally. It shades the brighter colors into +their lower aspects, and robs them of their +beauty. It stands for hate—also for gloom, +depression, pessimism, etc.</p> + +<p>WHITE. White is the astral color of Pure +Spirit, as we have seen, and its presence raises +the degree of the other colors, and renders +them clearer. In fact, the perception of the +highest degree of Being known to the most +advanced occultist is manifested to the highest +adepts and masters in the form of "The Great +White Light," which transcends any light +ever witnessed by the sight of man on either +physical or astral plane—for it belongs to a +plane higher than either, and is absolute, +rather than a relative, white. The presence +of white among the astral colors of the human +aura, betokens a high degree of spiritual attainment +and unfoldment, and when seen permeating +the entire aura it is one of the Signs of +the Master—the token of Adeptship.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page39" id="page39"></a>[<a href="./images/39.png">39</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapterv" id="chapterv"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> + +<h3>THE AURIC KALEIDOSCOPE.</h3> + + +<p>As we have seen, the human aura is never +in a state of absolute rest or quiet. +Motion and change is ever manifested +by it. It has its periods of comparative calm, +of course, but even in this state there is a +pulsing, wave-like motion apparent. The +clouds of changing color fly over its surface, +and in its depth, like the fast driven fleecy +clouds over the summer sky, illumined by the +rays of the setting sun.</p> + +<p>Again, fierce storms of mental activity, or +emotional stress, disturb its comparative calm, +and the wildest scenes are witnessed in the +aura by the observer. So intense are the vibrations +of some of these mental storms that +their effect is plainly felt by the average person, +though he is not able to distinguish the +colors or the great whirls and swirls of auric +substance accompanying them.</p> + +<p>A person sunk in reverie, dream-states, or +sleep, presents an interesting auric kaleidoscope, +which possesses great beauty if the +person be normal and of average morality. In +such a case there is a cloudy-clearness (if the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page40" id="page40"></a>[<a href="./images/40.png">40</a>]</span> +term may be used) tinged with tints and +shades of varying colors, blending in strange +and interesting combinations, appearing gradually +from previous combinations, and sinking +gradually into new ones.</p> + +<p>To the observer of the aura the term +"opalescent" instinctly presents itself, for +there is a striking resemblance to the opaline +peculiar play of colors of delicate tints and +shades in a body of pearly or milky hue. +Color shades into color, tint into tint, hue into +hue, as in the color scale of the spectrum of +which the rainbow is the most familiar example. +But the rainbow or spectrum lacks +the peculiar semi-transparency of the auric +colors, and also the constantly changing and +dissolving body of colors of the aura.</p> + +<p>At this point, I wish to call your attention +to a phase of the aura which I purposely +passed over in the preceding chapters. I allude +to the phase of the aura which presents +the "pearly" appearance of the opalescent +body, which we have just noted. This appearance +is manifested neither by any of the mental +or emotional states, nor is it the prana-aura +or vital force which I have described in +a previous chapter. It is the manifestation +of what is known to occultists as "etheric substance," +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page41" id="page41"></a>[<a href="./images/41.png">41</a>]</span> +and is a very interesting feature of +the auric phenomena.</p> + +<p>This etheric substance, which manifests +this peculiar radiance in the body of the aura, +composes that which is called by some occultists +"the astral body," but this latter term is +also employed in another sense, and I prefer +to use the term "etheric double" to indicate +what some others know as "the astral body." +Etheric substance is much finer form of substance +than that which composes the physical +body. It is really matter in a very high degree +of vibration—much higher than even the +ultra-gaseous matter of physical substance. +It may be sensed, ordinarily, only on the astral +plane, which is its own particular plane of activity.</p> + +<p>The etheric double, composed of this etheric +substance, is the exact counterpart of its physical +counterpart—the ordinary physical body +of the individual—although it is capable of +great expansion or shrinking in space. Like +the physical body it radiates an aura, and this +combining with the other forms of the auric +body, gives to it its peculiar pearly appearance, +which is the background of its opalescence +previously noted.</p> + +<p>The etheric double explains the phenomenon<span class="pagenum"><a name="page42" id="page42"></a>[<a href="./images/42.png">42</a>]</span> +of spectral appearances or ghosts, for it persists +for a time after the death of the physical +body, and under some conditions becomes +visible to the ordinary sight. It sometimes is +projected from the physical body, and at +such times appears as an apparition of the +living, of which there are many cases recorded +by the societies investigating psychical subjects.</p> + +<p>The etheric double, or astral body, is referred +to here, however, merely to explain +the peculiar pearly tint of the background, or +body, of the aura, in and through which the +mental and emotional auric colors play and +move. It may interest you, however, to know +that this phase of aura is always present +around and about a "ghost" or dematerialized +disembodied soul, or "spirit" as common usage +terms it.</p> + +<p>The aura of the wide-awake person is, of +course, far more active and more deeply colored +than is that of the person in reverie, +dream, or sleep. And, again the aura of the +person manifesting a high degree of mental +activity, or strong feeling or passion, is still +brighter and deeper than the ordinary person +performing his daily routine work. In the +state of anger, or love-passion, for instance,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page43" id="page43"></a>[<a href="./images/43.png">43</a>]</span> +the aura is violently disturbed, deep shades +of color whirling and swirling in the depths +and surface of the auric body. Lightning-like +flashes shoot forth and great bodies of +lurid smoky clouds fly on the surface. Looking +into the aura of a man wild with rage and +passion, is like peering into Inferno. The astral +plane, in the region of a lynching mob, +or other body of persons filled with rage, +becomes a frightful scene of auric radiation.</p> + +<p>A person filled with the emotion of pure +love, fills his aura with the most beautiful +tints and shades of high rosy color, and to +behold the same is a pleasure fully appreciated +by the occultist. A church filled with persons +of a high devotional ideality, is also a beautiful +place, by reason of the mingling of auric +violet-blue vibrations of those therein assembled. +The atmosphere of a prison is most +depressing and presents a most unpleasant +appearance to one possessing the astral vision. +Likewise the astral atmosphere of an abode +of vice and passion, becomes really physically +nauseating to the occultist of high ideals and +taste. Such scenes on the astral plane are +avoided by all true occultists, except when the +call of duty leads them to visit them to give +aid and help.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page44" id="page44"></a>[<a href="./images/44.png">44</a>]</span></p> + +<p>There are two distinct features connected +with the auric coloring of every person. The +first is the coloring resulting from the more +habitual thoughts and feelings of the person—from +his character, in fact; while the second +is the coloring resulting from the particular +feelings, or thoughts, manifested by him at +that particular moment or time.</p> + +<p>The color of the feeling of the moment soon +disappears and fades away, while the more +habitual feeling, bound up with his character, +causes its corresponding color to abide more +permanently, and thus to give a decided hue +to his general auric color appearance.</p> + +<p>The trained occultist is, therefore, able to +ascertain not only the passing thoughts and +feelings of a person, but also to determine infallibly +his general character, tendencies, past +character and actions, and general nature, +simply from a careful examination and study +of the auric colors of the person in question.</p> + +<p>As all occultists well know, every place, +dwelling, business place, church, courtroom—every +village, city, country, nation—has its +own collective aura, known as "astral atmosphere," +which is simply but a combined reflection +of the individual auras of the human +units of which its body of inhabitants is made<span class="pagenum"><a name="page45" id="page45"></a>[<a href="./images/45.png">45</a>]</span> +up. These atmospheric vibrations are plainly +felt by many persons, and we are instinctively +attracted or repelled by reason thereof. But, +to the developed occultists, these places manifest +the auric colors, in the combinations arising +from the nature of the mentalities of the +persons dwelling in them.</p> + +<p>Each place has its collective aura, just as +each person has his individual aura. The +astral plane presents a wonderful scene of +color by reason of this and similar causes. +The harmony of the color scheme, in some +cases, is marvellously beautiful; while the horrible +aspect of scenes resemble a nightmare +vision of the worst kind.</p> + +<p>It is easy to understand why some of the +ancients who stumbled into glimpses of the +astral plane, while in dream-state or trance, +reported the vision of terrible hells of unquenchable +fire, fiery lakes of smoking brimstone, +etc., for such ideas would naturally +come to the mind of the uninformed person +who had peered into the astral plane in such +cases.</p> + +<p>And, in the same way, the visions of heaven +reported by the saints, and others of high +spirituality, are explainable on the theory that +these persons had sensed some of the beautiful<span class="pagenum"><a name="page46" id="page46"></a>[<a href="./images/46.png">46</a>]</span> +scenes of the higher astral planes, filled with +the combined auric tints and hues of souls of +high development. The principle of auric +colors holds good on all the many planes of +being and existence—high as well as low.</p> + +<p>I merely hint at a great occult truth in making +the above statements. The thoughtful will +be able to read between my lines. I have given +you a little key which will unlock the door +of many mysteries, if you will but use it +intelligently.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page47" id="page47"></a>[<a href="./images/47.png">47</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chaptervi" id="chaptervi"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> + +<h3>THOUGHT FORMS.</h3> + + +<p>That interesting phase of occult phenomena, +known as "thought forms," is +so closely related to the general subject +of the human aura that a mention of one +must naturally lead to the thought of the other. +Thought-forms are built up of the very material +composing the aura, and manifest all of +the general characteristics thereof, even to the +auric colors. An understanding of the facts +of the human aura is necessary for a correct +understanding of the nature of the thought-forms +composed of the same substance.</p> + +<p>A "thought form" is a peculiar manifestation +of mental activity on the astral plane. It +is more than a powerful disturbance in the +body of the human aura, although this is the +place of its embodiment or birth in the objective +world. It is formed in the following +manner: A person manifests a strong desire, +feeling or idea, which is naturally filled with +the dynamic force of his will. This sets up a +series of strong vibrations in the body of the +aura, which gradually resolve themselves into +a strong whirling centre of thought-force involved<span class="pagenum"><a name="page48" id="page48"></a>[<a href="./images/48.png">48</a>]</span> +in a mass of strongly cohesive auric +substance, and strongly charged with the +power of the prana of the person.</p> + +<p>In some cases these thought forms survive +in the auric body for some little time, and then +gradually fade away. In other cases they +survive and maintain an almost independent +existence for some time, and exert a strong +influence upon other persons coming in the +presence of the person. Again, these thought +forms may be so strongly charged with prana, +and so imbued with the mental force of the +person, that they will actually be thrown off +and away from the aura itself, and travel in +space until they exhaust their initial energy—in +the meantime exerting an influence upon the +psychic aura of other persons.</p> + +<p>A thought-form is more than merely a +strongly manifested thought—it really is such +a thought, but surrounded by a body of ethereal +substance, charged with prana, and even carrying +with it the vibration of the life energy of +its creator. It is a child of the mind of its +creator, and acquires a portion of his life-essence, +so to speak, which abides with it for +a longer or shorter time after its birth. In +extreme instances it becomes practically a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page49" id="page49"></a>[<a href="./images/49.png">49</a>]</span> +semi-living elemental force, of necessarily +comparatively short life.</p> + +<p>To those who find it difficult to understand +how a thought-form can persist after separation +from the presence of the thinker, I would +say that the phenomena is similar to that of +light traveling in space, long after the star +which originated it has been destroyed. Or, +again, it is like the vibrations of heat remaining +in a room after the lamp or stove causing +it has been removed, or the fire in the grate +having died out. Or like the sound waves of +the drum-beat persisting after the beat itself +has ceased. It is all a matter of the persistence +of vibrations.</p> + +<p>Thought forms differ greatly one from the +other in the matter of shape and general appearance. +The most common and simple form +is that of an undulating wave, or series of tiny +waves, resembling the circles caused by the +dropping of a pebble into a still pond. Another +form is that of a tiny rotating bit of +cloud-like substance, sometimes whirling towards +a central point, like a whirlpool; and +sometimes swirling away from the central +point like the familiar "pin-wheel" fireworks +toy. Another form is akin the ring of smoke +projected from the coughing locomotive, or<span class="pagenum"><a name="page50" id="page50"></a>[<a href="./images/50.png">50</a>]</span> +the rounded lips of the cigar smoker, the movement +in this kind being a form of spiral +rotation. Other thought forms have the appearance +of swiftly rotating balls of cloudy +substance, often glowing with a faint phosphorescence.</p> + +<p>Sometimes the thought form will appear as +a great slender jet, like steam ejected from +the spout of a tea-kettle, which is sometimes +broken up into a series of short, puffed-out +jets, each following the jet preceding it, and +traveling in a straight line. Sometimes the +thought form shoots forth like a streak of dim +light, almost resembling a beam of light flashed +from a mirror. Occasionally, it will twist its +way along like a long, slender corkscrew, or +auger, boring into space.</p> + +<p>In cases of thought-forms sent forth by explosive +emotion, the thought form will actually +take the form of a bomb, which literally +explodes when it reaches the presence of the +person toward whom it is aimed. Every person +has experienced this feeling of a thought +bomb having been exploded in his near vicinity, +having been directed by a vigorous personality. +This form is frequently found in the thought +forms sent out by a strong, earnest, vigorous +orator.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page51" id="page51"></a>[<a href="./images/51.png">51</a>]</span></p> + +<p>There are strong thought forms which seem +to strive to push back the other person, so correctly +do they represent the idea and feeling +back of their manifestation. Others seem to +strive to wind around the other person, and +to try to literally drag him toward the first +person, this form often accompanying strong +appeal, persuasion, coaxing, etc., when accompanied +by strong desire. A particularly vigorous +form of this kind of thought form takes +on the appearance of a nebulous octopus, with +long, winding, clinging tentacles, striving to +wrap around the other person, and to draw +him toward the center.</p> + +<p>The force of the feeling behind the manifestation +of the thought form will often travel +a long distance from the sender—in fact, in +cases of great power of concentration, space +seems to be no barrier to its passage. In striking +instances of thought transference, etc., it +will be found that thought forms play an +important part.</p> + +<p>The variety of shapes of thought forms is +almost endless. Each combination of thought +and feeling creates its own form, and each individual +seems to have his own peculiarities +in this respect. The forms I have above described, +however, will serve as typical cases to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page52" id="page52"></a>[<a href="./images/52.png">52</a>]</span> +illustrate the more common classes of appearances. +The list, however, might be indefinitely +expanded from the experience of any experienced +occultist, and is not intended to be full +by any means. All varieties of geometrical +forms are found among the thought forms, +some of them being of remarkable beauty.</p> + +<p>In considering the subject of projected +thought forms, moreover, it must be remembered +that they partake of, and manifest, the +same colors as does the aura itself, for they +are composed of the same material and are +charged with the same energy. But, note this +difference, that whereas the aura is energized +from the constant battery of the organism of +the individual, the thought form, on the contrary, +has at its service only the energy with +which it was charged when it was thrown off—being +a storage battery, as it were, which in +time expends all of its power and then is +powerless.</p> + +<p>Every thought form bears the same color +that it would possess if it had been retained in +the body of the aura itself. But, as a rule, the +colors are plainer, and less blended with others—this +because each thought form is the representation +of a single definite feeling or thought, +or group of same, instead of being a body of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page53" id="page53"></a>[<a href="./images/53.png">53</a>]</span> +widely differing mental vibrations. Thus the +thought form of anger will show its black and +red, with its characteristic flashes. The +thought form of passion will show forth its +appropriate auric colors and general characteristics. +The thought form of high ideal love +will show its beautiful form and harmonious +tinting, like a wonderful celestial flower from +the garden of some far off Paradise.