Hellsehen (Clairvoyance)

the most diverse characters, for death, which appears as such an absolute change to our limited vision, does not actually change the person at all. On the day after his death, he is exactly the same person he was before, with the same inclinations, the same qualities, the same virtues and vices. The only difference is that he has cast off his physical body. However, the loss of this body does not make him a different person, any more than taking off an overcoat would. So, our researcher in the astral world the emotional plane of existence will find among the dead both intelligent and stupid, kind-hearted and grumpy, serious and frivolous, spiritual and sensual beings, just as among the living.

Since he can not only see the dead but also speak with them, he can often be very useful to them by enlightening and guiding them. This is of invaluable worth to them. Many of them find themselves in a state of the greatest embarrassment and confusion, and sometimes even in great distress. This happens because they find the facts of the other world to be so completely different from the childish legends spread by the popular religion of the West regarding this extremely important subject. Therefore, someone who understands this new world and can provide explanation is truly a helper in time of need.

In a completely different way, a person who fully possesses this ability can be just as helpful to the living as to the dead. My small book Invisible Helpers original: "Unsichtbare Helfer" This refers to C. W. Leadbeater's book "Invisible Helpers," published as part of a lecture series in Leipzig. provides more detailed information on this. Besides astral entities, he will see astral corpses, including shadows remnants of the lower emotions and hulls discarded astral shells in all stages of decay. These shall only be mentioned briefly here, as the reader who wishes to know more about them will find a detailed description in the third and fifth manuals Referencing the Theosophical Manuals by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater.

Another wonderful effect of fully possessing astral clairvoyance is that his consciousness no longer suffers any interruption. When he

lies down to sleep in the evening, he leaves his physical body to the rest it needs, while he goes about his business in his much more comfortable astral body the emotional vehicle of the soul. In the morning, he returns and enters his physical body again, but without losing the slightest bit of consciousness or memory between the two states. Thus, he is able to lead a double life, as it were, which is nevertheless only one life. He is able to be usefully active during the entire time of his life instead of losing a third of it in dull unconsciousness.

Another strange power he possesses, though full mastery of it belongs rather to devachanic mental plane abilities, is that he can enlarge the smallest physical or astral atom at will, much like through a microscope. No microscope exists, nor probably ever will, that possesses even a thousandth part of this psychic magnifying power. Through this, the hypothetical molecule and atom assumed by science become a visible and living reality for the okkultist occultist or student of hidden laws. Upon this closer examination, he finds that they are much more complex in their structure than scientists have ever suspected. He also becomes capable of following all types of electrical, magnetic, and other etheric currents flows of subtle physical energy with the utmost attention and the liveliest interest. If some specialists in these branches of science were able to develop the power to see what they write about so easily, one could expect sublime and beautiful revelations.

This is one of the siddhis spiritual powers mentioned in Oriental books as awakening in those people who devote themselves to spiritual development. The name under which it is mentioned there may not be immediately recognizable. It is called the power to make oneself large or small at will. The reason for a description that seems to reverse the fact in such a strange way is that the method by which the feat is accomplished is exactly the one given in these old books. By a tem...