According to this tradition, the Christ within is regarded as the true Saviour who needs to be born within each individual in order to evolve toward the future Sixth Epoch in the Earth's etheric plane, that is, toward the " new heavens and a new earth ": the New Galilee.

Evidence for objective reality of projection on to the etheric plane ( a near-copy of the physical plane ) is sometimes suggested when people, such as patients during surgery, describe OBEs in which they see or hear events or objects outside their sensory range ( for instance, Pam Reynolds reported experiencing an OBE during brain surgery and described a surgical instrument she had not seen previously, as well as conversation that occurred while she was under anethesia ).

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i. e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers, Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " at the ninth level of initiation who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

Powell gives a figure of 16, 500, 000 years ago ) from the etheric plane of the planet Venus ( According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant he came only 2, 500, 000 years ago ).

The beings living on the etheric plane of Venus are said to be hundreds of millions of years ahead of us in their spiritual evolution.

According to Theosophy, once Sanat Kumara arrived here, he directed the construction of the city of Shamballa on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert to serve as his headquarters.

She also serves at The Rose Temple, located on the etheric plane above New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Although the Lady Master Nada's home residence ( called in the Ascended Master Teachings her " retreat ") is underground on the etheric plane on the Arabian peninsula, according to the Ascended Master Teachings, she teleports to Shamballa every workday to her day job on the Karmic Board, hearing the cases of those souls who are on the third ray.

The Karmic Board decides when souls that are between lives are to reincarnate again ( if a disembodied soul desires to reincarnate somewhere or somewhen else than where they have been assigned, they must file an appeal with the Karmic Board — each person has to file an appeal to the member of the board that handles the appeals for their soul ray ); and the one Alice A. Bailey calls the Custodian of the Hall of Records ( called the Keeper of the Scrolls in the Ascended Master Teachings ), the being who is in charge of the Hall of Records, an enormous administrative complex near Sanat Kumara ’ s palace in the etheric city of Shamballa — this is where the Recording Angels and those souls who are between incarnations who volunteer to give up their time in Summerland and help perform this work make visual records ( utilizing the most advanced supercomputers on the etheric plane of Earth ) of everything that happens in everyone ’ s lives on Earth.

Omri-Tas rules a planet on the etheric plane called the Violet Planet, which is apparently several dozen to several hundred light years from Earth.

Benjamin Creme subscribes to the modern esoteric view that Nordic aliens ( like those mentioned by George Adamski – Creme accepts Adamski's sightings as valid ) pilot flying saucers from the civilization on Venus that is thought to exist on the etheric plane ( Esotericists believe that since the Venusians ' civilization is on the etheric plane, the planet's heat doesn't affect them ) and are capable of stepping down the level of vibration of themselves and their craft to the slower level of vibration of the atoms of the physical plane.

Since Shamballa is envisioned as a floating city about five miles above the surface of the earth on the etheric plane, there are also numerous entrances in the basements of the buildings, where flying saucers can enter from the bottom of the city and park in spacious flying saucer parking garages provided in the basement levels of the buildings.

Since, according to Creme, the Venusians flying saucer designers outsource the actual construction of their flying saucers to the Martians ( who are said to dwell on the etheric plane of Mars ), whom he describes as the " master engineers of the solar system ", Shamballa provides a convenient neutral ground where the Venusians and the Martians can meet to evaluate new flying saucer designs and negotiate flying saucer construction contracts between themselves.

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy ( specifically, the writings of Charles W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers ), Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " of the Ninth Initiation ( the highest Initiation possible on planet Earth ) who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

Neo-Theosophy, as developed by Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, and later Alice Bailey, makes the astral finer than the etheric plane but " denser " than the mental plane.

In order to create a unified view of seven bodies and remove earlier Sanskrit terms, an etheric plane was introduced and the term " astral body " was used to replace the former kamarupa-sometimes termed the body of emotion, illusion or desire.

* The Astral plane as well as other planes of existence such as the etheric are featured prominently in the Deverry Cycle of fantasy books by Katharine Kerr.

