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4. The Shade. When the separation of the principles is complete, the astral life of the person is over, and, as
D before stated, he passes into the devachanic condition. But just as when he dies to this plane he leaves his physical body behind him, so when he dies to the astral plane he leaves a disintegrating astral body behind him. -If he has purged himself from all earthly desires during life, and directed all his energies into the channels of unselfish spiritual aspiration, his higher ego will be able to draw back into itself the whole of the lower mind which it put forth into incarnation ; in that case the body left behind on the astral plane will be a mere corpse like the abandoned physical body, and it will then come not into this class but into the next.
Even in the case of a man of somewhat less perfect life almost the same result ihay be attained if the forces of lower desire are allowed to work themselves out undisturbed in the astral plane. But the majority of mankind make but very trifling and perfunctory efforts while on earth to rid themselves of the less