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Chapter XVIII: The Second Soul-Sleep2265
Chapter XVIII: The Second Soul-Sleep
One of the many facts which are impressed upon the minds of the
student of the occult is that which illustrates the principle that Nature
is consistent and uniform in her methods. On the various planes of being,
Nature has a few fundamental methods or habits of manifestation which
the student soon learns to look for in his investigations, and which he always
finds if he continues his search sufficiently long and with sufficient care and
watchfulness.
One of these constant methods of habits of Nature is that by which she
always interposes a period of rest, pause, sleep, or recuperation between
the end of one period of activity and the beginning of another. On the
physical plane we have many instances of this, from the momentary pause
of the pendulum between its forward and backward swing; the pause
between the inhalation and exhalation of the breath; the sleep between
the close of one day and the beginning of another; the period of rest of the
unborn child between its formative period and its birth into the world, etc.
In the Astral world we find the same phenomenon in the soul-slumber
which occurs between that which we call Death and the beginning of the
new existence on the Astral Plane. And, reasoning from analogy, we might
naturally expect to be informed that a similar phase or period exists between