“‘Astral’ Beings may thus be defined in the same way as ‘material objects’; they are the Unknown Causes of various observed effects. They may be of any order of existence. We give a physical form and name to a bell but not to its tone, though in each case we know nothing but our own impressions. But we record musical sounds by a special convention. We may therefore call a certain set of qualities ‘Ratziel’, or describe an impression as ‘Saturnian’ without pretending to know what anything is in itself. All we need is to know how to cast a bell that will please our ears, or how to evoke a ‘spirit’ that will tell us things that are hidden from our intellectual faculties.”
“Astral” Beings may thus be defined in the same way as “material objects”; they are the Unknown Causes of various observed effects. They may