Victor H. Anderson - Etheric Anatomy: The Three Selves and Astral Travel

Who is this flower above me?
And what is the work of this God?
I would know myself in all my parts.

Publishers note: Oral tradition from Victor Anderson. When reciteddaily along with the Ha Prayer, the Flower Prayer strengthens contactwith the God Self and helps align the three souls.

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O UR P SYCHIC S TRUCTURE

A T THE TIME OF THIS writing, it is very difficult to find any material of any real value on etheric anatomy or the physical relationship of body and soul. Practically all of the older, more reliable data on the astral body, the out-of-body experience (OBE), and the nature of what we call the spirit world has been neglected, discarded or so worked over by doubters and skeptics as to be almost useless to the seeker after truth. In some of the modern teachings, the astral body is pictured as a ridiculous travesty of the human form, devoid of parts or passions and lit up like a Christmas tree by many shining chakras. They tell of six-foot wide auras and other clumsy superstructures with which we are supposed to go sailing through the life between lives. There are enough pitfalls awaiting the psychic whose powers are just beginning to unfold without getting bogged down in this morass. I did not just sit around and dream up the view I am presenting here; I learned to use my clairvoyant faculties and etheric sight the hard way! So let

When a Witch is examining the human body, what does she observe? Let us say that she is giving lessons in etheric sight to a male student who is already able to see in this way. (In my tradition there are circumstances in which a woman teaches a man, or man teaches a woman, though not always.) A priestess, chosen for her clarity of psy-vision, has two coven members lying nude on a sheet of black velvet. One is female, the other male, and they are lying still under light hypnosis. Both subjects should be fairly young, in good health and at ease with each other. They should be a married couple or a pair working together in what we call the full rite, having regular sexual intercourse. The best light source is an incandescent bulb shining through the thin metal film of a two-way mirror.

As the etheric structure of the male is simpler than that of the female, the seer usually begins with him. The priestess quietly calls our attention to the male. From all sides of the flesh of his nude body, a shadowy but somewhat luminous replica of the physical body extends about two centimeters. (In a very few cases, it measures an inch out from the dense body.) At first it looks a sort of blue-gray in color. As the psy-vision becomes clearer, this double, or energy body, is seen to have apeculiar light electric pink hue. It hugs close to the dense body and follows its form closely. Then comes the surprise. There is a difference so remarkable that the student has to be warned of it lest it shock him out of the very light autohypnotic state necessary at this stage in training.