</p> + +<p>Many thought forms never leave the outer +limits of the aura, while others are projected +to great distances. Some sputter out as they +travel, and are disintegrated, while others continue +to glow like a piece of heated iron, for +many hours. Others persist for a long time, +with a faint phosphorescent glow. A careful +study of what has been said regarding the +characteristics of the various feelings and +emotions, as manifested in the auric body, will +give the student a very fair general idea of +what may be the appearance of any particular +variety of thought form, for a general principle +runs through the entire series of auric phenomena. +An understanding of the fundamental +principles will lead to an understanding of any +of the particular varieties of the manifestation +thereof.</p> + +<p>Finally, remember this: A thought form is<span class="pagenum"><a name="page54" id="page54"></a>[<a href="./images/54.png">54</a>]</span> +practically a bit of the detached aura of a +person, charged with a degree of his prana, +and energized with a degree of his life energy. +So, in a limited sense, it really is a projected +portion of his personality.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page55" id="page55"></a>[<a href="./images/55.png">55</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chaptervii" id="chaptervii"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> + +<h3>PSYCHIC INFLUENCE OF COLORS.</h3> + + +<p>In all of Nature's wonderful processes we +find many evidences of that great principle +of Action and Reaction, which, like the forward +and backward swing of the pendulum, +changes cause into effect, and effect into cause, +in a never ending series. We find this principle +in effect in the psychic relation of mental states +and colors. That is to say, that just as we find +that certain mental and emotional states manifest +in vibrations causing particular auric astral +colors, so do we find that the presence of certain +colors on the physical plane will have a +decided psychic effect upon the mental and +emotional states of individuals subject to their +influence. And, as might be expected by the +thoughtful student, the particular astral colors +manifested in the aura by the presence of some +particular mental or emotional state exactly +correspond with the particular physical colors +which influence that particular mental or +emotional state.</p> + +<p>Illustrating the statements in the preceding +paragraph, I would say that the continued +presence of red will be apt to set up emotional<span class="pagenum"><a name="page56" id="page56"></a>[<a href="./images/56.png">56</a>]</span> +vibrations of anger, passion, physical love, etc., +or, in a different tint, the higher physical emotions. +Blue, of the right tint, will tend to +cause feelings of spirituality, religious emotion, +etc. Green is conducive to feelings of relaxation, +repose, quiet, etc. Black produces the +feeling of gloom and grief. And so on, each +color tends to produce emotional vibrations +similar to those which manifest that particular +color in the astral aura of the person. It is a +case of "give and take" along the entire scale +of color and emotions, according to the great +natural laws.</p> + +<p>While the explanation of these facts is not +known to the average person, nevertheless +nearly everyone recognizes the subtle effect of +color and avoids certain colors, while seeking +certain others. There is not a single living +human being but who has experienced the +sense of rest, calm, repose, and calm inflow of +strength, when in a room decorated in quiet +shades of green. Nature, herself, has given +this particular shade to the grass and leaves of +trees and plants, so that the soothing effect of +the country scene is produced. The aura of a +person experiencing these feelings, and yielding +to them, will manifest precisely the tint or +shade of green which is shown on the grass<span class="pagenum"><a name="page57" id="page57"></a>[<a href="./images/57.png">57</a>]</span> +and leaves around him, so true is this natural +law of action and reaction.</p> + +<p>The effect of scarlet upon animals, the bull +for instance, is well known—to use the familiar +term, it causes one to "see red." The sight +of the color of blood is apt to arouse feelings +of rage, or disgust, by reason of the same law. +The sight of the beautiful clear blue sky tends +to arouse feelings of reverence, awe or spirituality. +One can never think of this shade of +blue arousing rage; or red arouse feelings of +spirituality.</p> + +<p>It is a well known fact that in insane +asylums, the use of red in decorations must be +avoided, while the proper shades of blue or +green are favored. On the other hand, the +use of a proper red, in certain cases, will tend +to arouse vitality and physical strength in a +patient. It is not by mere chance that the +life giving blood is a bright, rich red color +when it leaves the heart.</p> + +<p>When one "feels blue" he does not have the +impression of a bright or soft blue—but he +really is almost conscious of the presence of +a dull bluish gray. And the presence of such +a color in one's surroundings, tends to cause +a feeling of depression. Everyone knows the +effect of a "gray day" in the Fall or Spring.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page58" id="page58"></a>[<a href="./images/58.png">58</a>]</span></p> + +<p>Again, who does not know the feeling of +mental exaltation coming from the sight of a +day filled with golden sunshine, or from a +golden sunset. We find proofs of this law of +Nature on all sides, every day of our lives. It +is an interesting subject, which will repay the +student for the expenditure of a little time and +thought upon it.</p> + +<p>Speaking of the general class characteristics +of the three primary groups of colors, all occultists, +as well as many physiologists and +psychologists, are agreed on the following +fundamental propositions, viz.: that (1) Red +is exciting to the mind and emotions; (2) +Yellow is inspiring and elevating, and intellectually +stimulating; and (3) Blue is cool, +soothing, and calming. It is also universally +conceded that the right shades of green (combining +the qualities of blue and yellow in appropriate +proportions) is the ideal color of +rest and recuperation, followed by a stimulation +and new ambition. The reason for this +may be seen, when you consider the respective +qualities of blue and yellow which compose +this color.</p> + +<p>It is interesting to note that the science of +medicine is now seriously considering the use +of colors in the treatment of disease, and the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page59" id="page59"></a>[<a href="./images/59.png">59</a>]</span> +best medical authorities investigating the subject +are verifying the teachings of the old +occultists, regarding the influence of colors on +mental states and physical conditions.</p> + +<p>Dr. Edwin Babbitt, a pioneer in this line in +the Western world, gave the general principles +in a nutshell, when he laid down the following +rule: "There is a trianal series of graduations +in the peculiar potencies of colors, the center +and climax of electrical action, which cools the +nerves, being in violet; the climax of electrical +action, which is soothing to the vascular system, +being in blue; the climax of luminosity +being in yellow; and the climax of thermism +or heat being in red. This is not an imaginary +division of qualities, but a real one, the flamelike +red color having a principle of warmth in +itself; the blue and violet, a principle of cold +and electricity. Thus we have many styles of +chromatic action, including progression of +hues, of lights and shades, of fineness and +coarseness, of electrical power, luminous +power, thermal power, etc."</p> + +<p>Read the above statement of Dr. Babbitt, +and then compare it with the occult teaching +regarding the astral colors, and you will perceive +the real basis of the science which the +good doctor sought to establish, and in which<span class="pagenum"><a name="page60" id="page60"></a>[<a href="./images/60.png">60</a>]</span> +cause he did such excellent pioneer work. The +result of his work is now being elaborated by +modern physicians in the great schools of +medicine, particularly on the Continent, in +Europe—England and America being somewhat +behind the times in this work.</p> + +<p>The advanced occultist also finds much satisfaction +in the interest, on the part of physicians +and jurists, in the matter of the influence of +color upon the mental, moral and physical welfare +of the public. The effect of color upon +morality is being noticed by workers for human +welfare, occupying important offices.</p> + +<p>The American journals report the case of a +judge in a large Western city in that country, +who insisted upon his courtroom being +decorated in light, cheerful tints, instead of in +the old, gloomy, depressing shades formerly +employed. This judge wisely remarked that +brightness led to right thinking, and darkness +to crooked thinking; also that his court, being +an uplift court, must have walls to correspond, +and that it was enough to turn any man into +a criminal to be compelled to sit in a dark, +dismal courtroom, day after day.</p> + +<p>This good judge, who must have had some +acquaintance with the occult teachings, is +quoted as concluding as follows: "White,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page61" id="page61"></a>[<a href="./images/61.png">61</a>]</span> +cream, light yellow, and orange are the colors +which are the sanest. I might add light green, +for that is the predominant color in Nature; +black, brown and deep red are incentives to +crime—a man in anger sees red." Surely a +remarkable utterance from the bench!</p> + +<p>The effect of color schemes upon the moral +and mental welfare of persons is being recognized +in the direction of providing brighter +color schemes in schools, hospitals, reformatories, +prisons, etc. The reports naturally +show the correctness of the underlying theory. +The color of a tiny flower has its effect upon +even the most hardened prisoner; while the +minds of children in school are quickened by +a touch of brightness here and there in the +room. It needs no argument to prove the +beneficial effect of the right kind of colors in +the sickroom, or hospital ward.</p> + +<p>The prevailing theories, and practice, regarding +the employment of color in therapeutics +and human welfare work, are in the main +correct. But, I urge the study of the occult +significance of color, as mentioned in this book +in connection with the human aura and its +astral colors, as a sound basis for an intelligent, +thorough understanding of the real psychic +principles underlying the physical application<span class="pagenum"><a name="page62" id="page62"></a>[<a href="./images/62.png">62</a>]</span> +of the methods referred to. Go to the center +of the subject, and then work outward—that +is the true rule of the occultist, which might +well be followed by the non-occult general +public.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page63" id="page63"></a>[<a href="./images/63.png">63</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapterviii" id="chapterviii"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> + +<h3>AURIC MAGNETISM.</h3> + + +<p>The phenomenon of human magnetism +is too well recognized by the general +public, to require argument at this time. +Let the scientists dispute about it as much as +they please, down in the heart of nearly all of +the plain people of the race is the conviction +that there is such a thing. The occultists, of +course, are quite familiar with the wonderful +manifestations of this great natural force, and +with its effect upon the minds and bodies of +members of the race, and can afford to smile +at the attempts of some of the narrow minds +in the colleges to pooh-pooh the matter.</p> + +<p>But the average person is not familiar with +the relation of this human magnetism to the +human aura. I think that the student should +familiarize himself with this fundamental relation, +in order to reason correctly on the subject +of human magnetism. Here is the fundamental +fact in a nutshell: The human aura is +the great storehouse, or reservoir, of human +magnetism, and is the source of all human magnetism +that is projected by the individual toward +other individuals. Just how human magnetism<span class="pagenum"><a name="page64" id="page64"></a>[<a href="./images/64.png">64</a>]</span> +is generated, is, of course, a far deeper +matter, but it is enough for our purpose at this +time to explain the fact of its storage and +transmission.</p> + +<p>In cases of magnetic healing, etc., the matter +is comparatively simple. In such instances the +healer by an effort of the will (sometimes unconsciously +applied) projects a supply of his +pranic aura vibrations into the body of his +patient, by way of the nervous system of the +patient, and also by means of what may be +called the induction of the aura itself.</p> + +<p>The mere presence of a person strongly +charged with prana, is often enough to cause +an overflow into the aura of other persons, +with a resulting feeling of new strength and +energy. By the use of the hands of the healer, +a heightened effect is produced, by reason of +certain properties inherent in the nervous system +of both healer and patient.</p> + +<p>There is even a flow of etheric substance +from the aura of the healer to that of the patient, +in cases where the vitality of the latter +is very low. Many a healer has actually, and +literally, pumped his life force and etheric substance +into the body of his patient, when the +latter was sinking into the weakness which +precedes death, and has by so doing been able<span class="pagenum"><a name="page65" id="page65"></a>[<a href="./images/65.png">65</a>]</span> +to bring him back to life and strength. This +is practically akin to the transfusion of blood—except +that it is on the psychic plane instead +of the physical.</p> + +<p>But the work of the magnetic healer does +not stop here, if he be well informed regarding +his science. The educated healer realizing +the potent effect of mental states upon physical +conditions—of mental vibrations upon the +physical nerve centers and organs of the body—endeavors +to arouse the proper mental vibrations +in the mind of his patient. Ordinarily, +he does this merely by holding in his mind the +corresponding desired mental state, and thus +arousing similar vibrations in the mind of the +patient. This of itself is a powerful weapon +of healing, and constitutes the essence of mental +healing as usually practiced. But there is +a possible improvement even upon this, as we +shall see in a moment.</p> + +<p>The advanced occultist, realizing the law of +action and reaction in the matter of the auric +colors, turns the same to account in healing +work, as follows: He not only holds in his +mind the strong feeling and thought which he +wishes to transmit to the patient, but (fix this +in your mind) he also pictures in his imagination<span class="pagenum"><a name="page66" id="page66"></a>[<a href="./images/66.png">66</a>]</span> +the particular kind of color which corresponds +with the feeling or thought in question.</p> + +<p>A moment's thought will show you that by +this course he practically multiplies the effect. +Not only do his own thought vibrations (1) +set up corresponding vibrations in the mind of +the patient, by the laws of thought transference, +but (2) his thought of the certain colors +will set up corresponding vibrations not only +(a) in his own aura, and thence (b) to that of +the patient, but will also (3) act directly upon +the aura of the patient and reproduce the colors +there, which (4) in turn will arouse corresponding +vibrations in the mind of the patient, +by the law of reaction.</p> + +<p>The above may sound a little complicated at +first reading, but a little analysis will show +you that it is really quite a simple process, +acting strictly along the lines of Action and +Reaction, which law has been explained to you +in preceding chapters of this book. The vibrations +rebound from mind to aura, and from aura +to mind, in the patient, something like a billiard +ball flying from one side of the table to another, +or a tennis ball flying between the two +racquets over the net.</p> + +<p>The principle herein mentioned may be employed +as well in what is called "absent treatment"<span class="pagenum"><a name="page67" id="page67"></a>[<a href="./images/67.png">67</a>]</span> +as in treatments where the patient is +present. By the laws of thought transference, +not only the thought but also the mental image +of the appropriate astral color, is transmitted +over space, and then, impinging on the mind +of the patient, is transmitted into helpful and +health-giving vibrations in his mind. The +healer of any school of mental or spiritual healing +will find this plan very helpful to him in +giving absent as well as present treatments. I +recommend it from years of personal experience, +as well as that of other advanced +occultists.</p> + +<p>Of course the fact that the ordinary healer is +not able to distinguish the finer shades of +astral color, by reason of his not having actually +perceived them manifested in the aura, +renders his employment of this method less +efficacious than that of the developed and +trained occultist. But, nevertheless, he will +find that, from the knowledge of the auric or +astral colors given in this little book, he will be +able to obtain quite satisfactory and marked +results in his practice. The following table, +committed to memory, will be of help to him +in the matter of employing the mental image +of the auric colors in his healing work.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page68" id="page68"></a>[<a href="./images/68.png">68</a>]</span></p> + + +<h4>TABLE OF HEALING COLORS.</h4> + +<p>Nervous System—</p> +<ul class="plain"> +<li>Cooling and soothing: Shades of violet, lavender, etc.</li> +<li>Resting and invigorating effect: Grass greens.</li> +<li>Inspiring and illuminating: Medium yellows, and orange.</li> +<li>Stimulating and exciting: Reds (bright).</li> +</ul> + +<p>Blood and Organs—</p> + +<ul class="plain"> +<li>Cooling and soothing: Clear dark blues.</li> +<li>Resting and invigorating: Grass greens.</li> +<li>Inspiring and illuminating: Orange yellows.</li> +<li>Stimulating and exciting: Bright reds.</li> +</ul> + + +<p>The following additional suggestions will be +found helpful to the healer: In cases of impaired +physical vitality; also chilliness, lack of +bodily warmth, etc., bright, warm reds are indicated. +In cases of feverishness, overheated +blood, excessive blood pressure, inflammation, +etc., blue is indicated. Red has a tendency to +produce renewed and more active heart action; +while violets and lavenders tend to slow down +the too rapid beating of the heart. A nervous, +unstrung patient, may be treated by bathing +her, mentally, in a flood of violet or lavender<span class="pagenum"><a name="page69" id="page69"></a>[<a href="./images/69.png">69</a>]</span> +auric color; while a tired, used up, fatigued +person may be invigorated by flooding him +with bright reds, followed by bright, rich yellows, +finishing the treatment with a steady +flow of warm orange color.</p> + +<p>To those who are sufficiently advanced in +occult philosophy, I would say that they +should remember the significance of the Great +White Light, and accordingly conclude their +treatment by an effort to indicate an approach +to that clear, pure white color in the aura—mentally, +of course. This will leave the patient +in an inspired, exalted, illuminated state of +mind and soul, which will be of great benefit +to him, and will also have the effect of reinvigorating +the healer by cosmic energy or +para-prana.