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Planes of existence Subtle bodies Image File history File links Derived from public domain images featured at: http://commons. ... In metaphysics and esoteric cosmology, a plane of existence (sometimes called simply a plane, dimension, vibrating plane, or an inner, invisible, spiritual, supraphysical world, or egg) is a theoretical region of space (and/or consciousness) beyond, but permeating, the known physical universe (or the region of the physical universe itself... The Subtle body is a non-physical energy or psycho-spiritual body or bodies that all beings have, according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings. ...
The Winged Self
Theosophy
Causal plane: Causal body Mental plane: Mental body Astral plane: body, projection Etheric plane: Etheric body Physical plane: Physical body Image File history File links The Winged Self The purpose of The Winged Self Symbol is to focus thought in the inner Divine perfection of each individual. ... The Winged Self: The purpose of The Winged Self Symbol is to focus thought in the inner Divine perfection of each individual. ... Seal of the Theosophical Society Theosophy is a body of ideas which holds that all religions are attempts by man to ascertain the Divine, and as such each religion has a portion of the truth. ... The Mental Plane in Hermeticism, Theosophical, Aurobindonian, and New Age thought refers to the macrocosmic or universal plane or reality that is made up purely of thought or mindstuff. ... The Mental Body is one of the Subtle Bodies in Theosophy and New Age thought. ... The Astral plane, also called the Astral World, Astral Universe or Desire World, is a plane of existence according to various philosophies and belief systems. ... An astral body is a form in which a person is believed to be able to travel out of their physical body. ... Astral projection (or astral travel) is a controversial interpretation of out-of-body experiences achieved either consciously or via lucid dreaming, deep meditation, or use of disassociatives and psychedelics, like DXM, LSD, Psilocybin or 5-MeO-DMT. Proponents of astral projection maintain that their consciousness or soul has transferred into... The Etheric Body is one of the Subtle Bodies in Theosophy and New Age thought. ... The Physical Plane or Physical Universe in Hermeticism, Theosophical and New Age thought refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter. ... Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ...
Rosicrucian
The 7 Worlds & the 7 Cosmic Planes The Seven-fold constitution of Man The Ten-fold constitution of Man The Temple of the Rose Cross, Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, 1618. ... The Rosicrucian Fellowship Emblem The Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909/11 by Max Heindel as herald of the Aquarian Age and with the aim of promulgating the Rosicrucian teachings of the Mystery School of the West, the invisible Rosicrucian Order (which, according to Max Heindel, is an Order in... The Rosicrucian Fellowship Emblem The Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909/11 by Max Heindel as herald of the Aquarian Age and with the aim of promulgating the Rosicrucian teachings of the Mystery School of the West, the invisible Rosicrucian Order (which, according to Max Heindel, is an Order in... The Rosicrucian Fellowship Emblem The Rosicrucian Fellowship was founded in 1909/11 by Max Heindel as herald of the Aquarian Age and with the aim of promulgating the Rosicrucian teachings of the Mystery School of the West, the invisible Rosicrucian Order (which, according to Max Heindel, is an Order in...
Surat Shabda Yoga
Cosmology // Surat Shabd Yoga or Surat Shabda Yoga is a form of spiritual practice that is followed in the Sant Mat and many other spiritual traditions. ... Surat Shabd Yoga or Surat Shabda Yoga is a form of spiritual practice that is followed in the Sant Mat and many other related spiritual traditions. ...
Sufism
Sufi cosmology Tanazzulut Sufism (Arabic تصوف taṣawwuf) is a mystic tradition of Islam based on the pursuit of spiritual truth as it is gradually revealed to the heart and mind of the Sufi (one who practices Sufism). ... Although there is no consensus with regard to Sufi cosmology, one can disentangle various threads that led to the crystallization of more or less coherent cosmological doctrines. ...
Hinduism
Lokas
Buddhism
Deva lokas
Kabbalah
Olam
Fourth Way
Ray of Creation The Laws Three Centres Five Centres Basic beliefs What can be said to be common to all Hindus is the belief in Dharma (duties and obligations), Samsara (Reincarnation/rebirth), Karma (actions, leading to a cause and effect relationship), and Moksha (salvation) of every soul through a variety of paths, such as Bhakti (devotion), Karma (action) and... In metaphysics and esoteric cosmology, a plane of existence (sometimes called simply a plane, dimension, vibrating plane, or an inner, invisible, spiritual, or supraphysical world) is a theoretical region of space and/or consciousness beyond the known physical universe, or the region containing the universe itself. ... The term Buddha is a word in ancient Indian languages including Pāli and Sanskrit which means one who has awakened. It is derived from the verbal root budh, meaning to awaken or to be enlightened, and to comprehend. It is written in Devanagari script as Hindi: and pronounced as... Devaloka is a sanskit word which means, literally, plane of beings of light, referring to a higher plane of existence where Gods and Devas exist. ... Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה reception, Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah, Kaballah) is an interpretation (exegesis, hermeneutic) key, soul of the Torah (Hebrew Bible), or the religious mystical system of Judaism claiming an insight into divine nature. ... Sephirah, also Sefirah (Hebrew language סְפִירָה Enumeration); plural Sephiroth or Sefiroth סְפִירוֹת. ... The Fourth Way is the title of the posthumously published 1957 book by P. D. Ouspensky that describes the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff. ... The Ray of Creation is a metaphysical cosmology which was taught by G.I. Gurdjieff. ... In the school of thought created by G.I. Gurdjieff The Laws are governing principles of the universe. ... The Three Centres are a teaching within some Gurdjieffian Fourth Way groups relating to his teaching of Three-brained beings, Law of Three, Law of Seven, etc. ... The Five Centres are a teaching within some Gurdjieffian Fourth Way groups relating to his teaching of the Three Centres, Three-brained beings, Law of Three, Law of Seven, etc. ...
Popular culture
Plane (Dungeons & Dragons)   Inner Plane   Prime Material Plane   Outer Plane Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in any given society. ... See plane (cosmology) for the common meaning of plane as used in cosmology. ... The Inner Planes are the innermost planes of existence in the standard cosmology of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. ... ... The Outer Planes are the outermost planes of existence in the standard cosmology of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. ...

