CHAPTER V.

BODY AND ASTRAL BODY. The body and life principle. The mystery of life. Sleep and death are due to excess of life not bearable by the organism. The body an illusion. What is the cell. Life is universal. It is not the result of the organism. The Astral Body. What it is made of. Its powers and functions. As a model for the body. It is possessed by all kingdoms of nature. Its power to travel. The real sense organs are in the astral body. The place the astral body has at spiritualistic _séances_. The astral body accounts for telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and all such psychical phenomena. Pages 35 to 44.