</p> + +<p>Everything that has been said in this chapter +regarding the use of color in magnetic treatments, +is equally applicable to cases of self-healing, +or self-treatment. Let the patient follow +the directions above given for the healer, +and then turn the healing current, or thought, +inward—and the result will be the same as if +he were treating another. The individual will +soon find that certain colors fit his requirements +better than others, in which case let him +follow such experience in preference to general<span class="pagenum"><a name="page70" id="page70"></a>[<a href="./images/70.png">70</a>]</span> +rules, for the intuition generally is the safest +guide in such cases. However, it will be found +that the individual experience will usually +agree with the tables given above, with slight +personal variations.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page71" id="page71"></a>[<a href="./images/71.png">71</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapterix" id="chapterix"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2> + +<h3>DEVELOPING THE AURA.</h3> + + +<p>When it is remembered that the aura +of the individual affects and influences +other persons with whom he +comes in contact—and is, in fact, an important +part of his personality—it will be seen that it +is important that the individual take pains to +develop his aura in the direction of desirable +qualities, and to neutralize and weed out undesirable +ones. This becomes doubly true, +when it is also remembered that, according to +the law of action and reaction, the auric vibrations +react upon the mind of the individual, +thus intensifying and adding fuel to the original +mental states which called them forth. +From any point of view, it is seen to be an +important part of self development and character +building, to develop the aura according +to scientific occult principles.</p> + +<p>In this work of aura development, there is +found to be two correlated phases, namely: +(1) the direct work of flooding the aura with +the best vibrations, by means of holding in the +mind clear, distinct and repeated mental pictures +of desirable ideas and feelings; and (2)<span class="pagenum"><a name="page72" id="page72"></a>[<a href="./images/72.png">72</a>]</span> +the added effect of mental images of the colors +corresponding to the ideas and feelings which +are deemed desirable and worthy of development.</p> + +<p>The first of the above mentioned phases is +probably far more familiar to the average student, +than is the second. This from the fact +that the average student is apt to be more or +less familiar with the teachings of the numerous +schools or cults which agree in the axiom +that "holding the thought" tends to develop +the mind of the individual along the particular +lines of such thought.</p> + +<p>This is a correct psychological principle, for +that matter, even when those practicing it do +not fully understand the underlying facts. +Mental faculties, like physical muscles, tend to +develop by exercise and use, and any faculty +may be developed and cultivated in this way.</p> + +<p>Another teaching of these same schools is +that the character of the thoughts so "held" +by the individual, effects other persons with +whom he comes in contact, and, in a way attracts +to him objective things, persons, and +circumstances in harmony with such thoughts. +This also is in accordance with the best occult +teaching—from which, of course, it was originally +derived.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page73" id="page73"></a>[<a href="./images/73.png">73</a>]</span></p> + +<p>I heartily endorse the facts of these teachings, +and pronounce them fundamentally correct. +And, in this connection, I may say that every +healer may apply his own methods PLUS this +teaching regarding the aura, and thus obtain +greatly increased results.</p> + +<p>By the faithful, persevering, holding in mind +of certain ideas and feelings, the individual +may flood his aura with the vibrations and +colors of such ideas and feelings, and thus +charge it with auric energy and power. By so +doing, he gains the benefit of the reaction upon +his own mind, and also secures the advantage +of the effect thereof upon other persons with +whom he comes in contact. In this way he +not only builds up his individual character +along desirable lines, but at the same time develops +a strong, positive, attractive "personality" +which affects others with whom he +comes in contact.</p> + +<p>I do not consider it necessary to go into details +here regarding this phase of "holding the +thought," for, as I have said, the average student +is already familiar with the rules regarding +the same. In a nutshell, however, I will +say that each individual is largely the result +of the thoughts he has manifested, and the +feelings which he has harbored. Therefore,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page74" id="page74"></a>[<a href="./images/74.png">74</a>]</span> +the rule is to manifest and exercise the faculties +you would develop, and inhibit or refrain +from manifesting the ones you would restrain +or control. Again, to restrain an undesirable +faculty, develop and exercise its opposite—kill +out the negatives by developing the positives. +The mind produces thought; and yet, it +tends to grow from the particular portion of +its own product which you may choose to feed +to it—for it not only creates thought, but also +feeds upon it. So, finally, let it produce the +best kind of thought for you, and then throw +that back into the hopper, for it will use it to +grind out more of the same kind and grow +strong in so doing. That is the whole thing +in a nutshell.</p> + +<p>The second phase of aura development (as +above classified), however, is not likely to be +familiar to the average student, for the reason +that it is not known outside of advanced occult +circles, and very little has been allowed to be +taught regarding it. But, the very reticence +regarding it is a proof of its importance, and +I strongly advise my students to give to it +the attention and practice that its importance +merits. The practice, thereof, however, is extremely +simple, and the principle of the practice, +moreover, is based solely upon the facts<span class="pagenum"><a name="page75" id="page75"></a>[<a href="./images/75.png">75</a>]</span> +of the relation of color and mental states, as +shown in the astral auric colors, as fully explained +in the preceding chapters of this book.</p> + +<p>In order to intelligently practice the development +of the aura by means of flooding or +charging it with the vibrations of psychic +colors, it is first necessary that the student be +thoroughly familiar with the scale of colors +related to each set of mental states or +emotional feelings. This scale and its key is +found in a number of places in the preceding +chapters.</p> + +<p>The student should turn back the pages of +this book, and then carefully re-read and re-study +every word which has been said about +the relation of mental states and auric colors. +He should know the mental correspondence of +the shades of red, yellow, and blue, so thoroughly +that the thought of one will bring the +idea of the other. He should be able to think +of the corresponding group of colors, the moment +he thinks of any particular mental state. +He should be thoroughly familiar with the +physical, mental, and spiritual effect of any of +the colors, and should moreover, test himself, +psychically, for the individual effects of certain +colors upon himself.</p> + +<p>He should enter into this study with interest<span class="pagenum"><a name="page76" id="page76"></a>[<a href="./images/76.png">76</a>]</span> +and earnestness, and then by keeping his eyes +and ears open, he will perceive interesting +facts concerning the subject on every side in +his daily work and life. He will perceive +many proofs of the principle, and will soon +amass a stock of experiences illustrating each +color and its corresponding mental state. He +will be richly repaid for the work of such study, +which, in fact, will soon grow to be more like +pleasure than like work.</p> + +<p>Having mastered this phase of the subject, +the student should give himself a thorough, +honest, self-examination and mental analysis. +He should write down a chart of his strong +points and his weak ones. He should check +off the traits which should be developed, and +those which should be restrained. He should +determine whether he needs development +along physical, mental, and spiritual lines, and +in what degree. Having made this chart of +himself, he should then apply the principles +of charging the aura with the color vibrations +indicated by his self diagnosis and prescription.</p> + +<p>The last stage is quite simple, once one has +acquired the general idea back of it. It consists +simply in forming as clear a mental image +as possible of the color or colors desired, and +then projecting the vibrations into the aura by<span class="pagenum"><a name="page77" id="page77"></a>[<a href="./images/77.png">77</a>]</span> +the simple effort of the will. This does not +mean that one needs to clinch the fist or frown +the brow, in willing. Willing, in the occult +sense, may be said to consist of a COMMAND, +leaving the rest to the mechanism of the will +and mind. Take away the obstacle of Doubt +and Fear—then the Royal Command performs +the work of setting the will into operation. +This, by the way, is an important occult secret, +of wide application—try to master its all important +significance.</p> + +<p>The mental imaging of colors may be materially +aided by concentration upon physical +material of the right color. By concentrating +the attention and vision upon a red flower, for +instance; or upon a bit of green leaf, in another +instance; one may be able to form a clear, +positive mental image of that particular color. +This accompanied by the willing, and demand, +that the vibrations of this color shall charge +the aura, will be found to accomplish the result. +Have something around you showing +the desirable colors, and your attention will +almost instinctively take up the impression +thereof, even though you may be thinking of, +or doing something else. Live as much as +possible in the idea and presence of the desirable +color, and you will get the habit of setting<span class="pagenum"><a name="page78" id="page78"></a>[<a href="./images/78.png">78</a>]</span> +up the mental image and vibration thereof. A +little practice and experience will soon give +you the idea, and enable you to get the best +results. Patience, perseverance, and sustained +earnest interest—that is the key of success.</p> + +<hr class="longer" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page79" id="page79"></a>[<a href="./images/79.png">79</a>]</span></p> + +<h2><a name="chapterx" id="chapterx"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2> + +<h3>THE PROTECTIVE AURA.</h3> + + +<p>Among the very oldest of the teachings +of occultism, we find instructions regarding +the building up and maintenance +of the protective aura of the individual, +whereby he renders himself immune to undesirable +physical, mental, psychic or spiritual +influences. So important is this teaching, that +it is to be regretted that there has not been +more said on the subject by some of the +writers of recent years. The trouble with +many of these recent writers is that they seem +to wish to close their eyes to the unpleasant +facts of life, and to gaze only upon the pleasant +ones. But this is a mistake, for ignorance has +never been a virtue, and to shut one's eyes to +unpleasant facts does not always result in destroying +them. I consider any teaching unfinished +and inadequate which does not include +instruction along protective lines.</p> + +<p>Physical auric protection consists in charging +the aura with vital magnetism and color, +which will tend to ward off not only the physical +contagion of ill persons, but, what is often<span class="pagenum"><a name="page80" id="page80"></a>[<a href="./images/80.png">80</a>]</span> +still more important, the contagion of their +mind and feelings.</p> + +<p>The student who has really studied the preceding +chapters will at once realize that this +protection is afforded by filling the aura with +the vibrations of health and physical strength, +by means of the mental imaging of the life-preserving +reds, and the exercise of the mind +in the direction of thought of strength and +power. These two things will tend to greatly +increase the resistive aura of anyone, and enable +him to throw off disease influences which +affect others.</p> + +<p>The aura of the successful physician and +healer, in the presence of disease, will invariably +show the presence of the bright, positive +red in the aura, accompanied by the mental +vibrations of strength, power and confidence, +and the absence of fear. This in connection +with the Auric Circle, which shall be described +presently, will be of great value to healers, +physicians, nurses, etc., as well as to those +who are brought into intimate contact with +sick persons.</p> + +<p>Of practically the same degree of importance, +is the charging of the aura with the +vibrations of mental protection, viz, the vibrations +of orange, yellow and similar colors.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page81" id="page81"></a>[<a href="./images/81.png">81</a>]</span> +These are the colors of intellect, you will remember, +and when the aura is charged and +flooded with them it acts as a protection +against the efforts of others to convince one +against his will, by sophistical arguments, +plausible reasoning, fallacious illustrations, etc. +It gives to one a sort of mental illumination, +quickening the perceptive faculties, and +brightening up the reasoning and judging +powers, and finally, giving a sharp edge to the +powers of repartee and answer.</p> + +<p>If you will assume the right positive mental +attitude, and will flood your aura with the +vibrations of the mental orange-yellow, the +mental efforts of other persons will rebound +from your aura, or, to use another figure of +speech, will slip from it like water from the +back of the proverbial duck. It is well to carry +the mental image of your head being surrounded +by a golden aura or halo, at such +times—this will be found especially efficacious +as a protective helmet when you are assaulted +by the intellect or arguments of others.</p> + +<p>And, again, there is a third form of protective +aura, namely protection of one's emotional +nature—and this is highly important, when one +remembers how frequently we are moved to +action by our emotions, rather than by our intellect<span class="pagenum"><a name="page82" id="page82"></a>[<a href="./images/82.png">82</a>]</span> +or reason. To guard one's emotions, +is to guard one's very inmost soul, so to speak. +If we can protect our feeling and emotional +side, we will be able to use our reasoning powers +and intellect far more effectively, as all +know by experience.</p> + +<p>What color should we use in this form of +auric protection? Can anyone be in doubt +here, if he has read the preceding chapters? +What is the emotional protective color?—why, +blue, of course. Blue controls this part of the +mind or soul, and by raising ourselves into the +vibrations of positive blue, we leave behind us +the lower emotions and feelings, and are transported +into the higher realms of the soul where +these low vibrations and influences cannot follow +us. In the same way, the blue colored +aura will act as an armor to protect us from +the contagion of the low passions and feelings +of others.</p> + +<p>If you are subjected to evil influences, or +contagion of those harboring low emotions and +desires, you will do well to acquire the art of +flooding your aura with the positive blue tints. +Make a study of bright, clear blues, and you +will instinctively select the one best suited for +your needs. Nature gives us this instinctive +knowledge, if we will but seek for it, and then<span class="pagenum"><a name="page83" id="page83"></a>[<a href="./images/83.png">83</a>]</span> +apply it when found. The aura of great moral +teachers, great priests and preachers, advanced +occultists, in fact all men of lofty ideals working +among those lower on the moral scale, are +always found to be charged with a beautiful, +clear blue, which acts as a protection to them +when they are unduly exposed to moral or +emotional contagion. Ignorance of the occult +laws have caused the downfall of many a great +moral teacher, who could have protected himself +in this way, in times of strong attack of +low vibrations, had he but known the truth. +The individual who knows this law, and who +applies it, is rendered absolutely immune from +evil contagion on the emotional plane of being.</p> + + +<h4>THE GREAT AURIC CIRCLE.</h4> + +<p>But no occult instruction on this subject +would be complete without a reference to the +Great Auric Circle of Protection, which is a +shelter to the soul, mind, and body, against +outside psychic influences, directed, consciously +or unconsciously against the individual. +In these days of wide spread though imperfect, +knowledge of psychic phenomena, it +is especially important that one should be informed +as to this great shield of protection.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page84" id="page84"></a>[<a href="./images/84.png">84</a>]</span> +Omitting all reference to the philosophy underlying +it, it may be said that this Auric Circle +is formed by making the mental image, accompanied +by the demand of will, of the aura being +surrounded by a great band of PURE +CLEAR WHITE LIGHT. A little perseverance +will enable you to create this on the astral +plane, and, though (unless you have the astral +vision) you cannot see it actually, yet you will +actually FEEL its protective presence, so that +you will know that it is there guarding you.</p> + +<p>This White Auric Circle will be an effective +and infallible armor against all forms of +psychic attack or influence, no matter from +whom it may emanate, or whether directed +consciously or unconsciously. It is a perfect +and absolute protection, and the knowledge of +its protective power should be sufficient to +drive fear from the heart of all who have +dreaded psychic influence, "malicious animal +magnetism" (so-called), or anything else of +the kind, by whatever name known. It is also +a protection against psychic vampirism, or +draining of magnetic strength.</p> + +<p>The Auric Circle is, of course, really egg-shaped, +or oval, for it fringes the aura as the +shell cases the egg. See yourself, mentally, +as surrounded by this Great White Auric Circle<span class="pagenum"><a name="page85" id="page85"></a>[<a href="./images/85.png">85</a>]</span> +of Protection, and let the idea sink into +your consciousness. Realize its power over +the influences from outside, and rejoice in the +immunity it gives you.</p> + +<p>The Auric Circle, however, will admit any +outside impressions that you really desire to +come to you, while shutting out the others. +That is, with this exception, that if your inner +soul recognizes that some of these desired influences +and impressions are apt to harm you +(though your reason and feeling know it not) +then will such impressions be denied admittance. +For the White Light is the radiation +of Spirit, which is higher than ordinary mind, +emotion, or body and is Master of All. And +its power, even though we can but imperfectly +represent it even mentally, is such that before +its energy, and in its presence, in the aura, all +lower vibrations are neutralized and disintegrated.</p> + +<p>The highest and deepest occult teaching is +that the White Light must never be used for +purpose of attack or personal gain, but that it +may properly be used by anyone, at any time, +to protect against outside psychic influences +against which the soul protests. It is the +armor of the soul, and may well be employed +whenever or wherever the need arises.