The etheric plane or etheric region is one of the planes of existence, or more specifically a subplane or planes, in Theosophy and New Age thought. According to C.W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant (Adyar School of Theosophy), and Alice Bailey, the etheric plane constitutes the four higher subplanes of the physical plane, the lower three being the states of solid, liquid, and gaseous matter. In metaphysics and esoteric cosmology, a plane of existence (sometimes called simply a plane, dimension, vibrating plane, or an inner, invisible, spiritual, supraphysical world, or egg) is a theoretical region of space (and/or consciousness) beyond, but permeating, the known physical universe (or the region of the physical universe itself... Seal of the Theosophical Society Theosophy is a body of ideas which holds that all religions are attempts by man to ascertain the Divine, and as such each religion has a portion of the truth. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... C.W. Leadbeater (1847 or 1854-1934), English clergyman and Theosophical author, contributed to world thought mostly through his work as a clairvoyant. ... Annie Besant Thought-form of the music of Charles Gounod, according to Besant and C.W. Leadbeater in Thought-Forms (1901) Annie Wood Besant (Clapham, London October 1, 1847 - India September 20, 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, womens rights activist, writer and orator. ... The Theosophical Society - Adyar is a successor organization to the original Theosophical Society founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others in 1875. ... Alice A. Bailey (1880‑1949), writer and lecturer on neo-theosophy, was born in England in 1880 as Alice LaTrobe Bateman. ... The Physical Plane or Physical Universe in Hermeticism, Theosophical and New Age thought refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter. ...

It might be argued that the etheric plane is in part equivalent to Sri Aurobindo's concept of the subtle physical. In Anthroposophy the equivalent is the etheric formative forces. Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শ্রী অরবিন্দ) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, Hindu mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. ... The Subtle physical is Sri Aurobindos term for a subtler aspect of the physical nature. ... Anthroposophy, also called spiritual science by its founder, Rudolf Steiner is a spiritual philosophy and system of beliefs and practice (or, as some opponents claim, a religion), that sprung from the Theosophy movement. ...

Etymology

See Aether (classical element) The aether is the fifth classical element in ancient Greek philosophy and science. ...

