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The Life Beyond Death2214
occultist knows that these reports are all truthful, so far as they go, and have
been based on actual physic experiences of certain members of the tribe of
people. Although they differ greatly in details, they agree in fundamentals,
and are all based on truth. A little consideration of the nature of the Astral
phenomena, as we have stated it, will explain the matter.
These primitive souls spend a brief existence on the lower Astral Planes
to which they have been attached, and develop newer and fuller ideals and
desires, which will blossom and bear fruit in their next earth-incarnation.
Moreover, they wear-out and outlive certain of their lower desires and
ideals, and in this way, make way for the spiritual evolution which is ever
seeking to unfold on the Astral; serves to unfold these souls a little—only
a very little, it is true—but every little is a gain. Moreover, as the Astral Life
(and usually the earth-life) of the savage is comparatively brief, these souls
really make considerable progress in a given space of time—they may live
a hundred earth-lives, and the corresponding Astral Life, while a more
highly developed soul is earning its spiritual rest on the higher Astral planes.
Compensation and equity is found here, as elsewhere, in the life-processes.
One of the great gains of the savage soul on the Astral Plane is that of
the development of comradeship and fellow-feeling. This is caused by the
reunion of the soul with its friends of earth-life, and the joy felt thereat.
Moreover, the animosities of earth-life are softened by the nature of the life
on the Astral, for with a bounteous supply of all that the savage soul craves,
there is far less opportunity for jealousy and rivalry than on earth. And,
accordingly, hate is stilled, and comradeship and elementary friendship (the
buddings of universal love) are encouraged. Each trip to the Astral Plane
burns out a little more of the lower nature, and awakens a little more of the
higher—otherwise, there would be no progress for the race in repeated
lives. Each soul, no matter how undeveloped it may be, learns a little more of
that feeling of unity and oneness, each time it is relieved of the stress of the
physical body. So that, we may see, that even in these crude “heavens” of