The Astral Light

An all-permeating subtle fluid that interpenetrates all things and is the magical agent of the Formative World. The concept of the astral light was developed primarily by ELIPHAS LEVI.

Light that is just beautiful at Dawn in Urunga NSW

Levi described the astral light as:

. . . an agent which is natural and divine, material and
spiritual, a universal plastic mediator, a common receptacle
of the vibrations of motion and the images of form,
a fl uid and a force, which may be called in some way the
Imagination of Nature. . . . The existence of this force is
the great Arcanum of practical Magic.

Israel Regardie said of the astral light:
Vibrating at another rate of motion than does the gross
substance of the physical world, and thus existing on a
higher plane, the Astral Light contains the builder’s plan
or model, so to speak, projected downwards by the Idealization
or Imagination of the Father; the plan on which the
external world is constructed, and within whose essence
lies latent the potentiality of all growth and development.

 The astral light has electric, magnetic, and radioactive properties. It is represented in various symbol s, such as the girdle of Isis, the bull-headed serpent , the goat- or dogheaded serpent, the ouroboros, the emblem of Prudence, the symbol of Saturn, the winged dr agon of Medea, the double serpent of the caduceus, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, the brazen serpent of Moses entwined around the tau cross or the generative lingam, the Hyle of Gnosis, the double tail that forms the legs of the Gnostic deity Abraxas, the goat of the witches’ sabbats, and baphomet .
We find the following in G. de Purucker's Occult Glossary.

The astral light is with regard to the material realms of the solar system the copy or reflection of what the akasa is in the spiritual realms. The astral light is the mother of the physical, just as the spirit is the mother of the akasa or, inversely, the physical is merely the concretion of the astral, just as the akasha is the veil or concretion of the highest spiritual.

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