The aether (also written as "ether") was widely accepted in ancient Greek philosophy and science. This Greek concept seems to derive directly from the akasha, its Hindu counterpart. In Greek doctrines it seems that the aether was the celestial fire, the pure essence where the gods lived and which they breathed. In this connection, it seems that aether is radiative heat like that of the sun, which is able to propagate in empty space. The Greek word aither derives from an Indo-European root aith- ("burn, shine"). This root figures in the name of Aithiopia (Ethiopia), which means something like "burnt land". Classical (or early) Greek philosophy focused on the role of reason and inquiry. ... Akasha is the Hindi/Sanskrit word meaning aether in both its elemental and mythological senses. ... The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. ...

Alchemy background

Rosicrucian and Esoteric Christianity conceptions

According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings ^[1], there is - in addition to the solids, liquids, and gases which compose the Chemical Region of the Physical World - a finer grade of matter called ether, which permeates the atomic structure of the earth and its atmosphere. The ether, which is disposed in four grades of density, is considered to be physical matter and responsive to the same laws which govern other physical substances upon the physical world (the blue haze seen in mountain canyons is said to be in fact ether of the kind known to occult investigators as chemical ether). He states that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: etheric vision, color vision, and tonal vision. Ether is reported to be of four kinds, or grades of density (from the lowest to the highest one) ^[2]:
- the Chemical ether: both positive and negative in manifestation and it is related to the assimilation and excretion processes;
- the Life ether: has also a positive and negative pole and it is related to the forces of propagation;
- the Light ether: the positive pole is related to forces which generate blood heat in the higher species of animal and in the human being and the negative is related to the forces which operate through the senses (passive functions of sight, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling);
- the Reflective ether: the medium through which thought makes an impression upon the human brain and this ether cointains pictures which work as reflexions of the memory of nature found at the World of Thought.
Heindel states there are in this Etheric region various classes of sub-human beings and also here it may be observed the Angels who are seen as being one step beyond the human stage, as humans are a degree in advance of the animal evolution. Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Denmark on July 23, 1865 ‑ United States, January 6, 1919) was a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. ... The Temple of the Rose Cross, Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, 1618. ... Helium atom (not to scale) Showing two protons (red), two neutrons (green) and a probability cloud (gray) of two electrons (yellow). ... Layers of Atmosphere (NOAA) Earths atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth and retained by the Earths gravity. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is the concentration of matter, or, a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... Clairvoyance is defined as a form of extra-sensory perception that it is claimed allows a person to perceive distant objects, persons, or events, including seeing through opaque objects and the detection of types of energy not normally perceptible to humans (i. ... Assimilation, from Latin assimilatio meaning to render similar, is used to describe various phenomena: schema (psychology), the process of assimilating new ideas into a schema (cognitive structure). ... Excretion is the biological process by which an organism chemically separates waste products from its body. ... The word propagation can mean: Multiplication or increase, as by natural reproduction. ... Senses are the physiological methods of perception. ... The Mental Body is one of the Subtle Bodies in Theosophy and New Age thought. ... Comparative brain sizes In the anatomy of animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for in the head), is the higher, supervisory center of the nervous system. ... The Akashic Records (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning sky, space or aether) are said to be a collection of mystical knowledge that is stored in the aether; i. ... The Mental Plane in Hermeticism, Theosophical, Aurobindonian, and New Age thought refers to the macrocosmic or universal plane or reality that is made up purely of thought or mindstuff. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

According to Esoteric Christianity teachings, based upon the Bible and in esoteric knowledge, the next major step in human evolution will be entering and living in the Etheric region of the planet, through a major change which is expected to occur in the Earth's environment ("reserved unto fire") in a future, not identified, time: the "new heavens and a new earth", or "New Galilee". It also teaches that, in order to the human being be able to adapt to these new etheric conditions, it is necessary the development of a body, named Soul body (Paul of Tarsus' "soma psuchicon") or the "Wedding Garment" as taught in the Holy Scriptures, eg.: The Winged Self: The purpose of The Winged Self Symbol is to focus thought in the inner Divine perfection of each individual. ... The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity (The Bible actually refers to at least two... Esoteric knowledge is knowledge that is secret or not generally known. ... An early portrait of the Apostle Paul. ...

