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It is on these planes that" spirits ” call into temporary existence their houses, scho’ols, and cities, for these objects are often real*enough for the time, though to a clearer sight tjiey may sometimes be pitiably unlike what their delighteci creators suppose them to be. Nevertheless, many of the imaginations which take form there are of real though temporary beauty, and a visitor who knew of nothing higher might wander contentedly enough there amortg forests and mountains, lovely lakes and pleasant * flower-gardens, which are at any rate much superior to anything in the physical world; or he might even construct such surroundings to suit his own fancies. The details of the differences between these three higher subplanes will perhaps be more readily explicable when we come to deal with their human inhabitants.
An account of the scenery of the astral plane would be incomplete without some mention of what have often, though mistakenly, been called the Records of the Astral Light. These records (which are in truth a sort of materialization of the Divine memory—a living photographic representation of all that has evjr happened) are really and permanently impressed upon a very much higher level, and are only reflected in a more or less spasmodic manner . on the astral plane; so that one whose power of vision does not rise above this will be likely to obtain only occasional and disconnected pictures of