Course XXXVIII - Teaching 16: Exercises to See the Aura

You can see a physical aura at a glance by observing closely a person on a dark background and, especially, at nightfall; then you see a little luminosity around that person. But usually you do not see an energetic aura, still charged with many material particles, although you can perceive it sharpening your sight a little.
Intermittently and disorderly, colors also can be seen by physical eyes; but our eyes cannot get a total vision of the aura without the hypophisial gland, or rather, they get it by means of clairvoyance. All people may aim at seeing partially the aura, although clairvoyants are exclusively obliged to its study. Certain exercises sharpen considerably the aura and enable to see it. He we describe several exercises for the student.
Years ago there were certain pictures in black and white of Saint Therese of Lisieux that, after you observed it closely, you could see her image reflected on a wall or clear place. This exercise is very useful to habituate your sight to fix what it sees. For instance, look at a window, and then close your eyes and try to see the window as if it were a photographic plate. After you make this exercise for a while, you will see your sight in two successive functions with your eyes closed; first it will show the negative and then the real image. Later, as you open your eyes, you will see white, bluish and green big spots, as if the sun blinded your eyes. If at once you observe a person standing before a dark cloth in the light, or a white cloth in the dark, you will notice around him several white little lights, like those of a cloudless sky closely observed.
But the most important thing is to see colors.
Then, after you habituated your sight to fix images, you much give it necessary rapidity to distinguish colors. It is a little inconvenient to practice the solar exercise for those who do not get used to do, that is, to distinguish colors, being concentrated with the eyes open in the sun, because there is another method to achieve it.
Take a light blue, square cardboard, determine exactly its center and mark on it a white point. Begin to stare at this point, counting very slowly from one to seventy seven; then close your eyes, count to ten, and open your eyes again. After a repetition of this practice, you will not see the cardboard light blue, but green. So, successively, you will see that a white cardboard is yellow; a yellow cardboard, orange; a black cardboard, grey, et cetera.
As soon as you are skilled in this exercise, you will distinguish very easily colors more or less thick around a person.
Other easier exercise: Put your left hand on little cardboards with the same Colors and make the above-mentioned exercise. Then put your hand on a black cloth in the light or on a white cloth in the dark; and you will see the aura of the hand.
The astral aura with its colors, radiation’s and movements, is the foundation of human life and only when science may enter there will be able to discover the root of evils that are overwhelming Humanity.