Astral vehicle
Vehicle of sensible and affective embodiment
The astral vehicle is the outer shell in this compact synthesis, representing the vehicle language associated with sensible embodiment and affective life. Plotinus does not provide this exact three-shell body layout, so the navel-centred envelope is an editorial mnemonic with wide uncertainty.
Point 1 of 4 in Neoplatonic Ochema — Soul Vehicles
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Plotinus, Enneads IV.3 (On the Problems of the Soul), especially IV.3.15–24 (primary_canonical)
Enneads IV.3.15–24 discusses the soul's vehicle in relation to embodiment and departure; the outer shell here is a cross-author editorial synthesis, not a Plotinian body diagram.