This section is from the book "The Sacred Book Of Death", by Lauron William De Laurence. Also available from Amazon: The Sacred Book of Death - Hindu Spiritism Soul Transition and Soul Reincarnation.
The elements of the soul of man in their very nature are such that they are a substantial psychic organism which extends throughout the entire physical body, permeating the whole nervous system.
Again the soul of man is strictly a psychic and not a physical organism. Neither is it subject to the ordinary physical laws of dissolution and lies, as such, absolutely without the range of chemical analysis.
The human soul always has and always shall be subject to the conditions and laws of evolution and when the soul ceases to inhabit the body, abandoning its earthly habitation, it changes a condition of its existence; this condition being of no further use for its future progress or future evolution.
The condition of the soul, its desires, powers, the intellectual faculties and their law of action remain the same after the so-called death. In other words, a man, woman or child remain the same whether they exist in the physical body or on the Astral Plane.
Death or soul transition, so much talked of and so little understood by the ordinary individual and western scientists in general, is simply a decided change in the present condition of the soul's existence, but does not in the least affect its essence or actual existence, neither does it interfere with, or in any way affect its organism, faculties, desires or possibilities, and the practical student of Eastern Occultism may accept it as a Sacred Truth, that the lives of men, women and children, whom many speak of as departed spirits, have an actual and real existence after the so-called death.
 
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