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Characteristic properties of the astral world

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	== Characteristic properties of the astral world ==		== Characteristic properties of the astral world ==

	On the astral ~~plan~~ the [[chemical ether]] ([[sound ether]]) has its true life:		On the astral plane the [[chemical ether]] ([[sound ether]]) has its true life:

	{{GZ\|The sixth is the astral ~~plan~~. The chemical ether lives on it. When one is somnambulic, one perceives on the astral ~~plan~~ the properties of the chemicals, the chemical properties, because on the astral ~~plan~~ the chemical ether really has its life.\|93a\|46}}		{{GZ\|The sixth is the astral plane. The chemical ether lives on it. When one is somnambulic, one perceives on the astral plane the properties of the chemicals, the chemical properties, because on the astral plane the chemical ether really has its life.\|93a\|46}}

	Substantially, the astral world is woven from the same [[soul forces]] that are at work in our feelings, emotions and sensations and especially in the sensory qualities we experience. But during our life on earth we do not experience these astral forces directly as they are, but only as a dimmed reflection. To the imaginative vision, the astral world therefore often appears like a mirror image of the experiences in the physical world. The number 563, for example, would have to be read as 365 in the astral world. A feeling of hatred that we emit appears to us there as if it came to us from the person to whom we sent it. Our own unrestrained animal instincts show themselves in the imagination as wild animals rushing at us. All colours appear in the astral world as complementary colours; the calm green of the plant world corresponds, for example, on the astral ~~plan~~ to the energetic purple colour (also called peach blossom by Goethe). What in the soul world lives out as glowing soul warmth appears to us here as a peculiar feeling of coldness, and so on.		Substantially, the astral world is woven from the same [[soul forces]] that are at work in our feelings, emotions and sensations and especially in the sensory qualities we experience. But during our life on earth we do not experience these astral forces directly as they are, but only as a dimmed reflection. To the imaginative vision, the astral world therefore often appears like a mirror image of the experiences in the physical world. The number 563, for example, would have to be read as 365 in the astral world. A feeling of hatred that we emit appears to us there as if it came to us from the person to whom we sent it. Our own unrestrained animal instincts show themselves in the imagination as wild animals rushing at us. All colours appear in the astral world as complementary colours; the calm green of the plant world corresponds, for example, on the astral plane to the energetic purple colour (also called peach blossom by Goethe). What in the soul world lives out as glowing soul warmth appears to us here as a peculiar feeling of coldness, and so on.

	{{GZ\|What appears on the astral ~~plan~~ is as a rule present there like a mirror image in comparison with the physical plan; for example, the number 563 is 365 there. A feeling of hatred also appears there as if it came from the person to whom it was sent. This fact is valid for all things on the astral plane. The soul, which shines from the astral ~~plan~~ onto the physical plan, can be perceived here with the opposite qualities. When psychic sensations penetrate from the astral plan, they penetrate here, for example, as a reflection of the astral plan, with a peculiar feeling of coldness, while they are warmth there. These are things that must be made quite clear. On the other hand, we must bear in mind that the beings of the astral ~~plan~~ have to matter what we call feeling. They express themselves in this feeling. If these entities are not yet very strongly present, we can only perceive them in this way, namely through a cold sensation. But if they become stronger, if their matter increases, they become visible as luminous beings. This explains that when materialisations become sufficiently dense during spiritualistic sessions, a luminous appearance occurs (mollusc cancer as an example). This is a natural process in such a thing. Anyone who looks at something like this without this knowledge is talking about miracles. A miracle is nothing other than the intervention of a higher world in ours. It is simply a natural process. It is like that when other entities of higher plan intervene in human life.\|93a\|145}}		{{GZ\|What appears on the astral plane is as a rule present there like a mirror image in comparison with the physical plan; for example, the number 563 is 365 there. A feeling of hatred also appears there as if it came from the person to whom it was sent. This fact is valid for all things on the astral plane. The soul, which shines from the astral plane onto the physical plan, can be perceived here with the opposite qualities. When psychic sensations penetrate from the astral plan, they penetrate here, for example, as a reflection of the astral plan, with a peculiar feeling of coldness, while they are warmth there. These are things that must be made quite clear. On the other hand, we must bear in mind that the beings of the astral plane have to matter what we call feeling. They express themselves in this feeling. If these entities are not yet very strongly present, we can only perceive them in this way, namely through a cold sensation. But if they become stronger, if their matter increases, they become visible as luminous beings. This explains that when materialisations become sufficiently dense during spiritualistic sessions, a luminous appearance occurs (mollusc cancer as an example). This is a natural process in such a thing. Anyone who looks at something like this without this knowledge is talking about miracles. A miracle is nothing other than the intervention of a higher world in ours. It is simply a natural process. It is like that when other entities of higher plan intervene in human life.\|93a\|145}}