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page86" id="page86"></a>[<a href="./images/86.png">86</a>]</span></p> + +<p>Throughout the pages of this little book +have been scattered crumbs of teaching other +than those concerning the aura alone. Those +for whom these are intended will recognize +and appropriate them—the others will not see +them, and will pass them by. One attracts his +own to him. Much seed must fall on waste +places, in order that here and there a grain +will find lodgment in rich soil awaiting its +coming. True occult knowledge is practical +power and strength. Beware of prostituting +the higher teachings for selfish ends and +ignoble purposes. To guard and preserve your +own will is right; to seek to impose your will +upon that of another is wrong. Passive resistance +is often the strongest form of resistance—this +is quite different from non-resistance.</p> + +<hr class="shorter" /> + +<h3>THE END.</h3> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Human Aura, by Swami Panchadasi + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUMAN AURA *** + +***** This file should be named 22739-h.htm or 22739-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/7/3/22739/ + +Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Annika Feilbach and the +booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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a/22739.txt b/22739.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fa4709 --- /dev/null +++ b/22739.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2160 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Human Aura, by Swami Panchadasi + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Human Aura + Astral Colors and Thought Forms + +Author: Swami Panchadasi + +Release Date: September 23, 2007 [EBook #22739] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUMAN AURA *** + + + + +Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Annika Feilbach and the +booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.net + + + + + + + + + +_True Occult Knowledge Gives You Practical Power and Strength_ + + +THE HUMAN AURA +Astral Colors and Thought Forms + + +By +SWAMI PANCHADASI + + + +Printed by +YOGA PUBLICATION SOCIETY + +COPYRIGHT, 1940 + +COPYRIGHT +1912 +YOGI PUBLICATION SOCIETY + + + + +CONTENTS + + +Chapter I. What Is the Human Aura 5 + + The subtle, invisible emanation radiating from every individual. + An ethereal radiation. The egg-shaped human nebula. Psychic + atmosphere sensed by everyone, but seen by but few. The + clairvoyant vision. The phosphorescent flame, and luminous cloud. + The colors in the aura and what they mean. Effect of mental + states, emotion and passion, upon its aura. The human aura is a + very important and interesting phase of every personality. The + finer forces, the most powerful. + + +Chapter II. The Prana Aura 15 + + Prana, the Vital Force, Life Essence. How it affects the human + aura. Health Aura. Physical Aura. Health Magnetism. Peculiar + appearance of Prana Aura. How animals follow trails of Prana Aura + particles. The tiny electric sparks, and vibratory movements. How + one may perceive the vibrations of Prana Aura. Interesting + experiments. Seeing Prana Aura by ordinary vision. Prana Aura and + Magnetic Healing. + + +Chapter III. The Astral Colors 23 + + Each mental or emotional state has its own astral hue, tint, + shade or color. The Primary Colors, Red, Blue and Yellow. The + Secondary Colors, Green, Orange and Purple. The combinations of + Olive, Russet and Citrine. Black and White, and how formed. Key + to the Astral Colors. Red the Physical Color; Blue, the + Spiritual; Yellow, the Mental. White and Black the two poles of + Spirituality. Rainbow astral colors. Whirlpools of flame. Flashes + of astral light. A wonderful phenomena. Practice will enable + almost everyone to perceive plainly the outlines of the Prana + Aura. + + +Chapter IV. The Astral Colors (Continued) 31 + + Interpretations of the Astral Color Group. The Red Group. The + varying reds of vitality and health; the shades of love; high and + low; the crimson of sensuality; the scarlet plane of anger and + passion. The Yellow Group of Orange, and the Pride of Intellect. + The Golden Yellow of Intellectual Attainment. The haloes of the + great teachers. The lemon hue of inferior intellect. The Green + Group. The high and low greens. The green of love of nature. The + green of Altruism. The green of sympathy. The dull green of + insincerity and deceit. The ruddy green of Jealousy and malice. + The Blue Group. The great souls of the spiritual and religious + emotions. The Brown Group. The Gray Group. Black Group. White + Group. The Great White light. + + +Chapter V. The Aura Kaleidoscope 39 + + What the astral body is composed of. Also the etheric double. The + ever changing clouds of aura coloring. Placid scenes and furious + storms of the Aura. Opalescent effects. The pearly color of the + etheric substance. The Aura of mental activity. The Aura of + reverie or sleep. The Aura of anger and passion. The Aura of + hate. The Aura of love. The Aura of churches, prisons, hospitals + and places of vice. The Aura of character and of passing feeling. + Astral atmospheres of buildings and places. Collective and + composite auras. A key to some great and deep occult teachings, + and esoteric mysteries. How the trained occultist is able to + ascertain the character, and tendencies of a person. + + +Chapter VI. Thought Form 47 + + What a Thought Form is and what it is made of. How Thought Forms + are created. How Thought Forms travel. How Thought Forms affect + persons. Why some Thought Forms are semi-living, elemental + forces. Various forms and classes of Thought Forms. Full + description of their character, appearance and effect. Thought + Form whirls and swirls. Rotation Thought Forms. Thought Form + whirlpools. Explosive Thought Forms. Thought Form bombs. Octopus + Thought Form. How Thought Forms are projected and why they + travel. A wonderful study of a fascinating subject. + + +Chapter VII. Psychic Influence of Color 55 + + Action and Re-action. Effect of Color on Mental States and + Emotions. How certain tints affect persons favorably and + unfavorably. The calming effect of restful greens. "Seeing Red." + Gloomy Black. Depressing Grays. Angry Reds. Soothing Blues. + Illuminating Yellows. The Psychology of Color. Healing Effect of + Colors. The principles of Healing by Colors. Effect of color upon + character and morals. Color in Child Life. Interesting and + instructive information and teaching. + + +Chapter VIII. Auric Magnetism 63 + + Human Magnetism. The Auric Reservoir of Magnetism. Magnetic + Healing, how caused and why it occurs. Use of its hands. Flow of + etheric force. New Methods of Magnetic Healing. Use of Auric + Colors. Analysis and Full Explanation. Absent treatment by Auric + Color Vibration. Tables of Auric Healing Colors, showing effect + on Nervous System, Blood and Organs. Helpful suggestion in Auric + Color Healing. How to Treat yourself and others by this method. + Healing by the Great White Light. + + +Chapter IX. Developing the Aura 71 + + How to build up a strong, positive Aura. How to flood the Aura + with the right vibration. How to influence the color in the Aura. + "Holding the Thought." Reflecting Color States. Principles of + Occult Color Re-action. Self-analysis. Self-Treatment for + Character and Qualities. Effect of visualizing colors. How to get + the keynote of Color vibrations. The Key of Success. + + +Chapter X. The Protective Aura 79 + + A forbidden subject plainly discussed. Need of Occult protection. + How to change the Aura so that it will repel physical contagion + and psychic attacks. How to Guard the body by Auric Colors. How + to energize and illumine the mind, so as to protect against + mental influences. The protective Golden Aura. How to protect + your emotional nature from undesirable vibrations. The Great + Auric Circle of Protection. The oldest occultist's instructions + regarding building up of the protective Aura. How to fill the + aura with vibrations of health and physical strength. How to + protect yourself from the low passions and feelings of others. + The Aura of great moral teachers. How those in ignorance of + occult laws have been led from the moral path. The Auric Circle + of Protection. The crumbs of teaching scattered through this + book, other than those concerning the Aura. Those for whom these + teachings are intended will recognize and appreciate them. A + shelter for soul, mind and body against psychic influence. An + infallible Armor against all force of attack. The Great White + Light. Words from the Master. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +WHAT IS THE HUMAN AURA? + + +The above question is frequently asked the student of occultism by some +one who has heard the term but who is unfamiliar with its meaning. +Simple as the question may seem, it is by no means easy to answer it, +plainly and clearly in a few words, unless the hearer already has a +general acquaintance with the subject of occult science. Let us commence +at the beginning, and consider the question from the point of view of +the person who has just heard the term for the first time. + +The dictionaries define the word aura as: "Any subtle, invisible +emanation or exhalation." The English authorities, as a rule, attribute +the origin of the word to a Latin term meaning "air," but the Hindu +authorities insist that it had its origin in the Sanscrit root _Ar_, +meaning the spoke of a wheel, the significance being perceived when we +remember the fact that the human aura radiates from the body of the +individual in a manner similar to the radiation of the spokes of a wheel +from the hub thereof. The Sanscrit origin of the term is the one +preferred by occultists, although it will be seen that the idea of an +aerial emanation, indicated by the Latin root, is not foreign to the +real significance of the term. + +Be the real origin of the term what it may, the idea of the human aura +is one upon which all occultists are in full agreement and harmony, and +the mention of which is found in all works upon the general subject of +occultism. So we shall begin by a consideration of the main conception +thereof, as held by all advanced occultists, ancient and modern, +omitting little points of theoretical variance between the different +schools. + +Briefly, then, the human aura may be described as a fine, ethereal +radiation or emanation surrounding each and every living human being. It +extends from two to three feet, in all directions, from the body. It +assumes an oval shape--a great egg-shaped nebula surrounding the body on +all sides for a distance of two or three feet. This aura is sometimes +referred to, in ordinary terms, as the "psychic atmosphere" of a person, +or as his "magnetic atmosphere." + +This atmosphere or aura is apparent to a large percentage of persons in +the sense of the psychic awareness generally called "feeling," though +the term is not a clear one. The majority of persons are more or less +aware of that subtle something about the personality of others, which +can be sensed or felt in a clear though unusual way when the other +persons are near by, even though they may be out of the range of the +vision. Being outside of the ordinary range of the five senses, we are +apt to feel that there is something queer or uncanny about these +feelings of projected personality. But every person, deep in his heart, +knows them to be realities and admits their effect upon his impressions +regarding the persons from whom they emanate. Even small children, +infants even, perceive this influence, and respond to it in the matter +of likes and dislikes. + +But, human testimony regarding the existence and character of the human +aura does not stop with the reports of the psychic senses to which we +have just referred. There are many individuals of the race--a far +greater percentage than is generally imagined--who have the gift of +psychic sight more or less developed. Many persons have quite a +well-developed power of this kind, who do not mention it to their +acquaintances for fear of ridicule, or of being thought "queer." In +addition to these persons, there are here and there to be found +well-developed, clear-sighted, or truly clairvoyant persons, whose +powers of psychic perception are as highly developed as are the ordinary +senses of the average individual. And, the reports of these persons, far +apart in time and space though they may be, have always agreed on the +main points of psychic phenomena, particularly in regards to the human +aura. + +To the highly developed clairvoyant vision, every human being is seen as +surrounded by the egg-shaped aura of two or three feet in depth, more +dense and thick in the portion nearest the body, and then gradually +becoming more tenuous, thin and indistinct as the distance from the body +is increased. By the psychic perception, the aura is seen as a luminous +cloud--a phosphorescent flame--deep and dense around the centre and then +gradually shading into indistinctness toward the edges. As a matter of +fact, as all developed occultists know, the aura really extends very +much further than even the best clairvoyant vision can perceive it, and +its psychic influence is perceptible at quite a distance in many cases. +In this respect it is like any flame on the physical plane--it +gradually fades into indistinctness, its rays persisting far beyond the +reach of the vision, as may be proved by means of chemical apparatus, +etc. + +To the highly developed clairvoyant vision, the human aura is seen to be +composed of all the colors of the spectrum, the combinations of colors +differing in various persons, and constantly shifting in the case of +every person. These colors reflect the mental (particularly the +emotional) states of the person in whose aura they are manifested. Each +mental state has its own particular combination formed from the few +elementary colors which represent the elementary mental conditions. As +the mind is ever shifting and changing its states, it follows that there +will ever be a corresponding series of shifting changes in the colors of +the human aura. + +The shades and colors of the aura present an ever changing kaleidoscopic +spectacle, of wonderful beauty and most interesting character. The +trained occultist is able to read the character of any person, as well +as the nature of his passing thoughts and feelings, by simply studying +the shifting colors of his aura. To the developed occultist the mind and +character become as an open book, to be studied carefully and +intelligently. + +Even the student of occultism, who has not been able to develop the +clairvoyant vision to such a high degree, is soon able to develop the +sense of psychic perception whereby he is able to at least "feel" the +vibrations of the aura, though he may not see the colors, and thus be +able to interpret the mental states which have caused them. The +principle is of course the same, as the colors are but the outward +appearance of the vibrations themselves, just as the ordinary colors on +the physical plane are merely the outward manifestation of vibration of +matter. + +But it must not be supposed that the human aura is always perceived in +the appearance of a luminous cloud of ever-changing color. When we say +that such is its characteristic appearance, we mean it in the same sense +that we describe the ocean as a calm, deep body of greenish waters. We +know, however, that at times the ocean presents no such appearance, but, +instead, is seen as rising in great mountainous waves, white capped, and +threatening the tiny vessels of men with its power. Or again, we may +define the word "flame" in the sense of a steady bright stream of +burning gas, whereas, we know only too well, that the word also +indicates the great hot tongues of fiery force that stream out from the +windows of a burning building, and lick to destruction all with which it +comes in contact. + +So it is with the human aura. At times it may be seen as a beautiful, +calm, luminous atmosphere, presenting the appearance of a great opal +under the rays of the sun. Again, it blazes like the flames of a great +furnace, shooting forth great tongues of fire in this direction and +that, rising and falling in great waves of emotional excitement, or +passion, or perhaps whirling like a great fiery maelstrom toward its +centre, or swirling in an outward movement away from its centre. Again +it may be seen as projecting from its depths smaller bodies or centres +of mental vibration, which like sparks from a furnace detach themselves +from the parent flame, and travel far away in other directions--these +are the projected thought-forms of which all occultists are fond of +speaking and which make plain many strange psychic occurrences. + +So, it will be seen, the human aura is a very important and interesting +phase of the personality of every individual. The psychic phase of man +is as much the man himself as is the physical phase--the complete man +being made up of the two phases. Man invisible is as much the real man +as is man visible. As the finer forms of nature are always the most +powerful, so is the psychic man more potent than the physical man. + +In this book, I speak of the human aura, and its colors, as being +perceived by astral or clairvoyant vision, for this is the way in which +it is perceived and studied by the occultist. The occult teaching is +that, in the evolution of the race, this astral vision will eventually +become the common property of every human being--it so exists even now, +and needs only development to perfect it. + +But modern physical science is today offering corroborative proof +(though the same is not needed by the occultist who has the astral +vision) to the general public, of the existence of the human aura. In +Europe, especially, a number of scientists have written on the subject +of the aura, and have described the result of the experiments in which +the aura has been perceived, and even photographed, by means of +fluorescent screens, such as are used in taking X-Ray photographs, etc. +Leading authorities in England, France, and still more recently, in +Germany, have reported the discovery (!) of a nebulous, hazy, +radio-active energy or substance, around the body of human beings. In +short, they now claim that every human being is radio-active, and that +the auric radiation may be registered and perceived by means of a screen +composed of certain fluorescent material, interposed between the eye of +the observer, and the person observed. + +This aura, so discovered (!) by the scientists, is called by them the +"human atmosphere," and is classified by them as similar to the +radiations of other radio-active substances, radium, for instance. They +have failed to discover color in this atmosphere, however, and know +nothing, apparently, of the relation between auric colors and mental and +emotional states, which are so familiar to every advanced occultist. I +mention this fact merely as a matter of general interest and information +to the student, and not as indicating, even in the slightest degree, any +idea on my part that the old occult teaching, and the observed phenomena +accompanying the same, regarding the human aura, require any proof or +backing up on the part of material scientists. On the contrary, I feel +that material science should feel flattered by the backing up by occult +science of the new discovery (!) of the "human atmosphere." A little +later on, material science may also discover (!) the auric colors, and +announce the same to the wondering world, as a new truth. