Excerpt from The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena No one can get a clear conception of the teachings of the wisdom-religion until he has at any rate an intellectual grasp' of the fact that in our solar system there exist per fectly definite planes, each with its own matter of different degrees of density, and that some of these planes can be Visited and observed by persons who have qualified them selves for the work, exactly as a foreign country might be visited and observed; and that, by comparison of the observations of those who are constantly working on these planes, evidence can be obtained of their existence and nature at least as satisfactory as that which most of us have for the existence of Greenland or Spitzbergen. Further more, just as any man who has the means and chooses to take the trouble can go and see Greenland or Spitz bergen for himself, so any man who chooses to take the trouble to qualify himself by living the necessary life, can in time come to see these higher planes on his own account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.