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William Atkinson sometimes used the pen name Yogi Ramacharaka

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William Atkinson / Yogi Ramacharaka's

Life Beyond Death

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The Other Side - There is NO Death - The Planes Of Life - The Astral Plane - After Death - The Soul-Slumber - The Soul's Awakening - Astral Plane Geography - Primitive Soul State - Astral Religious Experience - Astral Heavens and Hells - Astral Self Expression - Astral Plane Occupation - Astral Companionship - Spirit Communication - Earth-Bound Souls - Astral Shells - The Second Soul-Sleep - Re-Birth - Beyond Reincarnation - Contents


degree of spiritual development, the "heaven worlds" which the religions of the race have sought to define according to their creeds and traditions. And, just as in the creeds of the race have been postulated the existence of "hells" to oppose the idea of "heaven," so in the Astral world, as might be expected, are to be found certain lower planes in which dwell the disembodied souls of persons of brutal natures and tendencies, in which the inevitable result of their earth-life is worked out. But these hells of the Astral are not eternal --- the disembodied soul in turn may work out into a better environment --- may be given "another chance." The Catholic conception of "purgatory" also has its Astral existence, in the form of certain sub-planes in which, as Hamlet's fathers ghost has said: "the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burned and purged away " --- but not in the fire of materiality, the fires of memory and imagination sufficing.

In short, on the great Astral plane are to be found conditions corresponding with nearly, if not all, of the conceptions formed by the mind of man in connection with the religions of all times and places. These conceptions

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