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The only persons who would normally awake to consciousness on the lowest level of the astral plane are those whose desires are gross and brutal — drunkards, sensualists, and such like. There they would remain for a period proportioned to the strength of'their desires, often suffering terribly from the fact that while these earthly lusts are still as strong as ever, they now find it impossible to gratify them, except occasionally in a vicarious manner when they are able to seize upon Some likeminded person, and obsess him.
The ordinarily decent man would probably have little to detain him on that seventh sub-plane ; but if his chief desires and thoughts had centred in mere worldly affairs, he would be likely to find himself in the sixth subdivision, still hovering about the;places and persons with which he was most closely connected while on earth. The fifth and • the fourth sub-planes are of similar chapter, except that as we rise through them mere earthly associations appear to become of less and less importance, and the departed tends more and more to mould his surroundings into agreement with the more persistent of his