Word: astral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hailstones. The scientists, for the most part, kept mum. Some fumbled around with the idea of solar reflections, meteor crystals, ice crystals, hailstones. No astronomer had seen anything unusual. No weather plane or radar screen had picked up any astral bodies. Air Forces spokesmen denied that they had experimental planes resembling the saucers seen in the Northwest or anywhere else...
...apartment, nicknamed "The Lamasery," and decorated like a bad dream. Here, for two years, she picked the brains and reference libraries of her more scholarly associates to write her 1,200-page Isis Unveiled, which she claimed was dictated to her by the Masters of Wisdom via astral light and spirit guides. In 1878, Madame, the Colonel and two followers set out for mysterious India to search out "secret doctrines...
...Forbidden City of Lhasa and reached by a "gravity-neutralizing" elevator, where a twelve-man Supreme Council met in a white-metal hall to plan world strategy. "Archbishop" Doreal assured brotherhood members that he kept in constant touch with the council by sending his soul back to Tibet by "astral projection...
Under the leadership of Dr. Doreal and his astral remote control, Denver's Brotherhood of the White Temple prospered. By 1942 it had acquired an imposing downtown mansion. Here, pink-cheeked Prophet Doreal, garbed in a gold-trimmed robe of purple silk, addressed his followers from a throne that had once belonged to Mexico's Emperor Maximilian...
Outside the office of Secretary of State Byrnes, curious reporters made another try. Whimsically, Inverchapel explained that until he had presented his credentials to the President he was only "a ghost, an astral body." The solid ghost, with a red face and a big nose, then evaporated in the general direction of the solid and stately British Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...