Meaning of astral body | Babel Free

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A ghost-like replica of one's physical body which supposedly inhabits or is somehow associated with the physical body, conceived as a subtle body composed of some sort of ethereal material or as being non-physical and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body to travel to other places or to other realms of existence.

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“"I suppose⟳ I am not talking to you at all. You are in Thibet with Shere Ali. This is your astral body, and if I were near enough, I could poke my fingers right through you, as you sit⟳ there, telling me you are an Edinburgh doctor, forsooth." "Quite right, Mr. Griggs. At the present⟳ moment my body is quietly asleep in a lamastery in Thibet, and this is my astral shape⟳.”

“"I kept the Jewel within my great safe, whence none could extract it; not even Queen Tera herself with her astral body."”

“"You fool, have⟳ I no means of searching other than in the physical?" cried the man wrathfully. "I have⟳ been looking for him from the other side. It is as easy for me to use⟳ my astral body as this physical one."”

“I am not ready to ridicule the claim⟳ of the Yogi adepts, that they are able to project some kind of astral body, and to communicate with one another from distant places.”

“The voice in this case belongs to a lovely lady who has been most foully stabbed and while her body remains in a thug-infested old manse her astral body goes to ask⟳ Topper's assistance—probably the first instance on record⟳ in which the murdered victim was the first to inform⟳ the public.”

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