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +THE PRANA-AURA. + + +Many writers on the subject of the human aura content themselves with a +description of the colors of the mental or emotional aura, and omit +almost any reference whatsoever to the basic substance or power of the +aura. This is like the play of Hamlet, with the character of Hamlet +omitted, for, unless we understand something concerning the fundamental +substance of which the aura is composed, we cannot expect to arrive at a +clear understanding of the phenomena which arises from and by reason of +the existence of this fundamental substance. We might as well expect a +student to understand the principles of color, without having been made +acquainted with the principles of light. + +The fundamental substance of which the human aura is composed is none +other than that wonderful principle of nature of which one reads so much +in all occult writings, which has been called by many names, but which +is perhaps best known under the Sanscrit term, _Prana_, but which may +be thought of as Vital Essence, Life Power, etc. + +It is not necessary in this book to go into the general consideration of +the nature and character of Prana. It is sufficient for us to consider +it in its manifestation of Vital Force, Life Essence, etc. In its +broadest sense, Prana really is the Principle of Energy in Nature, but +in its relation to living forms it is the Vital Force which lies at the +very basis of manifested Life. It exists in all forms of living things, +from the most minute microscopic form up to living creatures on higher +planes, as much higher than man as man is higher than the simple +microscopic life-forms. It permeates them all, and renders possible all +life activity and functioning. + +Prana is not the mind or the soul, but is rather the force or energy +through which the soul manifests activity, and the mind manifests +thought. It is the steam that runs the physical and mental machinery of +life. It is the substance of the human aura, and the colors of mental +states are manifested in that substance, just as the colors of chemical +bodies are manifested in the substance of water. But Prana is not +material substance--it is higher than mere matter, being the underlying +substance of Energy or Force in Nature. + +While it is true, as we have seen, that all auras are composed of the +substance of Prana, it is likewise true that there is a simple and +elementary form of auric substance to which occultists have given the +simple name of the prana-aura in order to distinguish it from the more +complex forms and phases of the human aura. The simplicity of the +character of the prana-aura causes it to be more readily sensed or +perceived than is possible in the case of the more complex phases or +forms of the aura. For whereas it is only the more sensitive organisms +that can distinguish the finer vibrations of the mental and emotional +aura, and only the clairvoyant sight which can discern its presence by +its colors, almost any person, by a little careful experimenting, may +become aware of the presence of the prana-aura, not only in the way of +"feeling" it, but in many cases of actually seeing it with the ordinary +vision rightly directed. + +That which is known as the prana-aura is of course the most simple form +or phase of the human aura. It is the form or phase which is more +closely bound up with the physical body, and is less concerned with the +mental states. This fact has caused some writers to speak of it as the +"health aura," or "physical aura," both of which terms are fittingly +applied as we shall see, although we prefer the simpler term we have +used here, i. e., the prana-aura. For the prana-aura does show the state +of the health of the individual radiating it, and it also really +contains physical power and magnetism which may be, and is imparted to +others. + +The basic prana-aura is practically colorless, that is to say, it is +about the color of the clearest water or a very clear diamond. By the +clairvoyant vision it is seen to be streaked or marked by very minute, +bristle-like lines, radiating outward from the physical body of the +individual, in a manner very like "the quills upon the fretful +porcupine," as Shakespeare puts it. In the case of excellent physical +health, these bristle-like streaks are stiff and brittle-looking, +whereas, if the general health of the person be deficient these +bristle-like radiations seem to be more or less tangled, twisted, or +curly; and, in some cases present a drooping appearance, and in extreme +cases present the appearance of soft, limp fur. + +It may interest the student to know that minute particles of this +prana-aura, or vital magnetism, is sloughed off the body in connection +with physical exhalations such as scent, etc., and remain in existence +for some time after the person has passed from the particular place at +which they were cast off. In fact, as all occultists know, it is these +particles of the prana-aura which serve to give vitality to the "scent" +of living creatures, which enables dogs and other animals to trace up +the track of the person, or animal, for a long time after the person has +passed. It is not alone the physical odor, which must be very slight as +you will see upon a moment's consideration. It is really the presence of +the particles of the prana-aura which enables the dog to distinguish the +traces of one person among that of thousands of others, and the feat is +as much psychical as physical. + +Another peculiarity of the prana-aura is that it is filled with a +multitude of extremely minute sparkling particles, resembling tiny +electric sparks, which are in constant motion. These sparks, which are +visible to persons of only slightly developed psychic power, impart a +vibratory motion to the prana-aura which, under certain conditions is +plainly visible to the average person. This vibratory movement is akin +to the movement of heated air arising from a hot stove, or from the +heated earth on a mid-summer day. + +If the student will close his eyes partially, until he peers out from +narrowed lids, and then will closely observe some very healthy person +sitting in a dim light, he may perceive this undulating, pulsing +vibration extending an inch or two from the surface of the body. It +requires some little knack to recognize these vibrations, but a little +practice will often give one the key; and after the first recognition, +the matter becomes easy. + +Again, in the case of persons of active brains, one may perceive this +pulsating prana-aura around the head of the person, particularly when he +is engaged in concentrated active thought. A little practice will enable +almost any one to perceive faintly the dim outlines of the prana-aura +around his own fingers and hand, by placing his hand against a black +background, in a dim light, and then gazing at it with narrowed +eye-lids, squinting if necessary. Under these circumstances, after a +little practice, one will be apt to perceive a tiny outlined aura, or +radiation, or halo, of pale yellowish light surrounding the hand. + +By extending the fingers, fan shape, you will perceive that each finger +is showing its own little outlined prana-aura. The stronger the vital +force, the plainer will be the perception of the phenomenon. Often the +prana-aura, in these experiments, will appear like the semi-luminous +radiance surrounding a candle flame or gas light. Under the best +conditions, the radiation will assume an almost phosphorescent +appearance. Remember, this is simply a matter of trained ordinary +sight,--not clairvoyant vision. + +This prana-aura is identical with human magnetism, which is employed in +ordinary magnetic healing. That is to say it is the outer manifestation +of the wonderful pranic force. It is felt when you shake hands, or +otherwise come in close physical contact with a strongly magnetic +person. On the other hand it is what the weakly, human vampire-like +persons unconsciously, or consciously, try to draw off from strong +persons, if the latter allow them so to do from want of knowledge of +self protection. Who has not met persons of this kind, who seem to sap +one's very life force away from him? Remember, then, that the prana-aura +is the aura or radiation of life force, or vital power, which is the +steam of your living activity, physical and mental. It is the pouring +out of the vital "steam" which is running your vital machinery. Its +presence indicates Life--its absence Lifelessness. + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE ASTRAL COLORS. + + +The term "astral," so frequently employed by all occultists, is +difficult to explain or define except to those who have pursued a +regular course of study in occult science. For the purpose of the +present consideration, it is enough to say that over and above the +ordinary physical sense plane there is another and more subtle plane, +known as the Astral Plane. Every human being possesses the innate and +inherent faculty of sensing the things of this astral plane, by means of +an extension or enlargement of the powers of the ordinary senses, so to +speak. But, in the majority of persons in the present stage of +development, these astral senses are lying dormant, and only here and +there do we find individuals who are able to sense on the astral plane, +although in the course of evolution the entire race will be able to do +so, of course. The colors of the human aura, mentioned in the preceding +two chapters, and which arise from the various mental and emotional +states, belong to the phenomena of the astral plane, and hence bear the +name of "the astral colors." Belonging to the astral plane, and not to +the ordinary physical plane, they are perceived only by the senses +functioning on the astral plane, and are invisible to the ordinary +physical plane sight. But, to those who have developed the astral sight, +or clairvoyance, these colors are as real as are the ordinary colors to +the average person, and their phenomena have been as carefully recorded +by occult science as have the physical plane colors by physical science. +The fact that to the ordinary physical senses they are invisible, does +not render them any the less real. Remember, in this connection, that to +the blind man our physical colors do not exist. And, for that matter, +the ordinary colors do not exist to "color blind" persons. The ordinary +physical plane person is simply "color blind" to the astral +colors--that's all. + +On the astral plane each shade of mental or emotional state has its +corresponding astral color, the latter manifesting when the form +appears. It follows then, of course, that when once the occultist has +the key to this color correspondence, and thus is able to perceive the +astral colors by means of his astral vision, he also is able to read the +mental and emotional states of any person within the range of his +vision, as easily as you are now reading the printed words of this book. + +Before proceeding to a consideration of the list of astral colors in the +human aura, I wish to call your attention to a slight variation in the +case of the prana-aura, of which I have spoken in our last chapter. I +have stated therein that the prana-aura is colorless like a diamond or +clear water. This is true in the average case, but in the case of a +person of very strong physical vitality or virility, the prana-aura +takes on, at times, a faint warm pink tinge, which is really a +reflection from the red astral color, of the meaning of which color you +shall now learn. + +Like their physical plane counterparts, all the astral colors are formed +from three Primary Colors, namely (1) Red; (2) Blue; and (3) Yellow. +From these three primary colors, all other colors are formed. Following +the Primary Colors, we find what are known as the Secondary Colors, +namely: (1) Green, derived from a combination of Yellow and Blue; (2) +Orange, formed from a combination of Yellow and Red; and (3) Purple, +formed from a combination of Red and Blue. Further combinations produce +the other colors, as for instance, Green and Purple form Olive; Orange +and Purple form Russet; Green and Orange form Citrine. + +Black is called an absence of color, while White is really a harmonious +blending of all colors, strange as this may appear to one who has not +studied the subject. The blending of the Primary Colors in varied +proportions produce what is known as the "hues" of color. Adding white +to the hues, we obtain "tints;" while mixing Black produces "shades." +Strictly speaking Black and White are known as "neutral" colors. + +Now for the meaning of the astral colors--that is, the explanation of +the mental or emotional state represented by each. I ask that the +student familiarize himself with the meaning of the Primary Colors and +their combinations. A clear understanding of the key of the astral +colors is often an aid in the development of astral sight. + + +KEY TO THE ASTRAL COLORS. + +RED. Red represents the physical phase of mentality. That is to say, it +stands for that part of the mental activities which are concerned with +physical life. It is manifested by the vitality of the body, and in +other hues, tints and shades, is manifested by passions, anger, +physical cravings, etc. I shall describe the various forms of Red +manifestation, a little later on. + +BLUE. Blue represents the religious, or spiritual, phase of mentality. +That is to say, it stands for that part of the mental activities which +are concerned with high ideals, altruism, devotion, reverence, +veneration, etc. It is manifested, in its various hues, tints, and +shades, by all forms of religious feeling and emotion, high and low, as +we shall see as we proceed. + +YELLOW. Yellow represents the intellectual phase of mentality. That is +to say, it stands for that part of the mental activities which are +concerned with reasoning, analysis, judgment, logical processes, +induction, deduction, synthesis, etc. In its various hues, tints and +shades, it is manifested by the various forms of intellectual activity, +high and low, as we shall see as we proceed. + +WHITE. White stands for what occultists know as Pure Spirit, which is a +very different thing from the religious emotion of "spirituality," and +which really is the essence of the ALL that really is. Pure Spirit is +the positive pole of Being. We shall see the part played by it in the +astral colors, as we proceed. + +BLACK. Black stands for the negative pole of Being--the very negation of +Pure Spirit, and opposing it in every way. We shall see the part played +by it in the astral colors as we proceed. + +The various combinations of the three Astral Primary Colors are formed +in connection with Black and White as well as by the blending of the +three themselves. These combinations, of course, result from the shades +of mental and emotional activity manifested by the individuality, of +which they are the reflection and the key. + +The combinations and blending of the astral colors, however, are +numberless, and present an almost infinite variety. Not only is the +blending caused by the mixing of the colors themselves, in connection +with black and white, but in many cases the body of one color is found +to be streaked, striped, dotted or clouded by other colors. At times +there is perceived the mixture of two antagonistic color streams +fighting against each other before blending. Again we see the effect of +one color neutralizing another. + +In some cases great black clouds obscure the bright colors beneath, and +then darken the fierce glow of color, just as is often witnessed in the +case of a physical conflagration. Again, we find great flashes of bright +yellow, or red, flaring across the field of the aura, showing agitation +or the conflict of intellect and passion. + +The average student, who has not developed the astral vision, is +inclined to imagine that the astral colors in the human aura present the +appearance of an egg-shaped rainbow, or spectrum, or something of that +sort. But this is a great mistake. In the first place, the astral colors +are seldom at rest, for all mental and emotional activity is the result +of vibration, change, and rhythmic motion. Consequently, the colors of +the aura present a kaleidoscopic appearance, of constant change of +color, shape and grouping--a great electrical display, so to speak, +constantly shifting, changing, and blending. + +Great tongues of flamelike emanations project themselves beyond the +border of the aura, under strong feeling or excitement, and great +vibratory whirls and swirls are manifested. The sight is most +fascinating, although somewhat terrifying at first. Nature is wise in +bestowing the gift of astral vision only gradually and by almost +imperceptible stages of advance. There are many unpleasant, as well as +pleasant, sights on the Astral Plane. