Dear Hans,

Last night I went to "The Alchemical Wedding" and the book openned
to the Chapter near the end - "The Need for Astral Purification." I am
not through the entire book by any means; but this chapter really spoke
to me and seemed a timely teaching which I need.
I am familiar with the words "astral body" from other teachings;
but it was never explained to me as clearly as it was in J. Van
Rijckenborgh's words. Other definitions I've read were fuzzy or
strange; but when JVR wrote of it, it struck me as something very, very
important and that purifying it was an antidote to emotional mood-
swings and other "storms" that arise on this Path.
I'll quote part of the chapter:
"Everything you are afraid of in life, all your sorrows, all your
troubles, all those terrific tensions, everything you do ot don't do,
is caused by the face that you have neither knowledge nor control of
your astral body."
Can you tell me more about how to control the astral body? And I am
open to anyone else on the List who would like to add something on this.

Cathy