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Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism164
who, to use his expression, were “little better than the spiritualists of the old
world,” you sadly asked your guide to take you to the highest spheres. Your
guide smiled and said, “I will take you as far as you can go,” and then took
you to a plane which so fitted in with your desires, aspirations, tastes, and
development, that you begged him to allow you to remain there, instead of
taking you back to earth, as you felt that you had reached the “seventh heaven”
of the Astral World. He insisted upon your return, but before starting told
you that you were still in one of the sub-planes of the comparatively lower
planes. You seemed to doubt his words, and like the materialist asked to be
shown the greater things. He replied, “No, my son, you have progressed just
as far as your limitations will allow—you have reached that part of the ‘other
life’ which will be yours when you part with the body, unless you manage to
develop still more and thus pass into a higher grade—thus far you may go
but no farther. You have your limitations, just as I have mine, still farther on.
No soul may travel beyond its spiritual boundaries.”
“But,” continued your guide, “beyond your plane and beyond mine are
plane after plane, connected with our earth, the splendors of which man
cannot conceive. And there are likewise many planes around the other
planets of our chain—and there are millions of other worlds—and there
are chains of universes just as there are chains of planets—and then greater
groups of these chains—and so on greater and grander, beyond the
power of man to imagine—on and on and on and on, higher and higher to
inconceivable heights. An infinity of infinities of worlds are before us. Our
world and our planetary chain and our system of suns, and our systems of
solar systems, are but as grains of sand on the beach.”
“Then what am I—poor mortal thing—lost among all this inconceivable
greatness,” you cried. “You are the most precious thing—a living soul,” replied
your guide, “and if you were destroyed the whole system of universes would
crumble, for you are as necessary as the greatest part of it—it cannot do
without you—you cannot be lost or destroyed—you are part of it all, and
are eternal.