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +THE ASTRAL COLORS (Continued). + + +Remembering, always, the significance of the three primary colors on the +astral plane, let us consider the meaning of the combinations, shades, +hues, and tints of these colors. + +THE RED GROUP. In this group of astral colors seen in the human aura, we +find strongly in evidence the clear bright red shade, similar to that of +fresh, pure arterial blood as it leaves the heart, filled with pure +material freshly oxygenated. This shade, in the aura, indicates health, +life-force, vigor, virility, etc., in pure and untainted form. The aura +of a healthy, strong child shows this shade of color very plainly and +strongly. + +Strong, pure natural emotions, such as friendship, love of +companionship, love of physical exercise, healthy clean sports, etc., +are manifested by a clear clean shade of red. When these feelings become +tainted with selfishness, low motives, etc., the shade grows darker and +duller. Love of low companionship, unclean sports, or selfish games, +etc., produce an unpleasant muddy red shade. + +A shade of red, very near to crimson, is the astral color of Love, but +the tint and shade varies greatly according to the nature of this form +of emotional feeling. A very high form of love, which seeks the good of +the loved one, rather than the satisfaction of oneself, manifests as a +beautiful rose tint--one of the most pleasing of the astral tints, by +the way. Descending in the scale, we find the crimson shade becoming +darker and duller, until we descend to the plane of impure, sensual, +coarse passion, which is manifested by an ugly, dull, muddy crimson of a +repulsive appearance, suggesting blood mixed with dirty earth or +barnyard soil. + +A peculiar series of red shades are those manifesting anger in its +various forms, from the vivid scarlet flashes of anger color, arising +from what may be called "righteous indignation," down the scale to the +ugly flashes of deep, dull red, betokening rage and uncontrolled +passion. The red of anger generally shows itself in flashes, or great +leaping flames, often accompanied by a black background, in the case of +malicious hate, or by a dirty, greenish background when the rage arises +from jealousy, or envy. The color of avarice is a very ugly combination +of dull, dark red, and a dirty ugly green. If persons could see their +own astral colors accompanying these undesirable mental states, the +sight would perhaps so disgust them with such states as to work a cure. +At any rate, they are most disgusting and repulsive to the occultist who +beholds them in the human aura, and he often wonders why they do not +sicken the person manifesting them--they often do just this thing, to +tell the truth. + +THE YELLOW GROUP. In this group of astral colors seen in the human aura +we find as many varieties as we do in the red group. Yellow, denoting +intellect, has many degrees of shade and tint, and many degrees of +clearness. + +An interesting shade in this group is that of Orange, which represents +different forms of "pride of intellect," intellectual ambition, love of +mastery by will, etc. The greater degree of red in the astral orange +color, the greater the connection with the physical or animal nature. +Pride and love of power over others, has much red in its astral color, +while love of intellectual mastery has much less red in its composition. + +Pure intellectual attainment, and the love of the same, is manifested by +a beautiful clear golden yellow. Great teachers often have this so +strongly in evidence, that at times their students have glimpses of a +golden "halo" around the head of the teacher. Teachers of great +spirituality have this "nimbus" of golden yellow, with a border of +beautiful blue tint, strongly in evidence. + +The paintings of the great spiritual teachers of the race usually have +this radiance pictured as a "halo," showing a recognition of the +phenomenon on the part of the great artists. Hoffman's celebrated +painting of the Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane shows this nimbus so +accurately depicted that the occultist is convinced that this artist +must have actually witnessed a similar scene in the astral light, so +true to the astral facts are its details. The images of the Buddha also +show this radiance. + +The rich golden shades of intellectual yellow are comparatively rare, a +sickly lemon color being the only indication of intellectual power and +found in the aura of the great run of persons. To the sight of the +occultist, employing his power of astral vision, a crowd of persons will +manifest here and there, at widely separated points, the bright golden +yellow of the true intellect, appearing like scattered lighted candles +among a multitude of faintly burning matches. + +THE GREEN GROUP. This is a peculiar group, consisting as of course it +does of various combinations of blues and yellows, tinted and shaded by +white or black. Even skilled occultists find it very difficult to +account for the fact of certain green shades arising from the spiritual +blue and the intellectual yellow--this is one of the most obscure points +in the whole subject of the astral colors, and none but the most +advanced occultists are able to explain the "why" in some instances. To +those who are fond of analysis of this kind, I will drop the following +hint, which may help them out in the matter, viz. The key is found in +the fact that Green lies in the centre of the astral spectrum, and is a +balance between the two extremes, and is also influenced by these two +extremes in a startling manner. + +A certain restful green denotes love of nature, out of door life, travel +in the country, etc., and also, slightly differing in tint, the love of +home scenes, etc. Again, a clear beautiful lighter tint of green +indicates what may be called sympathy, altruistic emotion, charity, etc. +Again, illustrating variety in this group of astral colors, another +shade of green shows intellectual tolerance of the views of others. +Growing duller, this indicates tact, diplomacy, ability to handle human +nature, and descending another degree or so blends into insincerity, +shiftiness, untruth, etc. There is an ugly slate-colored green +indicating low, tricky deceit--this is a very common shade in the colors +of the average aura, I am sorry to say. Finally, a particularly ugly, +muddy, murky green indicates jealousy and kindred feelings, envious +malice, etc. + +THE BLUE GROUP. This interesting group of astral colors represents the +varying forms and degrees of religious emotion, "spirituality," etc. The +highest form of spiritual, religious feeling and thought is represented +by a beautiful, rich, clear violet tint, while the lower and more gross +phases of religious emotion and thought are represented by the darker +and duller hues, tints, and shades until a deep, dark indigo is reached, +so dark that it can scarcely be distinguished from a bluish black. This +latter color, as might be expected, indicates a low superstitious form +of religion, scarcely worthy of the latter name. Religion, we must +remember, has its low places as well as its heights--its garden grows +the rarest flowers, and at the same time the vilest weeds. + +High spiritual feelings--true spiritual unfoldment--is indicated by a +wonderfully clear light blue, of an unusual tint, something akin to the +clear light blue of the sky on a cool autumn afternoon, just before +sunset. Even when we witness an approach to this color in Nature, we are +inspired by an uplifting feeling as if we were in the presence of higher +things, so true is the intuition regarding these things. + +Morality, of a high degree, is indicated by a series of beautiful shades +of blue, always of a clear inspiring tint. Religious feeling ruled by +fear, is indicated by a shade of bluish gray. Purple denotes a love of +form and ceremony, particularly those connected with religious offices +or regal grandeur of a solemn kind. Purple, naturally, was chosen as the +royal color in the olden days. + +THE BROWN GROUP. The brown group of astral colors represents desire for +gain and accumulation, ranging from the clear brown of industrious +accumulation, to the murky dull browns of miserliness, greed and +avarice. There is a great range in this group of brown shades, as may be +imagined. + +THE GRAY GROUP. The group of grays represents a negative group of +thought and emotions. Gray represents fear, depression, lack of +courage, negativity, etc. This is an undesirable and unpleasant group. + +BLACK. Black, in the astral colors, stands for hatred, malice, revenge, +and "devilishness" generally. It shades the brighter colors into their +lower aspects, and robs them of their beauty. It stands for hate--also +for gloom, depression, pessimism, etc. + +WHITE. White is the astral color of Pure Spirit, as we have seen, and +its presence raises the degree of the other colors, and renders them +clearer. In fact, the perception of the highest degree of Being known to +the most advanced occultist is manifested to the highest adepts and +masters in the form of "The Great White Light," which transcends any +light ever witnessed by the sight of man on either physical or astral +plane--for it belongs to a plane higher than either, and is absolute, +rather than a relative, white. The presence of white among the astral +colors of the human aura, betokens a high degree of spiritual attainment +and unfoldment, and when seen permeating the entire aura it is one of +the Signs of the Master--the token of Adeptship. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +THE AURIC KALEIDOSCOPE. + + +As we have seen, the human aura is never in a state of absolute rest or +quiet. Motion and change is ever manifested by it. It has its periods of +comparative calm, of course, but even in this state there is a pulsing, +wave-like motion apparent. The clouds of changing color fly over its +surface, and in its depth, like the fast driven fleecy clouds over the +summer sky, illumined by the rays of the setting sun. + +Again, fierce storms of mental activity, or emotional stress, disturb +its comparative calm, and the wildest scenes are witnessed in the aura +by the observer. So intense are the vibrations of some of these mental +storms that their effect is plainly felt by the average person, though +he is not able to distinguish the colors or the great whirls and swirls +of auric substance accompanying them. + +A person sunk in reverie, dream-states, or sleep, presents an +interesting auric kaleidoscope, which possesses great beauty if the +person be normal and of average morality. In such a case there is a +cloudy-clearness (if the term may be used) tinged with tints and shades +of varying colors, blending in strange and interesting combinations, +appearing gradually from previous combinations, and sinking gradually +into new ones. + +To the observer of the aura the term "opalescent" instinctly presents +itself, for there is a striking resemblance to the opaline peculiar play +of colors of delicate tints and shades in a body of pearly or milky hue. +Color shades into color, tint into tint, hue into hue, as in the color +scale of the spectrum of which the rainbow is the most familiar example. +But the rainbow or spectrum lacks the peculiar semi-transparency of the +auric colors, and also the constantly changing and dissolving body of +colors of the aura. + +At this point, I wish to call your attention to a phase of the aura +which I purposely passed over in the preceding chapters. I allude to the +phase of the aura which presents the "pearly" appearance of the +opalescent body, which we have just noted. This appearance is manifested +neither by any of the mental or emotional states, nor is it the +prana-aura or vital force which I have described in a previous chapter. +It is the manifestation of what is known to occultists as "etheric +substance," and is a very interesting feature of the auric phenomena. + +This etheric substance, which manifests this peculiar radiance in the +body of the aura, composes that which is called by some occultists "the +astral body," but this latter term is also employed in another sense, +and I prefer to use the term "etheric double" to indicate what some +others know as "the astral body." Etheric substance is much finer form +of substance than that which composes the physical body. It is really +matter in a very high degree of vibration--much higher than even the +ultra-gaseous matter of physical substance. It may be sensed, +ordinarily, only on the astral plane, which is its own particular plane +of activity. + +The etheric double, composed of this etheric substance, is the exact +counterpart of its physical counterpart--the ordinary physical body of +the individual--although it is capable of great expansion or shrinking +in space. Like the physical body it radiates an aura, and this combining +with the other forms of the auric body, gives to it its peculiar pearly +appearance, which is the background of its opalescence previously noted. + +The etheric double explains the phenomenon of spectral appearances or +ghosts, for it persists for a time after the death of the physical body, +and under some conditions becomes visible to the ordinary sight. It +sometimes is projected from the physical body, and at such times appears +as an apparition of the living, of which there are many cases recorded +by the societies investigating psychical subjects. + +The etheric double, or astral body, is referred to here, however, merely +to explain the peculiar pearly tint of the background, or body, of the +aura, in and through which the mental and emotional auric colors play +and move. It may interest you, however, to know that this phase of aura +is always present around and about a "ghost" or dematerialized +disembodied soul, or "spirit" as common usage terms it. + +The aura of the wide-awake person is, of course, far more active and +more deeply colored than is that of the person in reverie, dream, or +sleep. And, again the aura of the person manifesting a high degree of +mental activity, or strong feeling or passion, is still brighter and +deeper than the ordinary person performing his daily routine work. In +the state of anger, or love-passion, for instance, the aura is +violently disturbed, deep shades of color whirling and swirling in the +depths and surface of the auric body. Lightning-like flashes shoot forth +and great bodies of lurid smoky clouds fly on the surface. Looking into +the aura of a man wild with rage and passion, is like peering into +Inferno. The astral plane, in the region of a lynching mob, or other +body of persons filled with rage, becomes a frightful scene of auric +radiation. + +A person filled with the emotion of pure love, fills his aura with the +most beautiful tints and shades of high rosy color, and to behold the +same is a pleasure fully appreciated by the occultist. A church filled +with persons of a high devotional ideality, is also a beautiful place, +by reason of the mingling of auric violet-blue vibrations of those +therein assembled. The atmosphere of a prison is most depressing and +presents a most unpleasant appearance to one possessing the astral +vision. Likewise the astral atmosphere of an abode of vice and passion, +becomes really physically nauseating to the occultist of high ideals and +taste. Such scenes on the astral plane are avoided by all true +occultists, except when the call of duty leads them to visit them to +give aid and help. + +There are two distinct features connected with the auric coloring of +every person. The first is the coloring resulting from the more habitual +thoughts and feelings of the person--from his character, in fact; while +the second is the coloring resulting from the particular feelings, or +thoughts, manifested by him at that particular moment or time. + +The color of the feeling of the moment soon disappears and fades away, +while the more habitual feeling, bound up with his character, causes its +corresponding color to abide more permanently, and thus to give a +decided hue to his general auric color appearance. + +The trained occultist is, therefore, able to ascertain not only the +passing thoughts and feelings of a person, but also to determine +infallibly his general character, tendencies, past character and +actions, and general nature, simply from a careful examination and study +of the auric colors of the person in question. + +As all occultists well know, every place, dwelling, business place, +church, courtroom--every village, city, country, nation--has its own +collective aura, known as "astral atmosphere," which is simply but a +combined reflection of the individual auras of the human units of which +its body of inhabitants is made up. These atmospheric vibrations are +plainly felt by many persons, and we are instinctively attracted or +repelled by reason thereof. But, to the developed occultists, these +places manifest the auric colors, in the combinations arising from the +nature of the mentalities of the persons dwelling in them. + +Each place has its collective aura, just as each person has his +individual aura. The astral plane presents a wonderful scene of color by +reason of this and similar causes. The harmony of the color scheme, in +some cases, is marvellously beautiful; while the horrible aspect of +scenes resemble a nightmare vision of the worst kind. + +It is easy to understand why some of the ancients who stumbled into +glimpses of the astral plane, while in dream-state or trance, reported +the vision of terrible hells of unquenchable fire, fiery lakes of +smoking brimstone, etc., for such ideas would naturally come to the mind +of the uninformed person who had peered into the astral plane in such +cases. + +And, in the same way, the visions of heaven reported by the saints, and +others of high spirituality, are explainable on the theory that these +persons had sensed some of the beautiful scenes of the higher astral +planes, filled with the combined auric tints and hues of souls of high +development. The principle of auric colors holds good on all the many +planes of being and existence--high as well as low. + +I merely hint at a great occult truth in making the above statements. +The thoughtful will be able to read between my lines. I have given you a +little key which will unlock the door of many mysteries, if you will but +use it intelligently. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +THOUGHT FORMS. + + +That interesting phase of occult phenomena, known as "thought forms," is +so closely related to the general subject of the human aura that a +mention of one must naturally lead to the thought of the other. +Thought-forms are built up of the very material composing the aura, and +manifest all of the general characteristics thereof, even to the auric +colors. An understanding of the facts of the human aura is necessary for +a correct understanding of the nature of the thought-forms composed of +the same substance. + +A "thought form" is a peculiar manifestation of mental activity on the +astral plane. It is more than a powerful disturbance in the body of the +human aura, although this is the place of its embodiment or birth in the +objective world. It is formed in the following manner: A person +manifests a strong desire, feeling or idea, which is naturally filled +with the dynamic force of his will. This sets up a series of strong +vibrations in the body of the aura, which gradually resolve themselves +into a strong whirling centre of thought-force involved in a mass of +strongly cohesive auric substance, and strongly charged with the power +of the prana of the person. + +In some cases these thought forms survive in the auric body for some +little time, and then gradually fade away. In other cases they survive +and maintain an almost independent existence for some time, and exert a +strong influence upon other persons coming in the presence of the +person. Again, these thought forms may be so strongly charged with +prana, and so imbued with the mental force of the person, that they will +actually be thrown off and away from the aura itself, and travel in +space until they exhaust their initial energy--in the meantime exerting +an influence upon the psychic aura of other persons. + +A thought-form is more than merely a strongly manifested thought--it +really is such a thought, but surrounded by a body of ethereal +substance, charged with prana, and even carrying with it the vibration +of the life energy of its creator. It is a child of the mind of its +creator, and acquires a portion of his life-essence, so to speak, which +abides with it for a longer or shorter time after its birth. In extreme +instances it becomes practically a semi-living elemental force, of +necessarily comparatively short life. + +To those who find it difficult to understand how a thought-form can +persist after separation from the presence of the thinker, I would say +that the phenomena is similar to that of light traveling in space, long +after the star which originated it has been destroyed. Or, again, it is +like the vibrations of heat remaining in a room after the lamp or stove +causing it has been removed, or the fire in the grate having died out. +Or like the sound waves of the drum-beat persisting after the beat +itself has ceased. It is all a matter of the persistence of vibrations. + +Thought forms differ greatly one from the other in the matter of shape +and general appearance. The most common and simple form is that of an +undulating wave, or series of tiny waves, resembling the circles caused +by the dropping of a pebble into a still pond. Another form is that of a +tiny rotating bit of cloud-like substance, sometimes whirling towards a +central point, like a whirlpool; and sometimes swirling away from the +central point like the familiar "pin-wheel" fireworks toy. Another form +is akin the ring of smoke projected from the coughing locomotive, or +the rounded lips of the cigar smoker, the movement in this kind being a +form of spiral rotation. Other thought forms have the appearance of +swiftly rotating balls of cloudy substance, often glowing with a faint +phosphorescence. + +Sometimes the thought form will appear as a great slender jet, like +steam ejected from the spout of a tea-kettle, which is sometimes broken +up into a series of short, puffed-out jets, each following the jet +preceding it, and traveling in a straight line. Sometimes the thought +form shoots forth like a streak of dim light, almost resembling a beam +of light flashed from a mirror. Occasionally, it will twist its way +along like a long, slender