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Out of the temporary subtle bodies that we have recently been given for our current incarnation, the astral body is perhaps the one who has caused the most controversy current incarnation, the astral body. It is a body that really needs our daily care as well as attention, as it is forever changing and unfortunately for most people, not for the far better.

It is the body through which we will spend a considerable part of our post- mortem life, yet not many folks are particularly interested in taking good care of it properly, mainly because they don't know its presence but also because they cannot know how interpret this signs that this wonderful body gives us on a daily basis.

Astral body is the seat of our emotional life and desire impulses, and for this explanation is also called "emotional body". We have developed this particular body during our evolution in the animal kingdom, as part of the evolutionary goal individuals animal brothers is to help strive towards individualization from their Group Soul, through the awareness in their individual needs and thoughts.

In humans, where this individualization has already been achieved and is prominently notable, the evolutionary goal should be to refine these primal needs and impulses to unselfishness as well as ultimately to nonexistence. This takes several lifetimes of spiritual work upon the Path of Initiation to achieve, but we only need to find out a few key points to be able to perfect our astral body and make an impact to the quality of our lives. In truth, the astral plane because it is now (that's where the astral body operates) is man's own creation.

As Alice Bailey wrote in her book "Esoteric Healing ": The astral plane doesn't have factual existence, but is an illusory creation with the human family. From now on, however (through the defeat with the forces of evil as well as the disastrous setback suffered through the Black Lodge), the astral plane will slowly become a dying creation, and in the final amount of human history (inside the seventh root-race), it will become non-existent".

This is good media, for we can mould and shape our astral body in any way we tend to; the bad news is that the complete disappearance of this plane is far off.

So what is it that is stopping us from moving forward in our Evolution as Beings of Light and what can we all do to refine each of our astral body?

Wouldn't it be a lot better to spend time directly in your mental body upon death and interact with Causal Plane entities rather then slowly shedding our astral counterpart through the illusion and coarseness that any of us have accumulated during our earthly lives?

There are a few things to make note of that will greatly speed up our evolution and choose this transition process so much simpler.

The quality and intensity of our emotions colour the nature of our astral body and determine its rate of vibration. Most people in actuality, by letting their emotions run riot within their lives, do great damage towards the astral body they have been given upon start, and since it is the vehicle that they will find themselves in after physical death, they will end up inhabiting a weak and crippled Astral Body. Consequently, their transition from the Astral to the Causal Plane will be long in addition to toilsome.

This matter is more severe than most people imagine. Emotions of a low vibratory rate like anger, envy, fear, guilt and greed one example is, coarsen our astral body for the extent that, if we do not find it difficult to overcome these tendencies although in incarnation, we will end up inhabiting the cheapest regions of the astral plane because we are not able to sustain the high vibratory rates associated with light of the Higher Astral, or otherwise called "The Summerland". (for more info on the astral body see The Master Plan by MB Cooke)

The emotional body of most people is usually with dire need of recovery, whether we are happy to admit it or not necessarily. There are certain afflictions which might be directly connected with a imbalance in the Astral Body and that are directed at us as daily simple guidelines or signs that our Astral Body is weak and that it takes more care and consideration from us.

These common complaints are types of indigestion, nervousness, liver and stomach claims, frequent nightmares (which tell us quite a lot about the lower parts of the astral plane we visit during our sleep and thus about the vibratory price and attractor fields in our own astral vehicle). In short, anything related to this solar plexus chakra, the chakra of sensations, as it is the idea of connection of the emotional body towards physical and it serves as a transmitter of its energies. The healing path to the Astral Body is through the 3rd chakra (the Solar Plexus), and an emphasis need to be placed in governing as well as healing this chakra during our lives.

The other main factor that contributes to the deterioration of the astral body whilst in incarnation will be the barbaric practice of the consumption of dead flesh. This was thoroughly explained by Hilarion through Maurice B. Cooke (Threshold: a letter for Michelle, Hilarion, M.B.Cooke):

"The body of this slaughtered animal is fraught with a substantial amount fear and desperation, which results in the particular contamination of its astral comparable version, both of the animal and of the one who ingests its flesh. After years of having this astral poison, the astral body in the person starts to degrade, due to the toxins ingested from the consumption of astral corpses. Soon the physical body will start to

mirror its astral vehicle as well as the person becomes unwell, as the astral infirmities are filtered right down to the physical.

This causes death at an early on age than was foreseen to the soul. The rampant rise connected with colon cancer is directly proportional towards fouling of the colorectal by eating decayed flesh; the stomach, as said earlier, being the first portal towards Astral Body. If man is exactly what he eats, then eating death such as meat brings death per se closer.

The Karma that is usually generated from slaughtering and also inflicting pain upon the helpless Animal Kingdom (which was entrusted to your care to further it's evolution through love) is additionally considerable and shouldn't be disregarded. The day that animals won't find a grave inside a human stomach might be a day of great enlightenment and evolution for mankind".

The consumption of alcoholic beverages and nicotine is also detrimental for the sake of the astral body. As Theosophical literature states, if a man was huge smoker, at death he will quickly realize himself literally paralysed as a result of toxic accumulation of the actual nicotine in his astral body and it will take some time before the guy can move his astral braches.

Needless to say, the dangers derived through the ingestion of alcohol are actually amply enumerated by Annie Besant in her pamphlet "The Influence of Alcohol".

Hilarion has added that this substance can lodge its toxins within the etheric and astral body, causing them to come to be frayed and weakened over the years. The over indulgence associated with alcohol causes a tear in the rear of the Anja or finally eye chakra, which can induce the inhabitants with the lower astral planes to prey upon the energy centers of the one who has thus abused it.

The astral body nonetheless, has great regenerative powers provided it is not constantly weakened from the ingestion of astral poison caused by the intake of fear generated by youngster before it is slain, or by the harmful toxins of nicotine and alcohol consumption. If the person abstains from the ingestion of these substances for a period of nine a few months, Hilarion says that the astral body is able to restore itself to a new near perfect state. These changes gradually will filter right down to the physical and grow to be manifest and visible with our third dimensional degree.

One can clearly observe that the degree of health of our own astral (and ultimately physical) is given by the products our thoughts and emotions and by what we ingest. Just by paying attention to the products our life we can experience a great improvement next.