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The noble and pure-minded man will be able to do this, or he has subdued all earthly passions during life ; the orce of his will has^ been directed into higher channels, ind there is therefore but little energy of lower desire to >e worked out on the astral plane. His stay there will :onsequently be very short, and most probably he will have ittle more than a dreamy halfconsciousness,of existence rntil he 'sinks into the sleep during which hjs higher principles finally free themselves from the astral envelope md enter upon the blissful life of the heavenworld.
For the person who has not as yet entered upon the path of occult development, what has been described is the ideal stdte of affairs, but naturally it is not attained by all, or even by the majority. The average man has by no meahs freed himself from all lower desires before death, and it takes a long period of more or less fully conscious life on the various subdivisions of the astral plane to allow the forces which he has generated to work themselves out, and thus release the higher ego.