	Just as everything in the astral world reverses itself into its mirror image, so here also [[time]] runs backwards:		Just as everything in the astral world reverses itself into its mirror image, so here also [[time]] runs backwards:

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	In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.		In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.

	Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. Clear spiritual knowledge can only be gained if one is able to completely calm the waving [[feeling]]s in one's soul. Only if one can establish this '''~~stillmness~~ of the sea''' in one's soul, will heaven, i.e. the [[spiritual world]], be reflected in one's soul unclouded.		Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. Clear spiritual knowledge can only be gained if one is able to completely calm the waving [[feeling]]s in one's soul. Only if one can establish this '''stillness of the sea''' in one's soul, will heaven, i.e. the [[spiritual world]], be reflected in one's soul unclouded.

	== What is the astral world? ==		== What is the astral world? ==

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	In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.		In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.

	Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. Clear spiritual knowledge can only be gained if one is able to completely calm the waving [[~~feelings~~]]s in one's soul. Only if one can establish this '''stillmness of the sea''' in one's soul, will heaven, i.e. the [[spiritual world]], be reflected in one's soul unclouded.		Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. Clear spiritual knowledge can only be gained if one is able to completely calm the waving [[feeling]]s in one's soul. Only if one can establish this '''stillmness of the sea''' in one's soul, will heaven, i.e. the [[spiritual world]], be reflected in one's soul unclouded.

	== What is the astral world? ==		== What is the astral world? ==

Odyssee: /* The 7 Regions of the Astral World */

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The 7 Regions of the Astral World

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	\| valign="bottom" \| [[Life ether]]<br>[[Sound ether]]<br>[[Light ether]]<br>[[Warmth ether]] / [[Fire]]<br>[[Air]]<br>[[Water]]<br>[[Earth (element)\|Earth]]<br><br><br>		\| valign="bottom" \| [[Life ether]]<br>[[Sound ether]]<br>[[Light ether]]<br>[[Warmth ether]] / [[Fire]]<br>[[Air]]<br>[[Water]]<br>[[Earth (element)\|Earth]]<br><br><br>
	\| [[File:~~GA_101_223~~.gif\|center\|400px]]		\| [[File:GA101 223 en.gif\|center\|400px]]
	\| valign="top" \| [[Region of soul life]]<br>[[Region of active soul force]]<br>[[Region of soul light]]<br>[[Region of liking and disliking]]<br>[[Region of wishes]]<br>[[Region of mobile sensitivity]]<br>[[Region of burning desire]]		\| valign="top" \| [[Region of soul life]]<br>[[Region of active soul force]]<br>[[Region of soul light]]<br>[[Region of liking and disliking]]<br>[[Region of wishes]]<br>[[Region of mobile sensitivity]]<br>[[Region of burning desire]]
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The 7 Regions of the Astral World