• "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, (...) And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:" (Matthew 22:2,11 KJV)
• "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." (Revelation 21:2)
• "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked." (2 Corinthians 5:1-3)

However, it also states that before entering "New Galilee" - as mankind walk forward to the understandings of universal brotherhood, during the next six centuries toward the Age of Aquarius - the spiritual sight will start developing allowing human beings to perceive the so-called "dead" living in the supraphysical planes. The Gospel of Matthew (literally: according to Matthew, Greek: Κατα Μαθθαιον ) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ... For information on the last book of the New Testament see the Book of Revelation. ... (Redirected from 2 Corinthians) See also: First Epistle to the Corinthians and Third Epistle to the Corinthians The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible New Testament. ... Brotherhood has multiple meanings: Siblings: The relationship between male offspring, Fraternity: Sodality, or people engaged in a particular occupation; the medical fraternity Brotherhood: The feeling that men should treat one another as brothers Labor union: Union, trade union, brotherhood, an organization of employees formed to bargain with an employer Brotherhood... The Age of Aquarius (starting around the 27th century) is one of the twelve astrological ages. ... Clairvoyance is defined as a form of extra-sensory perception that it is claimed allows a person to perceive distant objects, persons, or events, including seeing through opaque objects and the detection of types of energy not normally perceptible to humans (i. ... In metaphysics and esoteric cosmology, a plane of existence (sometimes called simply a plane, dimension, vibrating plane, or an inner, invisible, spiritual, supraphysical world, or egg) is a theoretical region of space (and/or consciousness) beyond, but permeating, the known physical universe (or the region of the physical universe itself...

New scientific conception of the Aether (ether)

During the 19th century science adopted ideas and developed theories related to the luminiferous aether and performed several experiments in order to discover its nature. One of these experiments was the famous Michelson-Morley experiment (1887), based in earlier theories of the invisible aether (or ether). This experiment disproved the existence of an aether to early physics and after Einstein conceived the theory of relativity (and related 'four-space'), since 1904, this conception of an aether was dismissed. However modern scientific theoretical research ^[3], shows that the 19th century Earnshaw's Theorem (1839) - in which the Michelson-Morley experiment and others were based - had an unnoticed flaw which consisted mainly in assuming aether as fixed and electromagnetic in nature; the later Einstein's special and general theory of relativy deviated physics from being able to understand the true nature of the invisible aether. This new paradigm, built through mathematics and physics theoretical language, explains how the invisible aether creates, permeates and interacts with all matter. Through this conception it is possible to explain all the major phenomena which current-day physics is not able to, or that in order to do it has necessity to create several particular, but incompatible, theories. Some of these questions are related to what gravity really is and how it works, about the creation of the proton, the nuclear fusion, creation of stars and planets, the Big bang, etc. According to physicist Harold Aspden, the conception of the structure of the invisible aether, working beyond matter, gives the answer to the long awaited "Unified Field Theory" of physics: The luminiferous aether: it was hypothesised that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that carries light In the late 19th century the luminiferous aether (light-bearing aether), or ether, was a substance postulated to be the medium for the propagation of light. ... The Michelson-Morley experiment, one of the most important and famous experiments in the history of physics, was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University, and is considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of a luminiferous... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported flowers drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Earnshaws theorem states that a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in an equilibrium configuration solely by the electrostatic interaction of the charges. ... The Michelson-Morley experiment, one of the most important and famous experiments in the history of physics, was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University, and is considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of a luminiferous... A simple introduction to this subject is provided in Special relativity for beginners Special relativity (SR) or the special theory of relativity is the physical theory published in 1905 by Albert Einstein in his article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. SR theory is based on the previous works of... General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. ... Since the late 1800s, the word paradigm (IPA: ) has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mathematics Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles — A collection of articles on various math topics, with interactive Java... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported flowers drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... ... Properties In physics, the proton (Greek proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit (1. ... The deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction is considered the most promising for producing fusion power. ... For alternate meanings see star (disambiguation) Hundreds of stars are visible in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Sagittarius Star Cloud in the Milky Way Galaxy. ... A planet (from the Greek πλανήτης, planetes or wanderers) is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that produces very little or no energy through nuclear fusion. ... According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe originated in an extremely dense and hot state (bottom). ... In physics, unified field theory is an attempt to unify all the fundamental forces and the interactions between elementary particles into a single theoretical framework. ...

• The message is: "Accept the aether is real and has structure and you can understand how matter is created - but ignore the aether and you live in ignorance!"

