At this stage of my vision I knew that if I looked around I would discover things which had been troubling me for a long time. Remember, I had left my physical body lying on the couch, but I was also in the astral world in an astral body. I could see both of these bodies and they were dressed alike. I was now seeing with the eyes of my Soul; the only difference I could distinguish between the two bodies was that they were in different dimensions of space; for I was now in the fourth dimension while my physical body was in the third dimension of space.

Recognition of this opened my vision to a more glorious sight; I looked across the chasm, and far away in the distance, I saw a luminous something that was vague and without form, but as my sight focused itself on it, it seemed to take shape and I then recognized it to be a woman. The shape itself was indefinite and not distinguishable as to sex, but the knowledge was with me that this form was symbolic of the Christ Consciousness. The intensity of my mind’s gaze upon this symbolic woman seemed to draw her closer to me; I looked in wonder and amazement at her beauty.

This spiritual, or solar body, sometimes called the fire-body, is a body of Brilliance, of Light and of Love. It glows and shines like jewels, with all the colors of the rainbow; only these colors are so beautiful that the conscious mind receives only their reflection, which is dulled and blurred because of its imperfect understanding. Luminous like the sun with a golden radiance, and scintillating with electrical vibration incredible velocity it was surrounded with an aureole of a filmy violet opalescence. The whole picture sparkled and threw out rays like the facets of a diamond, and the sparkle of these rays made them appear to me like jewels sparkling in a golden sunlight.

This was the most wonderful sight my eyes had ever looked upon, and I wondered within myself who this woman might be. The answer came back on the wings of thought, “IT IS YOU, YOURSELF. It is your Spiritual Body.” But, I asked, “Why all the jewels? I’m not rich.” And instantly this answer flashed into my mind. “Those are the spiritual truths which you have adorned your consciousness. Then I seemed to know in my Soul mind that it would be impossible for one to clothe oneself like that in the short span of forty years of earth-life, and instantly I realized that the jewels symbolized the spiritual truths learned and become a part of the soul in many incarnations. Then suddenly