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	{{GZ\|If we start from the physical plan, we have here (it is drawn) seven sub-divisions of the physical plan; then would come seven sub-divisions of the astral plan. Of these, the three lowest coincide with the three highest of the physical plan. We must regard the astral plan as being pushed together with the physical plan in such a way that the three uppermost sections of the physical plan are at the same time the three lowermost sections of the astral plan. We can speak of a marginal zone, that is, the one which our souls cannot leave after death, when they are still bound to the earth by desires. It is called kamaloka.\|101\|223}}		{{GZ\|If we start from the physical plan, we have here (it is drawn) seven sub-divisions of the physical plan; then would come seven sub-divisions of the astral plan. Of these, the three lowest coincide with the three highest of the physical plan. We must regard the astral plan as being pushed together with the physical plan in such a way that the three uppermost sections of the physical plan are at the same time the three lowermost sections of the astral plan. We can speak of a marginal zone, that is, the one which our souls cannot leave after death, when they are still bound to the earth by desires. It is called kamaloka.\|101\|223}}

	[[File:GA_101_223.gif\|center\|400px]]		{\| class="centered" style="line-height: 170%;"
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			\| valign="bottom" \| [[Life ether]]<br>[[Sound ether]]<br>[[Light ether]]<br>[[Warmth ether]] / [[Fire]]<br>[[Air]]<br>[[Water]]<br>[[Earth (element)\|Earth]]<br><br><br>
			\| [[File:GA_101_223.gif\|center\|400px]]
			\| valign="top" \| [[Region of soul life]]<br>[[Region of active soul force]]<br>[[Region of soul light]]<br>[[Region of liking and disliking]]<br>[[Region of wishes]]<br>[[Region of mobile sensitivity]]<br>[[Region of burning desire]]
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	== The perception of the astral world ==		== The perception of the astral world ==

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	In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.		In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.

	Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. Clear spiritual knowledge can only be gained if one is able to completely calm the waving [[feelings]]s in one's soul. Only if one can establish this '''~~calmness~~ of the sea''' in one's soul, will heaven, i.e. the [[spiritual world]], be reflected in one's soul unclouded.		Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. Clear spiritual knowledge can only be gained if one is able to completely calm the waving [[feelings]]s in one's soul. Only if one can establish this '''stillmness of the sea''' in one's soul, will heaven, i.e. the [[spiritual world]], be reflected in one's soul unclouded.

	== What is the astral world? ==		== What is the astral world? ==

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	[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]		[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]

	In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world~~. Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions~~. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.		In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.

			Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. Clear spiritual knowledge can only be gained if one is able to completely calm the waving [[feelings]]s in one's soul. Only if one can establish this '''calmness of the sea''' in one's soul, will heaven, i.e. the [[spiritual world]], be reflected in one's soul unclouded.

	== What is the astral world? ==		== What is the astral world? ==

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	[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]		[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]

	In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.		In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. Sometimes the astral world is also characterised as an '''astral sea''', because in the spiritual experience it actually presents itself like a waving sea of soul impressions. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.

	== What is the astral world? ==		== What is the astral world? ==

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	[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]		[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]

	In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold.		In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold. The totality of the soul world with all the soul-spiritual beings living in it forms the '''world soul'''.

	== What is the astral world? ==		== What is the astral world? ==

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	[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]		[[File:Goetheanum1 Blaues Suedfenster.gif\|thumb\|300px\|[[The blue south window of the first Goetheanum]], showing the initiation into the cosmic astral world.]]

	In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral ~~plan~~''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold.		In the '''astral world''' (also called '''astral plane''', '''world-astrality''', '''soul world''', '''astral light''' or '''imaginative world'''; the lower regions of the astral world, which overlap with the [[etheric world]], are also called the [[elementary world]]), desire and suffering, affection and hatred, urges and desires are just as really present as the outer material objects are in the physical world. One can rightly speak of an independent '''soul-substance''', '''soul-materiality''' or '''astral matter''' - only the terms "matter" or "substance" must not be misunderstood in the physical-material sense. The world of the soul necessarily remains hidden from the physical senses; it only opens up to the imaginative gaze of the soul. [[Sympathy]] and [[antipathy]] are the two poles between which the soul forces dynamically unfold.

	== What is the astral world? ==		== What is the astral world? ==