• The next message is: "Accept the aether is real and contains a system of electric charges that have a common circular motion which is shared by matter present and you will see the need for something that provides dynamic mass balance. That something is a system of gravitons and they are what governs G, the constant of gravitation. Ignore the aether and you have no way of understanding how G might be evaluated and so resolve the mystery of Unified Field Theory." ^[4]

New theoretical and experimental field of research, called Aetherometry ^[5], created by biophysicist and molecular biologist Paulo Correa and his collaborator Alexandra Correa points a description of the invisible aether, which permeates all matter and its subatomic structure, as dynamic massfree energy (its critical characteristic) being weightless, not electromagnetic, nor composed of photons, nor monopolar electric nor even electric per se (aether encompasses both electric and nonelectric forms of massfree energy, with the former being ambipolar and not monopolar). Matter is then conceived as being aether energy imprisoned in electrically stable constructs that deploy inertial properties in order to conserve both mass (mass-energy) and massbound charge. Aetherometry is the name given to the experimental and theoretical study of massfree energy introduced by biophysicist and molecular biologist Paulo Correa and his collaborator Alexandra Correa. ... Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology. ... Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. ... Helium atom (not to scale) Showing two protons (red), two neutrons (green) and a probability cloud (gray) of two electrons (yellow). ... Aetherometry is the name given to the experimental and theoretical study of massfree energy developed by biophysicist and molecular biologist Paulo Correa and his collaborator Alexandra Correa. ... Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: a field, encompassing all of space, composed of the electric field and the magnetic field. ... In physics, the photon (from Greek φοτος, meaning light) is a quantum of excitation of the quantised electromagnetic field and is one of the elementary particles studied by quantum electrodynamics (QED) which is the oldest part of the Standard Model of particle physics. ... The article on electrical energy is located elsewhere. ... Mass is a property of physical objects that, roughly speaking, measures the amount of matter they contain. ...

These new scientific conceptions and experiments - although not supported by scientific consensus and under heavy discussion among mainstream scientific community - are seen as starting to approach the basic teachings of esoteric movements and schools, throughout current and past civilizations, about the invisible etheric realm. The scientific community consists of the interactions and relationships of scientists. ... Etymology Esoteric is an adjective originating during Hellenic Greece under the domain of the Roman Empire; it comes from the Greek esôterikos, from esôtero, the comparative form of esô: within. It is a word meaning anything that is inner and occult, a latinate word meaning hidden (from which...

See also

• Pseudoscience
• Etheric body
• Esoteric cosmology
• Aether theories
• Aether (classical element)
• Aether and general relativity
• Aetherometry
• Luminiferous aether
• Timeline of luminiferous aether

Phrenology is seen today as a classic example of pseudoscience. ... The Etheric Body is one of the Subtle Bodies in Theosophy and New Age thought. ... Esoteric cosmology is cosmology that is an intrinsic part of an esoteric or occult system of thought. ... In natural philosophy, aether (a. ... The aether is the fifth classical element in ancient Greek philosophy and science. ... A spacetime that conforms to Machs principle can be considered to display certain physical characteristics that might otherwise be considered to be properties of a physical light-medium, or aether. Einstein, 1920: Machs idea finds its full development in the ether of the general theory of relativity. ... Aetherometry is the name given to the experimental and theoretical study of massfree energy introduced by biophysicist and molecular biologist Paulo Correa and his collaborator Alexandra Correa. ... The luminiferous aether: it was hypothesised that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that carries light In the late 19th century the luminiferous aether (light-bearing aether), or ether, was a substance postulated to be the medium for the propagation of light. ... the Timeline of Luminiferous Aether begins in the late 19th century with the concept of the aether (light-bearing aether), or ether, as a medium for electromagnetic propagation. ...

References

1. ^  Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Mysteries (Chapter III, The Visible and the Invisible Worlds), 1911, ISBN 0-911274-86-3, www
2. ^  Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (Chapter I.2, The Etheric Region of the Physical World), 1909, ISBN 0-911274-34-0, www
3. ^  Aspden, Harold, The Physics of Creation (i.e. Chapter 7: "Aether Structure"), 2003, pdf
4. ^  Aspden, Harold, Physics without Einstein - A Centenary Review (i.e. Chapter IV: "The Way Forward - The Aether: A Preliminary Note; Analysis of Aether Structure; ..."), 2005, pdf
5. ^  Why Speak of an Aether? Aetherometry, scientific theoretical and experimental research, 2001