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Blavatsky used the term "astral" to refer to the double (linga sharira) which was the lowest but one of the seven principles (immediately above the physical). Later however, C.W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant (Adyar School of Theosophy), and following them, Alice Bailey, equated the astral with Blavatsky's Kama (desire) principle (the fourth of the seven principles of man, and called it the Emotional body (a concept not found in earlier Theosophy). In this way, astral body, desire body, and emotional body became synonmous, and this identification is found i ...

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Astral body, Astral body - The astral body in Neoplatonism, Astral body - The astral body in Theosophy, Astral body - The desire body in Rosicrucianism, Astral body - Later interpretations, Astral body - The astral body in generic New Age thought, Astral body - Artistic depictions

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New Age thought incorporates many theosophical ideas, including the concept of subtle bodies and planes of existence. While there is no consensus position, the general idea is that the Astral body corresponds to the astral plane which is sometimes also (ref?) called the 5th dimension. The astral body is also widely understood here as the subtle body in which astral projection occurs (see Astral projection). This is one of several types of out of body expe ...

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Astral body, Astral body - The astral body in Neoplatonism, Astral body - The astral body in Theosophy, Astral body - The desire body in Rosicrucianism, Astral body - Later interpretations, Astral body - The astral body in generic New Age thought, Astral body - Artistic depictions

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Rudolph Steiner at first followed Theosophical jargon like astral and Devachan, but after he broke away from the Theosophical society to form his own movement, Anthroposophy, he also adopted a distinct terminology, replacing astral plane with "soul" and devachen with "spirit", and substituting the seven-fold model of man with a fourfold one (physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego). However his description of the "soul world" remained very similar to Leadbeater's description of the astral plane, and his definition of ...

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Astral body, Astral body - The astral body in Neoplatonism, Astral body - The astral body in Theosophy, Astral body - The desire body in Rosicrucianism, Astral body - Later interpretations, Astral body - The astral body in generic New Age thought, Astral body - Artistic depictions

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