astral spirit

English

Noun

astral spirit (plural astral spirits)

1. One of numerous beings formerly believed to live among the heavenly bodies, variously seen as fallen angels or the spirits of dead men.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 572:

     At an abstruse philosophical level the possibility was kept alive by the occult theories of the Neoplatonists, Paracelsians and Behmenists, who believed in astral spirits which lingered on after the body had decayed.