and concerned only with what affects their outer physical life.

If you can appreciate that, then you can see how it would be the same with the astral after physical death, especially in the case of suicides or those who suffer violent death by murder or accident—they would know no more of their Indwelling Spirit than they did on the physical plane.

But you will notice that both of these authorities state that persons who die natural deaths remain but a few hours to several short years near the earth and its attractions—only as long as it takes for their physical bodies to dissolve and return to the “dust” from which they were formed.

Yes, mediums can draw such to their seances—but it is against the law as shown, and they do it only by stirring up “psychic storms,” for which they are held responsible and accountable and incur severe penalties which they will have to pay in future lives. In their ignorance they do not know this now, but many mediums, before they finish this life, are given a glimpse of what is in store for them.

After the soul is released from earth attractions in the short period mentioned, it sleeps for a greater or less period, according to its spiritual status, and then awakens on the plane of consciousness to which as a soul it has unfolded and therefore gravitated. In other words, even as it threw off its physical garment when it entered the sleep of “death” on that plane, so did it throw off its astral garment when entering the astral sleep; and it has now come to its pure soul consciousness—that in which Phylos was when he saw his astral “shell” speaking to Gwauxln.