corkscrew, or auger, boring into space. + +In cases of thought-forms sent forth by explosive emotion, the thought +form will actually take the form of a bomb, which literally explodes +when it reaches the presence of the person toward whom it is aimed. +Every person has experienced this feeling of a thought bomb having been +exploded in his near vicinity, having been directed by a vigorous +personality. This form is frequently found in the thought forms sent out +by a strong, earnest, vigorous orator. + +There are strong thought forms which seem to strive to push back the +other person, so correctly do they represent the idea and feeling back +of their manifestation. Others seem to strive to wind around the other +person, and to try to literally drag him toward the first person, this +form often accompanying strong appeal, persuasion, coaxing, etc., when +accompanied by strong desire. A particularly vigorous form of this kind +of thought form takes on the appearance of a nebulous octopus, with +long, winding, clinging tentacles, striving to wrap around the other +person, and to draw him toward the center. + +The force of the feeling behind the manifestation of the thought form +will often travel a long distance from the sender--in fact, in cases of +great power of concentration, space seems to be no barrier to its +passage. In striking instances of thought transference, etc., it will be +found that thought forms play an important part. + +The variety of shapes of thought forms is almost endless. Each +combination of thought and feeling creates its own form, and each +individual seems to have his own peculiarities in this respect. The +forms I have above described, however, will serve as typical cases to +illustrate the more common classes of appearances. The list, however, +might be indefinitely expanded from the experience of any experienced +occultist, and is not intended to be full by any means. All varieties of +geometrical forms are found among the thought forms, some of them being +of remarkable beauty. + +In considering the subject of projected thought forms, moreover, it must +be remembered that they partake of, and manifest, the same colors as +does the aura itself, for they are composed of the same material and are +charged with the same energy. But, note this difference, that whereas +the aura is energized from the constant battery of the organism of the +individual, the thought form, on the contrary, has at its service only +the energy with which it was charged when it was thrown off--being a +storage battery, as it were, which in time expends all of its power and +then is powerless. + +Every thought form bears the same color that it would possess if it had +been retained in the body of the aura itself. But, as a rule, the colors +are plainer, and less blended with others--this because each thought +form is the representation of a single definite feeling or thought, or +group of same, instead of being a body of widely differing mental +vibrations. Thus the thought form of anger will show its black and red, +with its characteristic flashes. The thought form of passion will show +forth its appropriate auric colors and general characteristics. The +thought form of high ideal love will show its beautiful form and +harmonious tinting, like a wonderful celestial flower from the garden of +some far off Paradise. + +Many thought forms never leave the outer limits of the aura, while +others are projected to great distances. Some sputter out as they +travel, and are disintegrated, while others continue to glow like a +piece of heated iron, for many hours. Others persist for a long time, +with a faint phosphorescent glow. A careful study of what has been said +regarding the characteristics of the various feelings and emotions, as +manifested in the auric body, will give the student a very fair general +idea of what may be the appearance of any particular variety of thought +form, for a general principle runs through the entire series of auric +phenomena. An understanding of the fundamental principles will lead to +an understanding of any of the particular varieties of the manifestation +thereof. + +Finally, remember this: A thought form is practically a bit of the +detached aura of a person, charged with a degree of his prana, and +energized with a degree of his life energy. So, in a limited sense, it +really is a projected portion of his personality. + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +PSYCHIC INFLUENCE OF COLORS. + + +In all of Nature's wonderful processes we find many evidences of that +great principle of Action and Reaction, which, like the forward and +backward swing of the pendulum, changes cause into effect, and effect +into cause, in a never ending series. We find this principle in effect +in the psychic relation of mental states and colors. That is to say, +that just as we find that certain mental and emotional states manifest +in vibrations causing particular auric astral colors, so do we find that +the presence of certain colors on the physical plane will have a decided +psychic effect upon the mental and emotional states of individuals +subject to their influence. And, as might be expected by the thoughtful +student, the particular astral colors manifested in the aura by the +presence of some particular mental or emotional state exactly correspond +with the particular physical colors which influence that particular +mental or emotional state. + +Illustrating the statements in the preceding paragraph, I would say that +the continued presence of red will be apt to set up emotional +vibrations of anger, passion, physical love, etc., or, in a different +tint, the higher physical emotions. Blue, of the right tint, will tend +to cause feelings of spirituality, religious emotion, etc. Green is +conducive to feelings of relaxation, repose, quiet, etc. Black produces +the feeling of gloom and grief. And so on, each color tends to produce +emotional vibrations similar to those which manifest that particular +color in the astral aura of the person. It is a case of "give and take" +along the entire scale of color and emotions, according to the great +natural laws. + +While the explanation of these facts is not known to the average person, +nevertheless nearly everyone recognizes the subtle effect of color and +avoids certain colors, while seeking certain others. There is not a +single living human being but who has experienced the sense of rest, +calm, repose, and calm inflow of strength, when in a room decorated in +quiet shades of green. Nature, herself, has given this particular shade +to the grass and leaves of trees and plants, so that the soothing effect +of the country scene is produced. The aura of a person experiencing +these feelings, and yielding to them, will manifest precisely the tint +or shade of green which is shown on the grass and leaves around him, so +true is this natural law of action and reaction. + +The effect of scarlet upon animals, the bull for instance, is well +known--to use the familiar term, it causes one to "see red." The sight +of the color of blood is apt to arouse feelings of rage, or disgust, by +reason of the same law. The sight of the beautiful clear blue sky tends +to arouse feelings of reverence, awe or spirituality. One can never +think of this shade of blue arousing rage; or red arouse feelings of +spirituality. + +It is a well known fact that in insane asylums, the use of red in +decorations must be avoided, while the proper shades of blue or green +are favored. On the other hand, the use of a proper red, in certain +cases, will tend to arouse vitality and physical strength in a patient. +It is not by mere chance that the life giving blood is a bright, rich +red color when it leaves the heart. + +When one "feels blue" he does not have the impression of a bright or +soft blue--but he really is almost conscious of the presence of a dull +bluish gray. And the presence of such a color in one's surroundings, +tends to cause a feeling of depression. Everyone knows the effect of a +"gray day" in the Fall or Spring. + +Again, who does not know the feeling of mental exaltation coming from +the sight of a day filled with golden sunshine, or from a golden sunset. +We find proofs of this law of Nature on all sides, every day of our +lives. It is an interesting subject, which will repay the student for +the expenditure of a little time and thought upon it. + +Speaking of the general class characteristics of the three primary +groups of colors, all occultists, as well as many physiologists and +psychologists, are agreed on the following fundamental propositions, +viz.: that (1) Red is exciting to the mind and emotions; (2) Yellow is +inspiring and elevating, and intellectually stimulating; and (3) Blue is +cool, soothing, and calming. It is also universally conceded that the +right shades of green (combining the qualities of blue and yellow in +appropriate proportions) is the ideal color of rest and recuperation, +followed by a stimulation and new ambition. The reason for this may be +seen, when you consider the respective qualities of blue and yellow +which compose this color. + +It is interesting to note that the science of medicine is now seriously +considering the use of colors in the treatment of disease, and the best +medical authorities investigating the subject are verifying the +teachings of the old occultists, regarding the influence of colors on +mental states and physical conditions. + +Dr. Edwin Babbitt, a pioneer in this line in the Western world, gave the +general principles in a nutshell, when he laid down the following rule: +"There is a trianal series of graduations in the peculiar potencies of +colors, the center and climax of electrical action, which cools the +nerves, being in violet; the climax of electrical action, which is +soothing to the vascular system, being in blue; the climax of luminosity +being in yellow; and the climax of thermism or heat being in red. This +is not an imaginary division of qualities, but a real one, the flamelike +red color having a principle of warmth in itself; the blue and violet, a +principle of cold and electricity. Thus we have many styles of chromatic +action, including progression of hues, of lights and shades, of fineness +and coarseness, of electrical power, luminous power, thermal power, +etc." + +Read the above statement of Dr. Babbitt, and then compare it with the +occult teaching regarding the astral colors, and you will perceive the +real basis of the science which the good doctor sought to establish, and +in which cause he did such excellent pioneer work. The result of his +work is now being elaborated by modern physicians in the great schools +of medicine, particularly on the Continent, in Europe--England and +America being somewhat behind the times in this work. + +The advanced occultist also finds much satisfaction in the interest, on +the part of physicians and jurists, in the matter of the influence of +color upon the mental, moral and physical welfare of the public. The +effect of color upon morality is being noticed by workers for human +welfare, occupying important offices. + +The American journals report the case of a judge in a large Western city +in that country, who insisted upon his courtroom being decorated in +light, cheerful tints, instead of in the old, gloomy, depressing shades +formerly employed. This judge wisely remarked that brightness led to +right thinking, and darkness to crooked thinking; also that his court, +being an uplift court, must have walls to correspond, and that it was +enough to turn any man into a criminal to be compelled to sit in a dark, +dismal courtroom, day after day. + +This good judge, who must have had some acquaintance with the occult +teachings, is quoted as concluding as follows: "White, cream, light +yellow, and orange are the colors which are the sanest. I might add +light green, for that is the predominant color in Nature; black, brown +and deep red are incentives to crime--a man in anger sees red." Surely a +remarkable utterance from the bench! + +The effect of color schemes upon the moral and mental welfare of persons +is being recognized in the direction of providing brighter color schemes +in schools, hospitals, reformatories, prisons, etc. The reports +naturally show the correctness of the underlying theory. The color of a +tiny flower has its effect upon even the most hardened prisoner; while +the minds of children in school are quickened by a touch of brightness +here and there in the room. It needs no argument to prove the beneficial +effect of the right kind of colors in the sickroom, or hospital ward. + +The prevailing theories, and practice, regarding the employment of color +in therapeutics and human welfare work, are in the main correct. But, I +urge the study of the occult significance of color, as mentioned in this +book in connection with the human aura and its astral colors, as a sound +basis for an intelligent, thorough understanding of the real psychic +principles underlying the physical application of the methods referred +to. Go to the center of the subject, and then work outward--that is the +true rule of the occultist, which might well be followed by the +non-occult general public. + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +AURIC MAGNETISM. + + +The phenomenon of human magnetism is too well recognized by the general +public, to require argument at this time. Let the scientists dispute +about it as much as they please, down in the heart of nearly all of the +plain people of the race is the conviction that there is such a thing. +The occultists, of course, are quite familiar with the wonderful +manifestations of this great natural force, and with its effect upon the +minds and bodies of members of the race, and can afford to smile at the +attempts of some of the narrow minds in the colleges to pooh-pooh the +matter. + +But the average person is not familiar with the relation of this human +magnetism to the human aura. I think that the student should familiarize +himself with this fundamental relation, in order to reason correctly on +the subject of human magnetism. Here is the fundamental fact in a +nutshell: The human aura is the great storehouse, or reservoir, of human +magnetism, and is the source of all human magnetism that is projected by +the individual toward other individuals. Just how human magnetism is +generated, is, of course, a far deeper matter, but it is enough for our +purpose at this time to explain the fact of its storage and +transmission. + +In cases of magnetic healing, etc., the matter is comparatively simple. +In such instances the healer by an effort of the will (sometimes +unconsciously applied) projects a supply of his pranic aura vibrations +into the body of his patient, by way of the nervous system of the +patient, and also by means of what may be called the induction of the +aura itself. + +The mere presence of a person strongly charged with prana, is often +enough to cause an overflow into the aura of other persons, with a +resulting feeling of new strength and energy. By the use of the hands of +the healer, a heightened effect is produced, by reason of certain +properties inherent in the nervous system of both healer and patient. + +There is even a flow of etheric substance from the aura of the healer to +that of the patient, in cases where the vitality of the latter is very +low. Many a healer has actually, and literally, pumped his life force +and etheric substance into the body of his patient, when the latter was +sinking into the weakness which precedes death, and has by so doing been +able to bring him back to life and strength. This is practically akin +to the transfusion of blood--except that it is on the psychic plane +instead of the physical. + +But the work of the magnetic healer does not stop here, if he be well +informed regarding his science. The educated healer realizing the potent +effect of mental states upon physical conditions--of mental vibrations +upon the physical nerve centers and organs of the body--endeavors to +arouse the proper mental vibrations in the mind of his patient. +Ordinarily, he does this merely by holding in his mind the corresponding +desired mental state, and thus arousing similar vibrations in the mind +of the patient. This of itself is a powerful weapon of healing, and +constitutes the essence of mental healing as usually practiced. But +there is a possible improvement even upon this, as we shall see in a +moment. + +The advanced occultist, realizing the law of action and reaction in the +matter of the auric colors, turns the same to account in healing work, +as follows: He not only holds in his mind the strong feeling and thought +which he wishes to transmit to the patient, but (fix this in your mind) +he also pictures in his imagination the particular kind of color which +corresponds with the feeling or thought in question. + +A moment's thought will show you that by this course he practically +multiplies the effect. Not only do his own thought vibrations (1) set up +corresponding vibrations in the mind of the patient, by the laws of +thought transference, but (2) his thought of the certain colors will set +up corresponding vibrations not only (a) in his own aura, and thence (b) +to that of the patient, but will also (3) act directly upon the aura of +the patient and reproduce the colors there, which (4) in turn will +arouse corresponding vibrations in the mind of the patient, by the law +of reaction. + +The above may sound a little complicated at first reading, but a little +analysis will show you that it is really quite a simple process, acting +strictly along the lines of Action and Reaction, which law has been +explained to you in preceding chapters of this book. The vibrations +rebound from mind to aura, and from aura to mind, in the patient, +something like a billiard ball flying from one side of the table to +another, or a tennis ball flying between the two racquets over the net. + +The principle herein mentioned may be employed as well in what is called +"absent treatment" as in treatments where the patient is present. By +the laws of thought transference, not only the thought but also the +mental image of the appropriate astral color, is transmitted over space, +and then, impinging on the mind of the patient, is transmitted into +helpful and health-giving vibrations in his mind. The healer of any +school of mental or spiritual healing will find this plan very helpful +to him in giving absent as well as present treatments. I recommend it +from years of personal experience, as well as that of other advanced +occultists. + +Of course the fact that the ordinary healer is not able to distinguish +the finer shades of astral color, by reason of his not having actually +perceived them manifested in the aura, renders his employment of this +method less efficacious than that of the developed and trained +occultist. But, nevertheless, he will find that, from the knowledge of +the auric or astral colors given in this little book, he will be able to +obtain quite satisfactory and marked results in his practice. The +following table, committed to memory, will be of help to him in the +matter of employing the mental image of the auric colors in his healing +work. + + +TABLE OF HEALING COLORS. + +Nervous System-- + Cooling and soothing: Shades of violet, lavender, etc. + Resting and invigorating effect: Grass greens. + Inspiring and illuminating: Medium yellows, and orange. + Stimulating and exciting: Reds (bright). + +Blood and Organs-- + Cooling and soothing: Clear dark blues. + Resting and invigorating: Grass greens. + Inspiring and illuminating: Orange yellows. + Stimulating and exciting: Bright reds. + +The following additional suggestions will be found helpful to the +healer: In