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on the Astral; serves to unfold these souls a little --- only a very little, it is true --- but every little is a gain. Moreover, as the Astral Life (and usually the earth-life) of the savage is comparatively brief, these souls really make considerable progress in a given space of time --- they may live a hundred earthlives, and the corresponding Astral Life, while a more highly developed soul is earning its spiritual rest on the higher Astral planes. Compensation and equity is found here, as elsewhere, in the life-processes.

One of the great gains of the savage soul on the Astral Plane is that of the development of comradeship and fellow-feeling. This is caused by the reunion of the soul with its friends of earth-life, and the joy felt thereat. Moreover, the animosities of earthlife are softened by the nature of the life on the Astral, for with a bounteous supply of all that the savage soul craves, there is far less opportunity for jealousy and rivalry than on earth. And, accordingly, hate is stilled, and comradeship and elementary friendship (the buddings of universal love) are encouraged. Each trip to the Astral Plane burns out a little more of the lower nature, and