The Astral Body and Related Phenomena by Arthur E. Powell, first published in London in 1927 by Theosophical Publishing House under the title The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena, is one of the most celebrated works of 20th-century Theosophical literature.Powell, a former British Army officer and scholar of the Theosophical Society, accomplished a valuable work: he systematically collected and organized the teachings scattered throughout the works of Annie Besant and Charles ...

This book is the third of the series dealing with man's bodies, its two predecessors having been The Etheric Body and The Astral Body. In all three, identically the same method has been followed: some forty volumes, mostly from the pens of Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, recognised to-day as the authorities par excellence on the Ancient wisdom in its guise of modern Theosophy, have been carefully searched for data connected with the mental body; those data have been classified, arranged...