Table of Contents
Preface by Annie Besant
Introduction by C. J. Jinarajadasa
CHAPTER I - A GENERAL SURVEY
CHAPTER II - SCENERY
The Seven Subdivisions; Degrees of Materiality;
Characteristics of Astral Vision; The Aura; The Etheric
Double; Power of Magnifying Minute Objects; The “Summerland”; Records in Astral Matter.
CHAPTER III - INHABITANTS
a. Human (1) Living: The Adept or his Pupil; The Psychically
Developed Person; The Ordinary Person; The Black
Magician. (2) Dead: The Nirmanakaya; The Pupil
awaiting Reincarnation; The Ordinary person after Death;
The Shade; The Shell; The Vitalized Shell;The Suicide;
The Victim of Sudden Death; The Vampire; The Werewolf;
The Grey World; The Black Magician after Death.
b. Non-Human
The Elemental Essence; The Astral Bodies of Animals;
Various Classes of Nature-Spirits, commonly called Fairies; Kamadevas; Rupadevas; Arupadevas; The Devarajas.
c. Artificial
Elementals formed Unconsciously; Guardian Angels;
Elementals formed Consciously; Human Artificials;
The True Origin of Spiritualism.
CHAPTER IV - PHENOMENA
Churchyard Ghosts; Apparitions of the Dying;
Haunted Localities; Family Ghosts; Bell-ringing, Stone-
throwing, etc.; Fairies; Communicating Entities;
Astral Resources; Clairvoyance; Prevision; Second-
Sight; Astral Force; Etheric Currents; Etheric Pressure;
Latent Energy; Sympathetic Vibration; Mantras;
Disintegration; Materialization; Why Darkness is Required
at a Séance; Spirit Photographs; Reduplication; Precipitation
of Letters and Pictures; Slate-writing; Levitation; Spirit
Lights; Handling Fire; Transmutation; Repercussion.
CHAPTER V - CONCLUSION
