The are also planes corresponding to various religions past and 
présent, ail of which hâve their peculiar unity. 
ïi is of the utmost importance to tlie “Clairvoyant” or 
Hraveller in the fine body to be able to find bis way to 
any desired plane, and operate therein as itts rnler. 
The Neopliyte of A.*. A.’, is examined most strictly in 
tliis practice before he is passed to the degree of Zelaîor. 
In “Rising on the Planes” one must usuallv pass clear through 
the Astral to the Spiritual. Sonie will be unable to do this. The 
“fine body” which is good enough to subsist on lower planes, a 
shadow among shadows, will fail to penetrate the higher strata. 
It requires a great development of this body,and an intense infusion 
of the highest spiritual constituents of man, before he can pierce 
the veils. The constant practice of Magick is the best préparation 
possible. Even though the human consciousness fail to reach the 
goal, the consciousness of the fine body itself may do so, wherefore 
whoso travels in that body on a subséquent occasion may be found 
worthyj and its success will react favourably on the human 
consciousness, and increase its likelihood of success in its next 
magical operation. 
Similarly, the powers gained in this way will strengthen the 
magician in his meditation-practices. His Will becomes better able 
to assist the concentration, to destroy the mental images which 
disturb it, and to reject the lesser rewards of that practice which 
tempt, and too often stop the progress of, the mystic. 
Although it is said that the spiritual lies “beyond the astral”, 
this is theoreticalj 1 the advanced Magician will not find it to be so 
in practice. He will be able by suitable invocation to travel directly 
to any place desired. In Liber 418 an example of perfection is 
given. The Adept who explored these Aethyrs did not hâve to pass 
through and beyond the Universe, the whole of which yet lies 
within even the inmost (30th) Aethyr. He was able to summon 
the Aethyrs he wanted, and His chief difficulty was that sometimes 
I. The Hon. Bertrand Russell’s Princifia Mathemcitica may be said 
to “lie beyond” Colenso’s School Arithmetic; but one can take the 
former book from one’s shelves — as every one should — and read it 
without first going ail through the latter again.