cases of impaired physical vitality; also chilliness, lack of +bodily warmth, etc., bright, warm reds are indicated. In cases of +feverishness, overheated blood, excessive blood pressure, inflammation, +etc., blue is indicated. Red has a tendency to produce renewed and more +active heart action; while violets and lavenders tend to slow down the +too rapid beating of the heart. A nervous, unstrung patient, may be +treated by bathing her, mentally, in a flood of violet or lavender +auric color; while a tired, used up, fatigued person may be invigorated +by flooding him with bright reds, followed by bright, rich yellows, +finishing the treatment with a steady flow of warm orange color. + +To those who are sufficiently advanced in occult philosophy, I would say +that they should remember the significance of the Great White Light, and +accordingly conclude their treatment by an effort to indicate an +approach to that clear, pure white color in the aura--mentally, of +course. This will leave the patient in an inspired, exalted, illuminated +state of mind and soul, which will be of great benefit to him, and will +also have the effect of reinvigorating the healer by cosmic energy or +para-prana. + +Everything that has been said in this chapter regarding the use of color +in magnetic treatments, is equally applicable to cases of self-healing, +or self-treatment. Let the patient follow the directions above given for +the healer, and then turn the healing current, or thought, inward--and +the result will be the same as if he were treating another. The +individual will soon find that certain colors fit his requirements +better than others, in which case let him follow such experience in +preference to general rules, for the intuition generally is the safest +guide in such cases. However, it will be found that the individual +experience will usually agree with the tables given above, with slight +personal variations. + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +DEVELOPING THE AURA. + + +When it is remembered that the aura of the individual affects and +influences other persons with whom he comes in contact--and is, in fact, +an important part of his personality--it will be seen that it is +important that the individual take pains to develop his aura in the +direction of desirable qualities, and to neutralize and weed out +undesirable ones. This becomes doubly true, when it is also remembered +that, according to the law of action and reaction, the auric vibrations +react upon the mind of the individual, thus intensifying and adding fuel +to the original mental states which called them forth. From any point of +view, it is seen to be an important part of self development and +character building, to develop the aura according to scientific occult +principles. + +In this work of aura development, there is found to be two correlated +phases, namely: (1) the direct work of flooding the aura with the best +vibrations, by means of holding in the mind clear, distinct and repeated +mental pictures of desirable ideas and feelings; and (2) the added +effect of mental images of the colors corresponding to the ideas and +feelings which are deemed desirable and worthy of development. + +The first of the above mentioned phases is probably far more familiar to +the average student, than is the second. This from the fact that the +average student is apt to be more or less familiar with the teachings of +the numerous schools or cults which agree in the axiom that "holding the +thought" tends to develop the mind of the individual along the +particular lines of such thought. + +This is a correct psychological principle, for that matter, even when +those practicing it do not fully understand the underlying facts. Mental +faculties, like physical muscles, tend to develop by exercise and use, +and any faculty may be developed and cultivated in this way. + +Another teaching of these same schools is that the character of the +thoughts so "held" by the individual, effects other persons with whom he +comes in contact, and, in a way attracts to him objective things, +persons, and circumstances in harmony with such thoughts. This also is +in accordance with the best occult teaching--from which, of course, it +was originally derived. + +I heartily endorse the facts of these teachings, and pronounce them +fundamentally correct. And, in this connection, I may say that every +healer may apply his own methods PLUS this teaching regarding the aura, +and thus obtain greatly increased results. + +By the faithful, persevering, holding in mind of certain ideas and +feelings, the individual may flood his aura with the vibrations and +colors of such ideas and feelings, and thus charge it with auric energy +and power. By so doing, he gains the benefit of the reaction upon his +own mind, and also secures the advantage of the effect thereof upon +other persons with whom he comes in contact. In this way he not only +builds up his individual character along desirable lines, but at the +same time develops a strong, positive, attractive "personality" which +affects others with whom he comes in contact. + +I do not consider it necessary to go into details here regarding this +phase of "holding the thought," for, as I have said, the average student +is already familiar with the rules regarding the same. In a nutshell, +however, I will say that each individual is largely the result of the +thoughts he has manifested, and the feelings which he has harbored. +Therefore, the rule is to manifest and exercise the faculties you would +develop, and inhibit or refrain from manifesting the ones you would +restrain or control. Again, to restrain an undesirable faculty, develop +and exercise its opposite--kill out the negatives by developing the +positives. The mind produces thought; and yet, it tends to grow from the +particular portion of its own product which you may choose to feed to +it--for it not only creates thought, but also feeds upon it. So, +finally, let it produce the best kind of thought for you, and then throw +that back into the hopper, for it will use it to grind out more of the +same kind and grow strong in so doing. That is the whole thing in a +nutshell. + +The second phase of aura development (as above classified), however, is +not likely to be familiar to the average student, for the reason that it +is not known outside of advanced occult circles, and very little has +been allowed to be taught regarding it. But, the very reticence +regarding it is a proof of its importance, and I strongly advise my +students to give to it the attention and practice that its importance +merits. The practice, thereof, however, is extremely simple, and the +principle of the practice, moreover, is based solely upon the facts of +the relation of color and mental states, as shown in the astral auric +colors, as fully explained in the preceding chapters of this book. + +In order to intelligently practice the development of the aura by means +of flooding or charging it with the vibrations of psychic colors, it is +first necessary that the student be thoroughly familiar with the scale +of colors related to each set of mental states or emotional feelings. +This scale and its key is found in a number of places in the preceding +chapters. + +The student should turn back the pages of this book, and then carefully +re-read and re-study every word which has been said about the relation +of mental states and auric colors. He should know the mental +correspondence of the shades of red, yellow, and blue, so thoroughly +that the thought of one will bring the idea of the other. He should be +able to think of the corresponding group of colors, the moment he thinks +of any particular mental state. He should be thoroughly familiar with +the physical, mental, and spiritual effect of any of the colors, and +should moreover, test himself, psychically, for the individual effects +of certain colors upon himself. + +He should enter into this study with interest and earnestness, and then +by keeping his eyes and ears open, he will perceive interesting facts +concerning the subject on every side in his daily work and life. He will +perceive many proofs of the principle, and will soon amass a stock of +experiences illustrating each color and its corresponding mental state. +He will be richly repaid for the work of such study, which, in fact, +will soon grow to be more like pleasure than like work. + +Having mastered this phase of the subject, the student should give +himself a thorough, honest, self-examination and mental analysis. He +should write down a chart of his strong points and his weak ones. He +should check off the traits which should be developed, and those which +should be restrained. He should determine whether he needs development +along physical, mental, and spiritual lines, and in what degree. Having +made this chart of himself, he should then apply the principles of +charging the aura with the color vibrations indicated by his self +diagnosis and prescription. + +The last stage is quite simple, once one has acquired the general idea +back of it. It consists simply in forming as clear a mental image as +possible of the color or colors desired, and then projecting the +vibrations into the aura by the simple effort of the will. This does +not mean that one needs to clinch the fist or frown the brow, in +willing. Willing, in the occult sense, may be said to consist of a +COMMAND, leaving the rest to the mechanism of the will and mind. Take +away the obstacle of Doubt and Fear--then the Royal Command performs the +work of setting the will into operation. This, by the way, is an +important occult secret, of wide application--try to master its all +important significance. + +The mental imaging of colors may be materially aided by concentration +upon physical material of the right color. By concentrating the +attention and vision upon a red flower, for instance; or upon a bit of +green leaf, in another instance; one may be able to form a clear, +positive mental image of that particular color. This accompanied by the +willing, and demand, that the vibrations of this color shall charge the +aura, will be found to accomplish the result. Have something around you +showing the desirable colors, and your attention will almost +instinctively take up the impression thereof, even though you may be +thinking of, or doing something else. Live as much as possible in the +idea and presence of the desirable color, and you will get the habit of +setting up the mental image and vibration thereof. A little practice +and experience will soon give you the idea, and enable you to get the +best results. Patience, perseverance, and sustained earnest +interest--that is the key of success. + + + + +CHAPTER X. + +THE PROTECTIVE AURA. + + +Among the very oldest of the teachings of occultism, we find +instructions regarding the building up and maintenance of the protective +aura of the individual, whereby he renders himself immune to undesirable +physical, mental, psychic or spiritual influences. So important is this +teaching, that it is to be regretted that there has not been more said +on the subject by some of the writers of recent years. The trouble with +many of these recent writers is that they seem to wish to close their +eyes to the unpleasant facts of life, and to gaze only upon the pleasant +ones. But this is a mistake, for ignorance has never been a virtue, and +to shut one's eyes to unpleasant facts does not always result in +destroying them. I consider any teaching unfinished and inadequate which +does not include instruction along protective lines. + +Physical auric protection consists in charging the aura with vital +magnetism and color, which will tend to ward off not only the physical +contagion of ill persons, but, what is often still more important, the +contagion of their mind and feelings. + +The student who has really studied the preceding chapters will at once +realize that this protection is afforded by filling the aura with the +vibrations of health and physical strength, by means of the mental +imaging of the life-preserving reds, and the exercise of the mind in the +direction of thought of strength and power. These two things will tend +to greatly increase the resistive aura of anyone, and enable him to +throw off disease influences which affect others. + +The aura of the successful physician and healer, in the presence of +disease, will invariably show the presence of the bright, positive red +in the aura, accompanied by the mental vibrations of strength, power and +confidence, and the absence of fear. This in connection with the Auric +Circle, which shall be described presently, will be of great value to +healers, physicians, nurses, etc., as well as to those who are brought +into intimate contact with sick persons. + +Of practically the same degree of importance, is the charging of the +aura with the vibrations of mental protection, viz, the vibrations of +orange, yellow and similar colors. These are the colors of intellect, +you will remember, and when the aura is charged and flooded with them it +acts as a protection against the efforts of others to convince one +against his will, by sophistical arguments, plausible reasoning, +fallacious illustrations, etc. It gives to one a sort of mental +illumination, quickening the perceptive faculties, and brightening up +the reasoning and judging powers, and finally, giving a sharp edge to +the powers of repartee and answer. + +If you will assume the right positive mental attitude, and will flood +your aura with the vibrations of the mental orange-yellow, the mental +efforts of other persons will rebound from your aura, or, to use another +figure of speech, will slip from it like water from the back of the +proverbial duck. It is well to carry the mental image of your head being +surrounded by a golden aura or halo, at such times--this will be found +especially efficacious as a protective helmet when you are assaulted by +the intellect or arguments of others. + +And, again, there is a third form of protective aura, namely protection +of one's emotional nature--and this is highly important, when one +remembers how frequently we are moved to action by our emotions, rather +than by our intellect or reason. To guard one's emotions, is to guard +one's very inmost soul, so to speak. If we can protect our feeling and +emotional side, we will be able to use our reasoning powers and +intellect far more effectively, as all know by experience. + +What color should we use in this form of auric protection? Can anyone be +in doubt here, if he has read the preceding chapters? What is the +emotional protective color?--why, blue, of course. Blue controls this +part of the mind or soul, and by raising ourselves into the vibrations +of positive blue, we leave behind us the lower emotions and feelings, +and are transported into the higher realms of the soul where these low +vibrations and influences cannot follow us. In the same way, the blue +colored aura will act as an armor to protect us from the contagion of +the low passions and feelings of others. + +If you are subjected to evil influences, or contagion of those harboring +low emotions and desires, you will do well to acquire the art of +flooding your aura with the positive blue tints. Make a study of bright, +clear blues, and you will instinctively select the one best suited for +your needs. Nature gives us this instinctive knowledge, if we will but +seek for it, and then apply it when found. The aura of great moral +teachers, great priests and preachers, advanced occultists, in fact all +men of lofty ideals working among those lower on the moral scale, are +always found to be charged with a beautiful, clear blue, which acts as a +protection to them when they are unduly exposed to moral or emotional +contagion. Ignorance of the occult laws have caused the downfall of many +a great moral teacher, who could have protected himself in this way, in +times of strong attack of low vibrations, had he but known the truth. +The individual who knows this law, and who applies it, is rendered +absolutely immune from evil contagion on the emotional plane of being. + + +THE GREAT AURIC CIRCLE. + +But no occult instruction on this subject would be complete without a +reference to the Great Auric Circle of Protection, which is a shelter to +the soul, mind, and body, against outside psychic influences, directed, +consciously or unconsciously against the individual. In these days of +wide spread though imperfect, knowledge of psychic phenomena, it is +especially important that one should be informed as to this great shield +of protection. Omitting all reference to the philosophy underlying it, +it may be said that this Auric Circle is formed by making the mental +image, accompanied by the demand of will, of the aura being surrounded +by a great band of PURE CLEAR WHITE LIGHT. A little perseverance will +enable you to create this on the astral plane, and, though (unless you +have the astral vision) you cannot see it actually, yet you will +actually FEEL its protective presence, so that you will know that it is +there guarding you. + +This White Auric Circle will be an effective and infallible armor +against all forms of psychic attack or influence, no matter from whom it +may emanate, or whether directed consciously or unconsciously. It is a +perfect and absolute protection, and the knowledge of its protective +power should be sufficient to drive fear from the heart of all who have +dreaded psychic influence, "malicious animal magnetism" (so-called), or +anything else of the kind, by whatever name known. It is also a +protection against psychic vampirism, or draining of magnetic strength. + +The Auric Circle is, of course, really egg-shaped, or oval, for it +fringes the aura as the shell cases the egg. See yourself, mentally, as +surrounded by this Great White Auric Circle of Protection, and let the +idea sink into your consciousness. Realize its power over the influences +from outside, and rejoice in the immunity it gives you. + +The Auric Circle, however, will admit any outside impressions that you +really desire to come to you, while shutting out the others. That is, +with this exception, that if your inner soul recognizes that some of +these desired influences and impressions are apt to harm you (though +your reason and feeling know it not) then will such impressions be +denied admittance. For the White Light is the radiation of Spirit, which +is higher than ordinary mind, emotion, or body and is Master of All. And +its power, even though we can but imperfectly represent it even +mentally, is such that before its energy, and in its presence, in the +aura, all lower vibrations are neutralized and disintegrated. + +The highest and deepest occult teaching is that the White Light must +never be used for purpose of attack or personal gain, but that it may +properly be used by anyone, at any time, to protect against outside +psychic influences against which the soul protests. It is the armor of +the soul, and may well be employed whenever or wherever the need +arises. + +Throughout the pages of this little book have been scattered crumbs of +teaching other than those concerning the aura alone. Those for whom +these are intended will recognize and appropriate them--the others will +not see them, and will pass them by. One attracts his own to him. Much +seed must fall on waste places, in order that here and there a grain +will find lodgment in rich soil awaiting its coming. True occult +knowledge is practical power and strength. Beware of prostituting the +higher teachings for selfish ends and ignoble purposes. To guard and +preserve your own will is right; to seek to impose your will upon that +of another is wrong. 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