Leadbeater, Charles W.: Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of different types of men as seen by means of trained clairvoyance (London, 1902)

Chapter XII.

WHAT HIS BODIES SHOW US.

This process of learning is a gradual one, and
the earlier manifestations of the undeveloped
man upon the lower planes are by no means
beautiful to see. We have not chosen absolutely
the primitive man for illustration, because in his
case there is as yet so very little to illustrate;
but the savage whose causal body is represented
in Plate V. would be likely to possess much
such a mental body as is shown in Plate VI., and
an astral body of the type given in Plate VII.

It must be understood that all these bodies
occupy the same space, and interpenetrate
one another; so that in looking clairvoyantly
at the savage we should observe his physical
body surrounded by a luminous ovoid mist,
but that mist would present to us the appear-
ance of Plate V., Plate VI, or Plate VII.
according to the type of clairvoyance which
we employed. Using our own astral senses,
we should see his astral body only, and