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called, consists of cases in which the souls on the higher planes of the Astral
manifest their presence to persons in the flesh.
The soul on the higher Astral planes, dwells in the idealistic condition,
concerning itself not with the affairs of the world it has left behind it. It, of
course, maintains a sympathetic connection with those near and dear to
it by ties of love or friendship who have been left behind on the material
plane, but such sympathetic connection is entirely of a psychic or spiritual
nature, and has no connections with nearness in space, or physical proximity.
The ties and bonds between the disembodied soul and the soul still in the
flesh in earth-life may be thought of as spiritual filaments—something like
a transcendent form of telepathic rapport. When the disembodied soul is
thinking of the loved one on earth, the latter frequently experiences a feeling
akin to the physical nearness of the disembodied soul, but this merely arises
from the sensing of the mental and spiritual rapport of which we have just
spoken. In the same way, the disembodied soul experiences a sense of “call”
or message from the person in the flesh when the latter is thinking intently
of the former.
So far as this continuance of the feelings of love and affection between
the separated souls is concerned, nothing but good can be said, for the soul
in the flesh is comforted and strengthened by the feeling of rapport and
nearness of the disembodied soul on the Astral Plane; and the disembodied
soul experiences pleasure and joy just as it would on earth-life by the physical
nearness of the loved one. This relationship is a peculiarly sacred one, and
is enjoyed by many persons in the flesh, although they may have but little to
say regarding it to others who would not understand. Those who have had
this experience will recognize just what is meant by these words, when they
read them. Others, who have not had these experiences, can understand
them only by reference to the greatest feeling of soul-nearness they ever
have experienced in earth-life. It is, indeed, a communion of soul with soul,
almost approaching the perfection of soul-communion on the Astral Plane
in some of its aspects, although always leaving a something lacking from