by CR (075)
We call Inferior Astral the atmospheric layer that encircles Earth. In this layer are the spirits that, while incarnated, were wholly engulfed in materialistic emotions and belonged to all walks of life.
Such emotions are not lacking in the Inferior Astral, which is also an environment pervaded with religious mysticism.
Many of those who deceived their fellow men with promises of heaven and threats of hell are also present in the Inferior Astral. It is the paradise of all materialists and hedonists.
No spirit ever incarnates having in mind the Inferior Astral as a goal. After some delay in the Earth's atmosphere (Inferior Astral), the spirit goes from the Inferior Astral to a spiritual world that corresponds to its level of evolution and only from such spiritual world will it reincarnate.
In the Inferior Astral, the knowledge which spirits possess does not go beyond what they knew while incarnated on Earth. Those that were materialists still cling to this idea, because their environment does not favour a change of opinion.
There they find that there is no God, at least not the God portrayed by religions, which is in fact a Universal Intelligence, not a all powerful individual with the physical and mental characteristics of those who conceived their particular God.
They also realize there is no devil, no hell, no heaven and there are no saints and they scorn those worshippers who are still numb from the influence of their beliefs.
The devout who were educated under the principle of fear, are at first intimidated when they enter the Inferior Astral, because they think about hell and the purgatory.
Next, realizing that they have been deceived, they become disturbed, lose notion of their condition, and enter into a state of complete perplexity. Thus bewildered, they seek the churches, as if in search of a route or a guiding light, as a last resort.
With the passage of time, they become familiar with the environment and establish relations with other disincarnated spirits in the same plight.
It is with no small disillusionment that they see the daydreams built into their minds with the plentiful, suggestive material of religious mysticism vanish into smoke.
Still, so addicted are they to saints and gods, and so deeply rooted is their fear of punishment, that not even in that state of spiritual-awareness are they able to make their atrophied reasoning work to liberate themselves and derive the consequent benefits.
The transformation that the disincarnated spirit sees when it enters the Inferior Astral is relatively small. It realises that it has an astral body similar to the physical body and it sees a picture of earthly life as it was known before.
Expressing itself, like the other disincarnated spirits, by the action of thought, as if it were talking, the spirit can even hear the tone that gives in the impression of hearing its own voice.
This phenomenon is perfectly understandable: each thought has a density of its own, and consequently a special, characteristic, individual sound.
All this leads the disincarnated spirits to adapt themselves to the Inferior Astral. They are unaware of the harm derived from their stay in an environment in which evolution is stagnant. As an aggravating circumstance, smaller or larger liabilities are accumulated for the future, depending on the activity the spirit engaged in, in this environment of low spirituality.
References
[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984
[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese
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