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Try to realize that when a man leaves his physical body and opens his consciousness to astral life , his first sensation is of the intense vividness and reality of that life , so that he thinks ' Now for the first time I know what it is to live ’. But when in turn he leaves that life for the higher one , he exactly repeats the same experience , for this life is in turn so much fuller and wider and more intense than the astral that once more no comparison is possible . And yet there is another life beyond all this ,
“ unto which even this is but as moonlight unto sunlight …
CHARLES LEADBETTER ANNIE BESANT
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