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Chapter III.
CLAIEVOYANT SIGHT.
This brings before us another very important
consideration. All these varieties of finer matter
exist not only in the world without, but they
exist in man also. He has not only the physical
body which we see, but he has also within him
what we may describe as bodies appropriate to
these various planes of nature, and consisting in
each case of their matter. In the man's physical
body there is etheric matter as well as the solid
matter which is visible to us (see Plates XXIV.
and XXV.); and this etheric matter is readily
visible to the clairvoyant. In the same way a
more highly developed clairvoyant who was cap-
able of perceiving the more refined astral matter,
would see the man represented at that level by a
mass of that matter, which is in reality his body
or vehicle as regards that plane ; and exactly the
same thing is true with regard to the mental
plane in its turn. The soul of man has not one
body, but many bodies, for when sufficiently
CLAIEVOYANT SIGHT.
This brings before us another very important
consideration. All these varieties of finer matter
exist not only in the world without, but they
exist in man also. He has not only the physical
body which we see, but he has also within him
what we may describe as bodies appropriate to
these various planes of nature, and consisting in
each case of their matter. In the man's physical
body there is etheric matter as well as the solid
matter which is visible to us (see Plates XXIV.
and XXV.); and this etheric matter is readily
visible to the clairvoyant. In the same way a
more highly developed clairvoyant who was cap-
able of perceiving the more refined astral matter,
would see the man represented at that level by a
mass of that matter, which is in reality his body
or vehicle as regards that plane ; and exactly the
same thing is true with regard to the mental
plane in its turn. The soul of man has not one
body, but many bodies, for when sufficiently