Desire

<p>...Desire fading away, the Astral Body dissolves into its original elements, and the entity perishes.</p>

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After a few years, the entity perished—because it had no desire to live without a physical body. And, as surprising as the fact may be to many, it

is true that the majority of persons to‑day have advanced but comparatively little beyond the spiritual plane of the savage. Such people are so tied to physical manifestation and sensual gratification, that life outside of the physical body soon wearies them and fills them with dissatisfaction. They set into motion the “reversal of desire”—the negative pole of the “Will‑to‑Live,”</p>

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A writer reports such an entity as saying

(in a communication from the Astral Plane): “The disembodied learn that the Hades of immortality is the lack of physical body.” Lacking desire to continue disembodied life, and lacking the

Will of Egohood to demand Rebirth—the entity passes away gradually. Just as people in the physical body die for lack of interest, and because they have nothing left to live for—so do disembodied entities on the Astral plane likewise die because they have nothing to live for. Having failed to develop Egohood during physical life, they have nothing left to survive after the dying away of the Body of Desire.</p>

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There is a plane above that of Personality—a

plane in which Positive Will takes the place of Desire. Sovereign Will is above Dominant Desire.</p>