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Across various literary sources, the term “causal” is employed in multifaceted ways—from denoting metaphysical states to describing cause‐and‐effect dynamics in empirical phenomena. In spiritual and mystical texts, such as Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]), “causal” often refers to an ethereal realm or body where desires, karma, and cosmic intricacies are processed, signifying a subtler dimension of existence beyond the mere physical. In the realm of psychology and criminal investigation, authors like Hans Gross and Freud use “causal” to describe chains of influence or underlying conditions that explain behavior and therapeutic outcomes ([18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28]), illustrating the concept as a mechanism that links events and conditions coherently. Meanwhile, in philosophical and grammatical contexts, thinkers such as Kant, Durkheim, Schopenhauer, and even guides on Latin translation and grammar ([29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37]) deploy “causal” to denote effective, productive power or to denote clauses that indicate cause and effect. This varied usage highlights how “causal” bridges empirical analysis with metaphysical speculation, functioning simultaneously as a technical term in logic and science and as a symbol of deeper, inner processes of creation and transformation.
  1. Causal beings work out their desires by materializing them instantly.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  2. "The causal world is indescribably subtle," he replied.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  3. By deeper ecstasies the freed soul then withdraws itself from the little causal body and puts on the vastness of the causal cosmos.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  4. My work is with those astral beings who are preparing to enter the causal world.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  5. "Many beings remain for thousands of years in the causal cosmos.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  6. Such beings have only astral and causal karma to work out.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  7. A dreamer is contacting his astral and not his causal body; his sleep is not fully refreshing.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  8. Many of these beings nevertheless feel slightly nervous at the thought of dropping their astral form for the subtler causal one.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  9. " I asked my divine guru to shed further light on the high and mysterious causal world.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  10. Causal beings see the difference between their bodies and thoughts to be merely ideas.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  11. Causal beings therefore consider the enjoyment of physical sensations or astral delights as gross and suffocating to the soul's fine sensibilities.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  12. 43-8 Those who find themselves covered only by the delicate veil of the causal body can bring universes into manifestation even as the Creator.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  13. "The undeveloped man must undergo countless earthly and astral and causal incarnations in order to emerge from his three bodies.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  14. "Both death and rebirth in the causal world are in thought.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  15. "Whatever a human being can do in fancy, a causal being can do in reality.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  16. "Causal desires are fulfilled by perception only.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  17. The compulsion or temptation of sensory experience is more powerful than the desire-force connected with astral attachments or causal perceptions.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  18. In certain directions our task is next to the historians’ who aim to bring men and events into definite causal sequence.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  19. There are other forms of illness, however, in which our therapeutic procedure never is successful, even though the causal conditions are similar.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  20. With regard to them, it is supposed that the understanding, by its own activity, without the help of experience can discover causal connections.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  21. Is our psychoanalytical therapy causal or not?
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  22. This would be causal therapy in its true sense and our analysis would have furnished the indispensable preparatory work of reconnaissance.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  23. As a rule it is converted into a sensation of suffering and fused with other causal elements of the disease.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  24. He will say that this is a case of slight functional disturbance, of an inaccurate psychic act whose causal factors can be outlined.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  25. Without this the causal relations as they are arrived at by the other can never be reached, or different results most likely ensue.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  26. I shall digress for a moment to ask whether you know what is meant by a causal therapy?
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  27. In so far as analytical therapy does not concern itself immediately with the removal of symptoms, it may be termed causal.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  28. The scientific and practical problem is as to whether there exists an actual causal nexus.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  29. This sort of causal combination we call that of effective causes ( nexus effectivus ).
    — from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
  30. Adject. causal clause.—Holden.
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  31. The first thing which is implied in the notion of the causal relation is the idea of efficacy, of productive power, of active force.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
  32. si-st-o is only a form of sto strengthened by reduplication (cf. ἵστημι ) with a causal force.
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  33. CAUSAL CLAUSES 398.
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  34. For as and since in causal clauses, see § 398 ; for while in concessive clauses, see § 399 .
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  35. Causal clauses are introduced by the subordinate conjunctions because , since , as , inasmuch as , and sometimes that .
    — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
  36. Such a causal connexion we call that of final causes ( nexus finalis ).
    — from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
  37. 12 causal: S. Ahala Sp.
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

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