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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

But not in just the way these good folk usually imagine.

The dying person's Astral body gradually disengages itself from its physical counterpart. The "Astral body," as the student probably is aware, is an exact counterpart of the physical body, and during life the two dwell together in the majority of cases. The Astral body, however, leaves the physical body at the death of the latter, and forms the covering of the soul for some time. It is really a form of material substance, of a degree, however, so fine that it escapes the tests which reveal ordinary matter. Toward the last the "Astral body" actually slips from the physical body and is connected with it only by a slender thread or cord of Astral substance. Finally this thread snaps, and the "Astral body" floats away, inhabited by the soul which has left the physical body behind it. But this "Astral body" is no more the soul that was the physical body which it has just left. Both physical and "Astral bodies" are merely temporary coverings for the soul itself.

The soul leaving the physical body (in the "Astral body") is plunged into a deep sleep

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