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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8457340" data-attributes="member: 21169"><p>Another possible source for the silver cord are popular books about the occult such as Dennis Wheatley, <em>The Devil and All His Works</em> (1971):</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Finally he [the magician] conjures up an apparition of himself standing in front of himself. Actually this is what the Egyptians would have called his <em>ka, </em>his etheric double, which he has forced out of his body. His spirit then leaves his body and enters the <em>ka, </em>enabling it to ascend to the astral planes, but still attached to his physical body by what is called the 'silver cord', a transparent link which keeps it alive and enables him to return to it.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Occultists also hold that, in deep sleep, our spirits leave our bodies and, remaining attached to them only by what is termed the 'silver cord', ascend to the astral planes where they can communicate with other spirits whose bodies are also asleep, and those of others not in incarnation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 8457340, member: 21169"] Another possible source for the silver cord are popular books about the occult such as Dennis Wheatley, [I]The Devil and All His Works[/I] (1971): [indent]Finally he [the magician] conjures up an apparition of himself standing in front of himself. Actually this is what the Egyptians would have called his [I]ka, [/I]his etheric double, which he has forced out of his body. His spirit then leaves his body and enters the [I]ka, [/I]enabling it to ascend to the astral planes, but still attached to his physical body by what is called the 'silver cord', a transparent link which keeps it alive and enables him to return to it. Occultists also hold that, in deep sleep, our spirits leave our bodies and, remaining attached to them only by what is termed the 'silver cord', ascend to the astral planes where they can communicate with other spirits whose bodies are also asleep, and those of others not in incarnation.[/indent] [/QUOTE]
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