Astral Bodies Quotes

“It does
not matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us of
a night that mankind had never heard of, it being outside the sphere
of its activities and of no earthly importance to anybody but to the
astronomers who are paid to talk learnedly about its composition,
weight, path--the irregularities of its conduct, the aberrations of its
light--a sort of scientific scandal-mongering.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“[The causal] body is a matrix of the 35 ideas required by God as the basic or causal thought forces.

The subtle astral body [has] 19 elements

The gross physical body [has] 16 elements. [These are] 16 gross metallic and nonmetallic elements.

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The 19 elements of the astral body are mental, emotional and lifetronic. The 19 components are:
[1] Intelligence
[2] ego
[3] feeling
[4] mind (sense-cosnciousness)
[5-9] five intruments of knowledge, the subtle counterparts of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, aste, touch,
[10-14] five instruments of action, the mental correspondence for the executive abilities to procreate, excrete, talk, walk and exercise manual skill
[15-19] five instruments of life force, those empowered to perform the crystallizing assimilating, eliminating, metabolizing, and circulating functions of the body.

pg424, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi