Question: There is a point of view in literature, that one necessarily goes through the stage of astral plane. Is it so?

Answer: Yes, it is so. But one may make a big stride further from it very soon or may remain on it for a long time. It depends on the depth of one’s intellectual understanding of the spiritual Path and on the characteristics of one’s magnetic center. Therefore, it is to these aspects rather than to students’ success in psychoenergetic work that the instructor has to pay attention, first of all.

I want to underline once again that the characteristic feature of pagan occult schools is exploration of the astral plane; for this purpose they even practice special methods of developing the astral “body”.