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by Willam Walker Atkinson (Author), Yogi Ramacharaka (Author)
Chapters I 5 The Other Side II 14 There is NO Death III 23 The Planes Of Life IV 31 The Astral Plane V 39 After Death VI 47 The Soul-Slumber VII 56 The Soul's Awakening VIII 64 Astral Plane Geography IX 72 Primitive Soul State X 80 Astral Religious Experience XI 89 Astral Heavens and Hells XII 99 Astral Self Expression XIII 106 Astral Plane Occupation XIV 116 Astral Companionship XV 125 Spirit Communication XVI 134 Earth-Bound Souls XVII 143 Astral Shells XVIII 151 The Second Soul-Sleep XIX 160 Re-Birth XX 168 Beyond Reincarnation Excerpt: To those who have acquired that sense of consciousness of the illusion of death, these frightful emotions have faded away. To them, while they naturally feel the sorrow of temporary separation and the loss of companionship, the loved one is seen to have simply passed on to another phase of life, and nothing has been lost --- nothing has perished. There is a centuries'-old Hindu fable, in which is told the tale of a caterpillar, who feeling the approach of the langour which betokened the end of the crawling stage of existence and the beginning of the long sleep of the chrysalis stage, called his friends around him. "It is sad," he said, "to think that I must abandon my life, filled with so many bright promises of future achievement. Cut off by the grim reaper, in my very prime, I am an example of the heartlessness of Nature. Farewell, good friends, farewell forever. Tomorrow I shall be no more." And, accompanied by the tears and lamentations of the friends surrounded his death-bed, he passed away. An old caterpillar remarked sadly: "Our brother has left us. His fate is also ours. One by one we shall be cut down by the scythe of the destroyer, like unto the grass of the field. By faith we hope to rise again, but perhaps this is but the voice inspired by a vain hope. None of us knows anything positively of another life. Let us mourn the common fate of our race." Whereupon, sadly, they departed.
