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The Life Beyond Death2232
But each for the joy of the working,
And each in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees it
For the God of Things as They are.”
The same thing is true of the seeker after knowledge—the man to
whom the exercise of the intellect is the greatest joy. Such a one finds the
Books of Knowledge opened for many pages beyond those at which he
was compelled to pause in earth-life. The philosopher, the scientist, the
metaphysician, the naturalist—these find full exercise for their faculties
on the Astral Plane. The library of the Cosmos—the laboratories of the
universe—are at their disposal, and they are made welcome there. They
find their heart’s desire fulfilled in the opportunities afforded them on
the Astral Plane. And, they go back to earth-life, when their time comes
for reincarnation, with stimulated intellect and increased reasoning power.
What they have thus learned appears in the next life as “intuition.”
It is a fact well known to the advanced occultist that great inventors, like
Edison—great philosophers like Hegel, or Herbert Spencer—great scientists
like Darwin or Huxley—who seemingly manifest intuitive knowledge of their
subjects, are but manifesting on the material plane that which they have
already acquired on the Astral as the fruition of desires and attempts made
in previous incarnations. It is the common experience of such geniuses, as
related in their memoirs, that the majority of their greatest discoveries have
come to them suddenly as if from a clear sky. But it is a rule of Nature that
there is no blossom or fruit without the preceding seed—and this is true on
the mental as well as on the physical plane. There is always a “cause” for the
“effect,” in these cases.
The struggling genius—nay, more, the one who feels that he or she could
be a genius if that which is within could only be expressed—these souls
will have their chance in the Astral, and if the seed be well planted in the
rich soil, of the soul, then in the next incarnation will the blossom and fruit