During the act of Dreaming, the fragments of Mental Impressions and Images float about, like the motes that dance in the sunbeams to the Central Sun. Touching each other, they blend and adhere to each other, thereby forming as it were, a great system of Mental Telepathy. During sleep these Astral Waves of thought and Mental Impressions, pass and flow from soul to soul, with wonderful accuracy and exactness, for these Mental and Occult Currents of thought, dominate over the physical sense organs. The regular outward organs of thought are for the time suspended. Sensation and physical perception, memory, reflection, desire and action no longer succeed each other in the manner of the waking state. When the mind is especially sensitive and passive, it becomes so clear that impressions of ideas or, of facts, and also Spirit Communications may be received from the Souls of the Astral Plane, or from minds distant, still inhabiting the body, or even from those in our immediate surroundings. This Occult Auro or Astral Fluid is even finer than the ordinary sunlight, hence, it is impossible to represent its extreme beauty and delicacy, in a painting or an engraving, and it is only to be seen by the sensitive Medium or Clairvoyant under a decidedly increasing intensity of common vision, or at such times as the rods and cones of the eye become more tense under some forms of mental excitement, when consequently, they vibrate to the fine Occult Auros and Astral Waves. This Auro will then appear as a soft, diffused light around the head and form of an individual, or it may shoot out in glowing bands or it may form irridescent clouds at a greater or less distance from him.

This Auro and Astral Force often appears like a crown of Spiritual Brightness, decorated with flaming jewels. When a person is greatly excited and active, this Aurora will be' bright and intense, flashing up vividly. This is sometimes expressed by saying that your mind feels bright. A public speaker whose soul and mind is greatly excited, is said to make a brilliant effort. Those who use these terms regard them simply as figures of speech, little dreaming that in Occult Science it will be proved that they were true in the most literal sense. During sickness this Auro is thrown off from the body of the person who is dull and obscure, for during sickness the mind is dull and the thought slow. A refined and Spiritually developed person will throw off an Auro of clear light blue color. But the Auro of one of the opposite nature, in which sensuality predominates, will be of a dull red and foul and impure in its nature. When a person is enlightened, he increases the quality and quantity of this Astral Force. To the eye of the sensitive, or the Clairvoyant, these Astral Auros appear like an illuminous force of sunlight, radiating from the body of an individual as only Astral Waves give out a light that is of infinite softness. This is sometimes spoken of as the sun of righteousness.

A good Auro is the reward of intellectual culture, refined and Spiritual excellence. Every object radiates Astral Forces which impress an image of itself upon the soul of the Clairvoyant and also upon surrounding objects, for if you lay a key or ring upon a' smooth plate of steel for a short time, and then remove it, the image of the key or ring may be evoked by heating the plate. This may be done years after the contact, so, whether consciously or not, the human mind and soul and the objects of the Universe are thus continually writing their history in these marvelous pictures. By coming in contact with a person or an object the sensitive or Clairvoyant may perceive and describe the images and impressions they have received and retained. For example, by holding a manuscript letter in gentle contact with the forehead or the hand, the personal appearance and even the thoughts of the writer at the time of writing may be faithfully described. A fossil plant, or animal examined in this way, gives up a faithful picture of its ancient surroundings, in pre-historic ages. In the experiments and Occult Work of the Hindus, this is done again and again. Those acts of contact which express the various forms of affection prove the reality of this Spiritual Auro beyond all possibility of a doubt.

All animals with a distinct nervous system, from the insignificant worm up to man, express their sexual, parental, filial or friendly affection, by the contact of caressing. Among human beings alone, there are millions of examples where this fact is fully illustrated daily. And only one explanation is possible. There must be* some actual force passing from one living being to another in these acts of caressing. This soul and Astral Force is a vital part to everyone and its projection and reception in this way is just as real as the reception of force through the food we eat; thus parental, filial, fraternal and sex-love are connected with the lips and with the bosom; hence, kissing or caressing brings out this Auro or force which expresses these affections.

Through this radiating force one person actually imparts something of his being to another person and to every being which he touches, or is brought in contact with, and, in turn, he constantly receives from the accumulated force left by others, and it is by the means of these influences, or Auro, which is invisible to the physical eye of man, that a dog is able to follow his Master or identify him by a garment that he has worn. In any locality where a large number of wise, good and refined people exist, there will be an Auro thrown out and radiated from one to the other, that will last for many years. Such a refined atmosphere or Auro is highly favorable to clearness of thought, social and spirtual harmony. It is a part of human destiny to surround a given point in this way with the living Auro of refinement, Spiritual Truth and Love. This law should teach man that he is responsible to his fellow being for every thought, and feeling which he entertains as well as for every action which he performs. These silent Occult Auros and Astral waves vibrate from soul to soul, whether the soul inhabits the Spirit World or whether it still retains its habitation in the physical body.

All human souls are united by an inseparable link of a composite Spiritual and Occult Force and when the Hindu tells you that there is a great Occult Antiquity and Sympathy existing between all things in the Universe he speaks the truth.

"India, The Land Of Occultism"

In this broad land, the gathered Occult thought of centuries is Presented in all its varied acceptations. The Disciple needs must reap superabundant Harvest, perhaps the most, from those Who differ farthest; as I have heard, Sometimes extremes, by meeting, But prove they have a circle been completing.

Dr. de Laurence.