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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8695001" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>I understand the astral plane to be strictly immaterial.</p><p></p><p>It is impossible for matter to exist in the astral plane, in the same way that it is impossible for matter to exist in a dream. To dream about matter is a purely symbolic thought construct.</p><p></p><p>Divine thought created the material world. Then the astral constructs are a kind of architectural blueprint for the material world. The aster is a world of information.</p><p></p><p>Angels are thought constructs − information patterns, sometimes called intellects − by definition without flesh and blood.</p><p></p><p>An astral body is a virtual body, an information construct. One can use this information to translate and inform a material form, thus materializing a body of matter in the material plane.</p><p></p><p>In the same way that angels within the aster are immaterial, githyanki within the aster are psionic thoughts and memories that are immaterial.</p><p></p><p>When astral angels physicalize into the material plane they normally do so via conjuration to form a temporary physical avatar, namely a virtual body made out of physical force. However it is also possible for an angel to materialize into the material plane as a body of flesh and blood. Angels rarely become flesh and blood because of the limitations of matter and the resulting loss of angelic information.</p><p></p><p>Such hyperjump space travel is actually dematerializing here and rematerializing there. It is a method of teleportation, but the extreme distances prolong consciousness during the process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8695001, member: 58172"] I understand the astral plane to be strictly immaterial. It is impossible for matter to exist in the astral plane, in the same way that it is impossible for matter to exist in a dream. To dream about matter is a purely symbolic thought construct. Divine thought created the material world. Then the astral constructs are a kind of architectural blueprint for the material world. The aster is a world of information. Angels are thought constructs − information patterns, sometimes called intellects − by definition without flesh and blood. An astral body is a virtual body, an information construct. One can use this information to translate and inform a material form, thus materializing a body of matter in the material plane. In the same way that angels within the aster are immaterial, githyanki within the aster are psionic thoughts and memories that are immaterial. When astral angels physicalize into the material plane they normally do so via conjuration to form a temporary physical avatar, namely a virtual body made out of physical force. However it is also possible for an angel to materialize into the material plane as a body of flesh and blood. Angels rarely become flesh and blood because of the limitations of matter and the resulting loss of angelic information. Such hyperjump space travel is actually dematerializing here and rematerializing there. It is a method of teleportation, but the extreme distances prolong consciousness during the process. [/QUOTE]
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