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in the scale one rises above the material plane, the more real becomes the phenomena experienced. Therefore, it follows, that the experiences of the soul on the higher Astral Plane are not only not unreal in nature, but, by comparison, are far more real than the experiences of life on the material plans. As the writers just quoted have well said, Nature is not cheated on the Astral Plane --- but Nature herself manifests with more real effect on that plane than on the material plane. This is a hard saying for the uninitiated --- but the advanced soul becomes more and more convinced of its truth every succeeding hour of its experience.

It is a grievous error to regard the experiences of the soul in the heaven-world as little more than a "playing at reality," as some materialistic critics has termed it. One has but to turn to the experiences even of the earth-life to see that some of the world's best work is performed in the hours other than those employed in the actual fashioning of the things. There are times in the everyday life of the most active workers of the world which may be called "the ideal period" --- that is, the time in which the mind creates and