2. (Theosophy) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a
kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above
the tangible world in refinement; as, astral spirits;
astral bodies of persons; astral current.
Shines only with an astral luster. --I. Taylor.
Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. --Dryden.
{Astral lamp}, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow
is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped
reservoir in which the oil is contained.
{Astral spirits}, spirits formerly supposed to live in the
heavenly bodies or the a["e]rial regions, and represented
in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead,
or spirits originating in fire.