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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

the blessed. It is difficult to shake off the habitual concepts of the race, and while we know better than to suppose that there is any special "up or down" in the Cosmos, still we have the old inherited race-habit of thought which causes us to think of the higher realms of the soul as "up" toward the stars. And, in a similar manner, the old term "Astral" has persisted in occult terminology.

Once more we must caution the student against confounding the idea of the Astral Plane with the idea of place or places. There is no such place as the Astral Plane. The Astral Plane is neither up nor down, neither north, south, east or west. It lies in no special direction --- and yet it lies in all directions. It is, first, last, and always, a state or condition and not a place. It is rather a phase or degree of vibration, rather than a portion of space. Its dimensions are those of Time --- not those of Space. When we use the words: "region;" `realm;" "higher or lower; " "above or below;" we employ them merely figuratively, just as we speak of "a high rate of vibration," or "a rate or vibration above that, etc." We find it necessary to repeat this caution, for the reason that the average

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