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Chapter XIV: Astral Companionship2245
mere nearness in space or place—and yet even this but faintly indicates the
ideal condition of the Astral Life.
It may be questioned by some, how souls enjoying this companionship,
if they happen to dwell on different planes of Astral being, can be in the
same state or condition in which the experience is rendered possible. The
answer is simple to one who is familiar with the highest occult truths. It is this:
the soul on the higher planes feels the sympathetic attraction of the soul on
the lower plane, and, answering it, establishes a psychic connection (akin
to a highly exalted form of telepathy) between the two, and thus renders
possible the experience of the closest mental and spiritual relationship and
companionship, which experience far transcends the companionship of two
souls in the flesh. Moreover, as we have explained in a previous chapter, the
soul on the higher plane may actually visit, with all of its soul-being, another
soul on a plane lower than itself. In this, and other ways, companionship
between disembodied souls of the Astral Plane is manifested. There is no
“lonesomeness,” or loneliness for souls who crave sympathy on the Astral.
There is nothing that is high, and ennobling, in earth-life, that has not its
magnified correspondence on the Astral Plane—only the dross being left
behind.
There is a natural law which operates on the Astral Plane, as well as upon
the material plane, and this law regulates and controls everything on that
plane. The disembodied soul does not part with Nature, when it leaves the
earth-life—but, rather it rises to a plane of Nature which is fuller, richer, and
sweeter in every way than the best of which the earth-dwelling soul dreams.
The dross of materiality burned away by the Astral vibrations, the soul
blossoms and bears spiritual fruit in the new life. There is one word, which,
above all others, expresses the spirit-meaning, and purpose of the higher
planes—and the phenomena thereof—that word is love! And that Love is
the “Perfect Love which casteth out all Fear”—and its blossom is Joy—and
its fruit is Peace!