Theoretically, the existence of Shamaballa is scientifically verifiable because, according to Alice A. Bailey, those who are adept at white magic can travel there in their etheric body by the technique of etheric projection and see it for themselves.

Some clairvoyants and occultists have produced drawings and paintings that record their perceptions of the etheric body ; see Leadbeater's Man Visible and Invisible for one example.

In Theosophy, Steiner suggested that human beings unite a physical body of a nature common to ( and that ultimately returns to ) the inorganic world ; a life body ( also called the etheric body ), in common with all living creatures ( including plants ); a bearer of sentience or consciousness ( also called the astral body ), in common with all animals ; and the ego, which anchors the faculty of self-awareness unique to human beings.

The psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano ( 1938 ) had also supported a similar view describing the phenomena of the OBE experience in terms of bilocation in which an " etheric body " can release itself from the physical body in rare circumstances.

It was reported on 22 March 1896 that Mrs Bloomfield Moore had arranged with Professor Wentworth Lascelles Scott of London to investigate Keely's claims of etheric force and also to examine his other inventions.

Theosophy also teaches that when the physical body dies the etheric body is left behind and the soul forms into an astral body on the astral plane.

The etheric body can be characterised as the life force also present in the plant kingdom.

Associated there is also a type of spiritual sight, that man will eventually develop, called etheric vision.

It also refers to an extended synthesis of this thread and a second ( the consciousness thread, passing from the soul to the physical body ) that connects the physical body to the etheric body, onwards to the astral body and finally to the mental body.

** Etheric Region: related to the etheric body ; home of the Angels ( seen as being one step beyond the human stage, as humans are a degree in advance of the animal evolution ), astrologically associated to Aquarius ; Akashic records in the reflecting ether ( pictures at least several hundred years back or much more in some cases, almost as the pictures on a screen, scene shifts backward ).

The Second Coming or Advent of the Christ is not in a physical body, but in the new soul body of each individual in the etheric region of the planet where man " shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

Muldoon ( 1936 ) embraced the concept of an etheric body to explain OBEs.

Some experients say they visit different times and / or places: " etheric ", then, is used to represent the sense of being " out of the body " in the physical world, whereas " astral " may connote some alteration in time-perception.

This etheric body is usually, though not always, invisible but is often perceived by the experient as connected to the physical body during separation by a “ silver cord ”.

The Linga Sharira is the invisible double of the human body, elsewhere referred to as the etheric body, doppelgänger or bioplasmic body and serves as a model or matrix of the physical body, which conforms to the shape, appearance and condition of his " double ".

The ritual is said to take place in a ravine in southern Tibet ( the Frontispiece of Leadbeater's book The Masters and the Path has a picture of the ritual taking place ) and, it is stated by Leadbeater, can be viewed by in the etheric body or in the physical body by those who have etheric sight.

The athame's primary use is to channel and direct psychic energy, generally conceived as etheric fire.

In most traditional covens, the athame is associated with the magical element of fire, so the circle is considered to be cast in etheric fire.

In Locale 1 experiences the environment is largely consistent with reality ; other common labels for this form are etheric, ethereal or RTZ ( Real Time Zone ) projections.

Leadbeater claimed that by extending an " etheric tube " from the third eye, it is possible to develop microscopic and telescopic vision.

Elsewhere this latter is termed " etheric ", while " astral " denotes an experience of dream-symbols, archetypes, memories, spiritual beings and visionary landscapes.

Designed after the pattern of a rose, with each " petal " being a room, this Retreat is the etheric counterpart of the " Temple of Love " on Atlantis where Nada once served as a priestess.

Though this usage continues to be widespread, the term, " etheric travel ", used by some later Theosophists, offers a useful distinction.

The English term " etheric " in this context seems to derive from the Theosophical writings of Madame Blavatsky, but its use was formalised by C. W.

Linga sarira is a Sanskrit term for the invisible double of the human body, the etheric body or etheric double ( or astral body in some Theosophical concepts ).

Some New Age sources use the term as a generic term to designate any being regarded as being composed of etheric matter -- elementals, nature spirits ( including the various types of nature spirits such as fairies, ondines, etc .).