This section is from the book "Life in the Great Beyond or the Law of Life and Death", by A. Victor Segno. Also available from Amazon: Life in the great beyond; or, The law of life and death.
The souls that reach the earth during the later part of October and the first half of November come from Ahpo. These people are distinguished by their determined, commanding nature. They seem so out of their element on the earth that they suffer strange vicissitudes of fortune. They scarcely surmount one difficulty or push through one obstruction before they are confronted by another. Their paths lead into channels of stormy adventure. They are constantly conceiving new ideas and advancing new schemes, and the larger the scheme the better they like it and the harder they work for it. They turn toward the fortunes of war and the stock exchange as naturally as the needle of the compass turns to the North. They are natural gamblers and usually fortunate in all games of chance. Whatever they undertake they must be at the head of it. They must lead in their own way. They do not attempt to force their convictions on others, for they are too busy directing their own course. In a controversy, however, they display a provoking tenacity and maintain their point right or wrong. The women have more sensitive domestic tendencies than the men and are more constant. Like the men, however, they fret under restraint and harbor an innate aversion to law and conventionality. This intolerance of the tie that binds renders any successful attempt at matrimony almost impossible.
There is always a tendency to drift toward places of fire, blood and tragedy and the close of their first period on the earth is likely to be as tragic as the beginning. They often succumb to narcotics and intoxicants.
 
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