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The Life Beyond Death2202
Plane and consequently witness some very unpleasant sights in this region,
as might be expected.
The plane upon which the soul awakens is not a place, you remember,
but a state or condition of existence—a degree in the scale of the vibratory
energy of the spiritual world. As we have said, each soul awakens on the plane
representing its highest and best, upon which plane it dwells during its stay
on the Astral Plane, excepting where it develops itself and moves on to a still
higher plane, or, when, as alas! sometimes happens, it longs for the fleshpots
of Egypt and is attracted by memories of lower principles and descends to
a lower plane where it finds more congenial company and surroundings.
There is naturally a great difference between the various planes and subplanes
of the Astral Plane. Some are very little removed from the low scenes
of earth-life, while others express the highest conceptions of the human soul.
And each attracts to itself those who are fitted to dwell in its region—those
whose best and highest correspond with the new environment.
But the highest and best of the soul of low development is but very
little above the everyday thoughts and actions of the same soul in the
body. Persons of low spiritual development must needs go through many
periods of purification and development before they can escape the lure
and attraction of the material world. There are souls so earth-bound—so
hypnotized by the low pleasures of earth-life—that on “the other side”
they even refuse to forsake their Astral shells, and actually strive to abide
in the worn-out and disintegrating shells while they last, and maintain a
rapport condition with the scenes and associates of the former life. Others
find themselves on planes in which there is a conflict between the upward
attraction of the higher things of spiritual life and the lower things of the
material world, and they live a more or less unbalanced life in the Astral, at
least for a time, until one attraction proves the stronger and they rise and fall
in the spiritual scale, in accordance therewith. Others still find themselves
on a plane in which there is but little or no attraction from the material world,