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Title: The Astral Plane
Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena

Author: C. W. Leadbeater

Release Date: April 15, 2007 [EBook #21080]

Language: English

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THEOSOPHICAL MANUALS. No. 5

THE ASTRAL PLANE

ITS SCENERY, INHABITANTS AND

PHENOMENA

C. W. LEADBEATER

London:

Theosophical Publishing Society

7 Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C.

BENARES: THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY,

MADRAS: _The Theosophist_ OFFICE, ADYAR.

1895

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PREFACE.

_Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world.
It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public
demand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. Some have
complained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical,
and too expensive for the ordinary reader, and it is our hope that the
present series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want.
Theosophy is not only for the learned; it is for all. Perhaps among
those who in these little books catch their first glimpse of its
teachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetrate
more deeply into its philosophy, its science and its religion, facing
its abstruser problems with the student's zeal and the neophyte's
ardour. But these Manuals are not written for the eager student, whom
no initial difficulties can daunt; they are written for the busy men
and women of the work-a-day world, and seek to make plain some of the
great truths that render life easier to bear and death easier to face.
Written by servants of the Masters who are the Elder Brothers of our
race, they can have no other object