Astral body

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The astral body (from Greek ἀστήρ ástēr = "star", literally star body), also called Kama-Rupa in Indian theosophical terminology, is one of the 4 basic members of the earthly embodied human being. It is the basic carrier of consciousness, but not that of self-consciousness, which solely develops through the ego. The astral body of the human being "is the manifestation of his passions, his instincts, drives and desires, but also of all his thoughts and ideas. In this astral body the clairvoyant consciousness sees depicted all that is called mental experiences, from the lowest instinct up to the highest moral ideals."[1] (Lit.:GA 104, p. 52) It facilitates the experience of our senses, likes and dislikes, as well as sympathy and antipathy which are aroused by it and finally it allows for independent movement of the body and its sensory perception. Insofar as a more or less conscious inner world of the soul is already formed, the astral body forms the vessel in which the body of the soul unites or meshes with the soul of sensory perception (Lit.:GA 9, p. 58ff).

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