Madame Blavatsky (1831-1891) is believed to have coined the terms "astral" and "new age". She used the term "astral" to refer to the double or phantom body. Astral was also used to describe the lowest of the seven principle planes above the physical. Blavatsky distinguished various parts of the human energy body as the linga sarira or astral double and the mayavi-rupa. She believed that linga sarira could be separated in projection and that the mayavi-rupa had the power to create apparitions of the dead. H.P. Blavatsky claimed to make regular mystic contact with the spirit teachers. She is known for her communications with the Masters Koot Hoomi and Morya. She affirmed that in her writings she was giving out the teachings of an adept brotherhood of spirit.
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1864-1935) inspired Religious Zionism with mystical writings.
Hermetic Kabbalah first became popular in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The ten Kabbalistic Sephiroth were injected with Greek and Egyptian deities, the Enochian system of angelic magic of John Dee, and Hindu and Buddhist concepts within a Rosicrucian-style order. Many of the Golden Dawn's rituals were published by the legendary occultist Aleister Crowley and were eventually compiled into book form by Israel Regardie. Crowley claimed to have mapped out the realms transcending the black cube of the mystic and crossing the abyss.
Franz Bardon (December 1, 1909 – July 10, 1958) was a Czech occultist best known for his three volumes on Hermetic magic; Initiation Into Hermetics, The Practice of Magical Evocation and The Key to the True Kabbalah. "Many consider him to have written the best training programs of any magician of the 20th century." Bardon's Ten Step Path of the Magician as detailed in Initiation into Hermetics lays out a path to complete the Emerald Tablet of Alchemy and to begin mystic projection to the realms by control of the Hermetic elements.
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was also a mystic and alchemist who wrote openly about his fascination and preoccupation with his clairvoyance of spirits and angels in his later years.
Alice Bailey (16th June, 1880 ‑ 15th December, 1949), author of 23 books on subjects such as the path of spiritual evolution, the Spiritual Hierarchy, spiritual meditation as a form of service for human beings, esoteric healing, cosmology of the realms, and the initatic process. Like Blavatsky, she claimed to have been gifted with spiritual instruction from Master Kuthumi. Later in her life she claimed to have been instructed by Master Djwhal Khul, known as The Tibetan.
Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990), was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is famous for his work "The Secret Teaching of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy."
Robert Monroe (1915–1995) was a metaphysical researcher and author of Journeys Out of the Body. This Virginia businessman claimed to have had his first out-of-body experience in 1958. He founded The Monroe Institute and developed a method he called Hemi-Sync to induce astral projection. Hemisync is a synchronization of the brainwaves of both of the brains' hemispheres or lobes.
Dr. James Hurtak wrote "The Book of Knowledge: The Keys to Enoch". He collaborated Jean-Luc Bozzoli a Visionary Artist on Merkabah Voyage of the Star Seed which includes a depiction of Shamballah.
Dr. Joshua David Stone authored many books on achieving mystic visions of initiation and ascension including Complete Ascension Manual..................from wikipedia
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