a LibriVox recording 


read by Phil Benson 


C. W. LEADBEATER 

The Astral Plane 

Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena 


The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, 
Inhabitants and Phenomena 

C. W. Leadbeater (1854 - 1934) 

As sceptics dismissed other-worldly phenomena as the 
stuff of legend, trickery or delusion, nineteenth-century 
'occult science' set out to explain them scientifically. 
Here, C. W. Leadbeater maps out the scenery and 
inhabitants of the astral plane, accounting along the 
way for phenomena such as the journey of the soul after 
death, magic and sorcery, vampires and werewolves, 
pixies, gnomes and fairies, ghosts and shades, and communication with the 
departed in the seance room. A leading figure in the Theosophical 
movement after the death of Madame Blavatsky, Leadbeater was 
reincarnated in Stockport, Cheshire, (now part of Greater Manchester) after 
an unusually long spell of 2,300 years in the heaven-world. Ordained as an 
Anglican clergyman, he became a prolific author on theosophical topics. His 
theosophical studies took him to Ceylon and Australia, where he was the 
spiritual leader of the Manor commune in Sydney, which still exists today. 



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Running time 03:29:45 
Read by Phil Benson 

Cover design by Katliryn Delaney 

NASA photograph of the Orion nebula, 
Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1894