Course XXXVIII - Teaching 1: Auric Radiation

The astral aura is reflection of the spiritual, mental and material being projected on the astral world. The aura is reflected on the seventh plane of the astral world, in co-relationship with akasic annals, which are reflected on the seventh plane of the mental world.
The movement of the Universe brings about creative vibration, and every creative vibration has a real result in the world of forms.
In the astral world, this result is radiation and changing color.
When a men who looks for psychic values, starts seeing a bluish mist around objects, he is seeing the astral aura of things.
The aura of an object or that of a thing is very different from the aura of an irrational being; and the aura of an irrational being is very different from that of a human being.
Object, thing, mineral and plant have no mind; they have an instinctive mind belonging to the group spirit of them; so, their radiation will be reduced to a tint between whitish and bluish and its extension will be very short.
An animal already has determined aura, with multiple Colors, because of its particular instinctive mind. The aura of a man, who has spirit, mind and matter, is perfect; and just it is different from that of angels and great beings because of its extension.
Christ’s aura would comprise the whole world.
From the antiquity, Virgin May’s images are surrounded by a bluish luminosity. Not only Christians encompassed their saints with light and adorned them with a halo, but also all other religions did. Buddha’s image is always surrounded with luminous rays; and Kali, goddess of Humanity, is placed in the center of a red sky.
The extension of an aura is according to its magnetic power, mental and spiritual, its diameter is from seven centimeters to seven hundred seventy seven kilometers, and more; and its multiple and changing colors are according to energetic and vibrational power of being. Its radial placement is according to its material value, from a similar form to the image represented to a perfect oval.
It is understandable that the particular aura of any thing or being may tend to form groups; this is not an astral law, but a Universal law; then any family, group, city, nation and continent have a characteristic aura.
An astral cell is the identity card of beings and things.
An American physician was able to verify that every being has a different and characteristic mental radiation, and when this radiation is grasped, it registers the identity of the individual.
A correct vision of the aura is desirable because promotes spiritual development.