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person in the flesh showing them that he understands their real nature, and
bidding them begone. A bold front, and authoritative command, coupled
with words showing that their pretenses are “seen through” will always rout
these creatures, and send them back where they belong, crestfallen and
abashed.
Another favorite amusement of a certain class of this kind of low
disembodied souls, is that of appearing in Astral form, by taking advantage
of an Astral shell, in spiritualistic seances, or other gatherings in which the
psychic conditions are so sufficiently strong and favorable as to aid in the
materialization. In such cases these creatures often impudently strive to
impersonate other souls, either of some friend or relative of some one
present, or else of some historical character. Anyone who has ever attended
spiritualistic seances and seen “George Washington,” or “Julius Caesar”
appear and converse in the tone and words of the Bowery, of Whitechapel,
will readily understand the reason thereof. A knowledge of this fact will
serve to throw light on many perplexing phases of psychic phenomena.
These lower class souls, however, spend but a short term on the Astral
Plane, and very soon pass on to reincarnation in surroundings corresponding
with their natures, and to which they are attracted by spiritual laws. Their
whole attraction being toward the physical and the material, there is nothing
to hold them on the Astral Plane, and their abode there is of very brief
duration, in the majority of cases. And, yet, even in the very worst and most
brutal person, then is always a little of the good, and a spark of spiritual
glow, which brightens a little during each visit to the Astral Plane. And, in the
course of time, this little spark is sufficiently kindled to manifest a tiny blaze,
which lights the way of the poor soul and illumines the road toward higher
things. So that even among these poor entities there is at least a certain
degree of hope and promise. But the majority are degenerated and fallen
souls—descended from a once higher state—who, if they fail to profit by
the pains of the material life, are apt to tend still further downward until