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Chapter VIII: Astral Plane Geography2209
There are as many different kind of regions on the Astral Plane as there
are on the material plane, and each plane is inhabited by exactly the class
of souls which it might be expected to attract. There are to be found the
abodes of degraded souls, so steeped in materiality and animality, that
they would be veritable hell to a soul of higher attainment. It may well be
imagined that the soul of higher impulses has no desire to travel into these
depths of the Astral, unless, indeed it be some very highly developed soul
which is willing to “descend into hell” in order to minister to the needs of
some lower soul which is striving to emerge from the slough of despond
into which its earth life has thrown it. Such ministering spirits do exist, and
perform this work for their lower brothers and sisters. But, as a rule, the
disembodied souls prefers to work out its own evolution on its own plane,
that it may ascend to the higher grades of spiritual opportunity in its next
incarnation, and that it may acquire spiritual knowledge during its sojourn
on its particular plane of the Astral.