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following ends, viz: (1) To warn others not to commit a like crime (2) to restrain the criminal from committing further crime, by confining him, or by imposing other deterring penalties (3) to reform the criminal by pointing out the advantages of right action and the disadvantage of wrong action. This being true even of finite human law, what should we expect of infinite cosmic law, in this particular? Surely, nothing more or less than a discipline which should encourage the unfoldment of the "good" qualities of the soul, and the smothering of the "evil" ones. And this is just what the advanced occultist does find to exist on the Astral Plane.

In this connection, it must be remembered that the discipline which would appeal most to the soul of lowly ideals, would be without avail in the case of the cultured soul --- and vice versa. In short, it may truthfully be said that the nature of the appropriate discipline in each individual case is well expressed by the ideal of heaven and hell entertained by the individual in earth-life, and which ideal, of course, remains with the soul after it has passed from the body to the Astral Plane. The mind of certain individuals is fully satisfied