(please note i am not saying this is THE prime matter. it's just something to consider)
I've been wanting to collect some accounts of "astral fluid", ectoplasm
and clouds, mists or veils that are produced from the ether by a medium
for consideration. In the literature, this fluid often emanates from the eyes,
and the eyes have a relation to:
"greek Drakon, also etymologically related to the eye and seeing - derkomai
the dragon's eye or glance is petrifying - turns to stone. same as Medusa serpents.
Hebrew - ayin = eye and/or spring/fountain.There are plenty of alchemical references to fountains and springs.
The aries glyph is not only the horns of a ram, but a fountain erupting."
Aries, the house of the ram, is ruled by mars/iron, aka sideros, which also means stars/astral.
Here is a very interesting account where astral fluid is formed and coagulated into
a stone. The words "primary matter" are used. The stone is then placed on the
table and runs/flows like mercury (their words!).
http://books.google.com/books?id=HGk...20eyes&f=false
Here is an interesting entry in the Encyclopedic Theosophical glossary:
Athanor [probably from Arabic] A self-feeding furnace of the alchemists, and also a transmitting agent formed of astral substance or fluid. "Electricity, the one Life at the upper rung of Being, and Astral Fluid, the Athanor of the Alchemists, at its lowest; God and devil, good and evil" (SD 1:81).
(I'm sure SD refers to Blavatsky's book "Secret Doctrine")
Another:
Aura
An extremely subtle and therefore invisible essence or fluid that emanates from and surrounds not only human beings and beasts, but as a matter of fact plants and minerals also. It is one of the aspects of the auric egg and therefore the human aura partakes of all the qualities that the human constitution contains. It is at once magneto-mental and electrovital, suffused with the energies of mind and spirit -- the quality in each case coming from an organ or center of the human constitution whence it flows. It is the source of the sympathies and antipathies that we are conscious of. Under the control of the human will it can be both life-giving and healing, or death-dealing; and when the human will is passive the aura has an action of its own which is automatic and follows the laws of character and latent impulses of the being from whom it emanates. Sensitives have frequently described it in more or less vague terms as a light flowing from the eyes or the heart or the tips of the fingers or from other parts of the body. Sometimes this fluid, instead of being colorless light, manifests itself by flashing and scintillating changes of color -- the color or colors in each case depending not only upon the varying moods of the human individual, but also possessing a background equivalent to the character or nature of the individual. Animals are extremely sensitive to auras, and some beasts even descry the human being surrounded with the aura as with a cloud or veil. In fact, everything has its aura surrounding it with a light or play of color, and especially is this the case with so-called animated beings.
Here you can view many pics of ectoplasm:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...ed=0CBUQsAQwAA
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