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Chapter XIV: Astral Companionship
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here is a question which ever comes to the mind of those who indulge in
speculations regarding “the other side”—that question which is voiced
in the words of the familiar old hymn: “Shall we know each other there’”
This query is rooted in the very heart of human love and affection. Heaven,
even if it furnished every other joy and satisfaction, would not be heaven to
the average person if it did not also furnish companionship and association
with those loved in earth life. The soul instinctively craves for the society
not only of those close to it by ties of the love of man and woman, but
also of those to which it is bound by the relationship of parent and child;
brother and sister; friend and friend. Without this assurance of continued
companionship and association, heaven would seem a very bleak and cold
place to the average human soul.
We are glad that the Yogi teachers have been very explicit and plain upon
this subject, and that their students may find that this hope and desire of the
human heart has a full and rich realization in the facts of life on the Astral
Plane. Not only do we “know each other there,” but we are naturally bound
by Astral bonds of attraction to those whom we love; and to those with
whom we are in sympathy, even though we had never known them in earth
life. More than this, there is, on the Astral Plane, the possibility of a far nearer