APPENDÏX III 
Notes on the nature of the “Astral Plane” \ 
i) What are “Astral” and “Spiritual” Beings? 
Man is one: it is a case of any consciousness assuming a sensible 
form. 
Microcosms and elementals. Maybe an elemental (e.g. a dog) 
has a cosmic conception in which he is a microcosm and man 
incomplète. No means of deciding same, as in case of kinds of 
space. 1 2 
Similarly, our gross matter may appear unreal to Beings clad in 
fine matter. Thus, science thinks vulgar perceptions “error”. We 
cannot perceive at ail except within our gamut; as, concentrated 
perfumes, which seem malodorous, and time-hidden facts, such as 
the vanes of a revolving fan, which flies can distinguish. 
Hence: no a friori reason to deny the existence of conscious 
intelligences with insensible bodies. Indeed we know of other 
orders of mind (flies, etc., possibly vegetables) thinking by means 
of non-human brain-structures. 
But the fundamental problem of Religion is this: Is there any 
praeter-human Intelligence, of the same order as our own, 
1. On considération these notes hâve been left as they were originally 
written. In An XVII, Sol in Virgo, Soror Rhodon, a probatîoner of 
A .*. A at that time in enjoyment of the privilège of sojourning in a 
certain secret Abbey of Thelema, asked Him to add to this book an out- 
line of the uranography of the Astral Planes, in less technical language than 
that of Liber 777. These notes were accordingly jotted down by Him. 
To elaborate them further would hâve been to make them disproportionate 
to the rest of this treatise. 
2. See Poincaré, passages a^oted infra. 
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