Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00271)

Jerry,
You said study material contains writings of Annie Besant and 
Leadbeater. Can you give me the links of pages which I can check.

Anand Gholap 

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@A...> 
wrote:
> 
> " But the amount of consciousness that a person will have upon a 
> given sub-plane does not invariably follow precisely the same law. 
> Let us consider an extreme example of possible variation, in order 
> that we may grasp its method. Suppose a man has brought over from 
his 
> past incarnation tendencies requiring for their manifestation a 
large 
> amount of the matter of the lowest sub-plane, and has in his 
present 
> life been fortunate enough to learn in his earliest years the 
> possibility and the necessity of controlling these tendencies. It 
is 
> improbable that such a man' s efforts at control would be uniformly 
> and entirely successful; but if they were, the substitution of 
finer 
> for grosser particles would progress steadily though slowly. 
> 20. 
This 
> process is at best a gradual one, and it might well happen that the 
> man died before it was half completed. In that case there would 
> undoubtedly be enough matter of the lowest sub-plane left in his 
> astral body to ensure him no inconsiderable residence there; but it 
> would be matter through which in this incarnation his consciousness 
> had never been in the habit of functioning, and, as it could not 
> suddenly acquire this habit, the result would be that the man would 
> rest upon that sub-plane until his share of its matter was 
> disintegrated, but would be all the while in a condition of 
> unconsciousness-- that is, he would practically sleep through the 
> period of his sojourn there, and so would be entirely unaffected by 
> its many disagreeables. 
> 
> 21. It 
> will be seen that both these factors of post-mortem existence-- the 
> sub-plane to which the man is carried and the degree of his 
> consciousness there-- depend not in the least on the nature of his 
> death, but upon the nature of his life, so that any accident, 
however 
> sudden or terrible, can scarcely affect them. Nevertheless, there 
is 
> reason behind the familiar old prayer of the Church: "From sudden 
> death, good Lord, deliver us;" for though a sudden death does not 
> necessarily affect the man's position upon the astral plane in any 
> way for the worse, at least it does nothing to improve it, whereas 
> the slow wasting away of the aged or the ravages of any kind of 
long-
> continued disease are almost invariably accompanied by a 
considerable 
> loosening and breaking up of the astral particles, so that when the 
> man recovers consciousness upon the astral plane, he finds some at 
> any rate of his chief work there already done for him. "
> 
> Complete book can be read at
> http://www.anandgholap.net/Inner_Life_Vol_II-CWL.htm