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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga902
screen; the next size by the second; and so on until the tiny coal is reached.
Now, the large coal cannot get into the receptacle of the smaller sizes, but
the small sizes may easily pass through the screen and join the larger sizes,
if force be imparted to them. Just so in the Astral World, the soul with the
greatest amount of materiality, and gross nature, is stopped by the spiritual
screen of a certain plane, and cannot pass on to the higher ones, while other
souls have cast off some of the confining and retarding material sheaths,
and readily pass on to higher and finer planes. And it may be readily seen
that those souls which dwell on the higher planes are able to re-visit the
lower and grosser planes, while the souls on the grosser cannot penetrate
the higher boundries of their plane, being stopped by the spiritual screen.
The comparison is a crude one, but it almost exactly pictures the existing
conditions on the spiritual world.
Souls on the upper planes, may, and often do, journey to the lower planes
for the purpose of “visiting” the souls of friends who may be dwelling there,
and thus affording them comfort and consolation. In fact, the teaching is that
in many cases a highly developed soul visits souls on the lower planes in
whom it is interested, and actually imparts spiritual teaching and instruction
to those souls, so that they may be re-born into much better conditions
than would have been the case otherwise. All of the planes have Spiritual
Instructors from very high planes, who sacrifice their well-earned rest and
happiness on their own planes in order that they may work for the lessdeveloped
souls on the lower planes.
As we have said, the soul awakens on the plane to which it is suited. It finds
itself in the company of congenial souls, in whose company it is enabled to
pursue those things which were dear to its heart when alive. It may be able
to make considerable advancement during its sojourn in “heaven,” which
will result to its benefit when it is reborn on earth. There are countless subplanes,
adapted to the infinite requirements of the advancing souls in every
degree of development, and each soul finds an opportunity to develop
and enjoy to the fullest the highest of which it is capable, and to also perfect