Luz Astral

Luz Astral es un término usado por el ocultista Francés Eliphas Levi para referirse al medio de toda luz, energía y movimiento, muy de acuerdo con la teoría del éter luminífero comúnmente sostenido en el siglo XIX. En su visión, la luz astral era una fuerza vital fluídica que llena todo el espacio y los seres vivos.

H. P. Blavatsky adoptó el término y lo usó en sus escritos. La Luz Astral no es un principio universal, pero pertenece a nuestro planeta. Siendo un aspecto inferior del Ākāśa universal, abarca el segundo, tercero y cuarto de los Planos Prakríticos, aunque a veces se caracteriza por ser solo el segundo plano, correspondiente con el Liṅga-śarīra en los seres humanos.

La Luz Astral recive las "impresiones" producidas en el plano Terrestre y conserva un registro de todo lo que sucede.También refleja los planos superiores. Sin embargo, por su naturaleza, las reflexiones son fragmentarias y engañosas. La Luz Astral responde a la fuerza de voluntad y, por lo tanto, puede utilizarse para producir algunos Por su naturaleza, las reflexiones son fragmentarias y engañosas. La Luz Astral responde a la fuerza de voluntad y, por lo tanto, puede utilizarse para producir algunos fenómenos ocultos y psíquicos.

Descripción General

La Luz Astral no es un principio universal, pero pertenece a nuestro planeta, abrazando a los tres Planos prakríticos inferiores no objetivos:

The Astral Light is that which mirrors the three higher planes of consciousness, and is above the lower, or terrestrial plane; therefore it does not extend beyond the fourth plane, where, one may say, the Akâsa begins. There is one great difference between the Astral Light and the Akâsa which must be remembered. The latter is eternal, the former periodic. The Astral Light changes not only with the Maha manvantaras but also with every sub-period and planetary cycle or Round.

The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the second Principle of Kosmos (the third being Life, of which it is the vehicle) to the Linga Sharira or the Astral Double in man. A subtle Essence visible only to a clairvoyant eye, and the lowest but one (viz., the earth), of the Seven Akâsic or Kosmic Principles.

The Astral Light is not a universally diffused stuff, but pertains to our earth and all other bodies of the system on the same plane of matter with it. Our Astral Light is, so to speak, the Linga-Sharîra of our earth; only instead of being its primordial prototype, as in the case of our Chhâyâ, or Double, it is the reverse. While the human and animal bodies grow and develop in the model of their antetypal Doubles, it is the Astral Light that is born from the terrene emanations, grows and develops after its prototypal parent.

The "Great Serpent"

The Astral Light is originally a pure reflection of the higher planes. However, since it also absorbs the emanations (thoughts and emotions) produced on our plane, in the course of human evolution it becomes "polluted". This pollution is reflected on earth and becomes a source of moral and physical suffering to humanity:

As the Esoteric Philosophy teaches us, the Astral Light is simply the dregs of Akâsa or the Universal Ideation in its metaphysical sense. Though invisible, it is yet, so to speak, the phosphorescent radiation of the latter, and is the medium between it and man’s thought-faculties. It is these which pollute the Astral Light, and make it what it is—the storehouse of all human and especially psychic iniquities. In its primordial genesis, the astral light as a radiation is quite pure, though the lower it descends approaching our terrestrial sphere, the more it differentiates, and becomes as a result impure in its very constitution. But man helps considerably in this pollution, and gives it back its essence far worse than when he received it.

Eliphas Levi calls it the great Serpent and the Dragon from which radiates on Humanity every evil influence. This is so; but why not add that the Astral Light gives out nothing but what it has received; that it is the great terrestrial crucible, in which the vile emanations of the earth (moral and physical) upon which the Astral Light is fed, are all converted into their subtlest essence, and radiated back intensified, thus becoming epidemics--moral, psychic and physical.