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is merely the reproduction of the mental creation. This, being remembered,
which shall we consider the real creation, the mental or the material?
The soul, in its activities on the higher Astral Plane, performs a work similar
to that of the mind of the inventor, designer, builder, when it fashions and
designs that which will afterward be objectified in material form. It may be
called the period or stage of forming the model, or pattern, or mould, which
shall afterward serve for the material manifestation. Ignorance, alone, can
conceive of such a stage of existence as being a “mere dream.” Verily, the
scales of matter serve to blind the eyes of man, so that he sees the real as the
unreal—the unreal as the real. The higher in the scale of existence the soul
rises, the more real are its experiences—the nearer it approaches matter,
in its descent of the scale, the more unreal are its experiences. Ah, Maya!
Maya! thou mother of illusion, when shall we learn to rise above thy spell!
Those who play in the clay, are besmeared by it, and can see nothing finer
and higher than its sticky substance.