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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov

unable to nurture all cellular levels and physical death follows when all the spiritual
bodies have lost compatability with the physical body.

An eruption of energy at the moment of death

ruptures the individual’s protective shield creating
a channel through which the spirit, composed of
the etheric, astral and mental bodies, exits the
physical body (F Fi ig gs s. . 7 70 0 and 7 71 1). The amplitude of
that eruption depends upon the level of spiritual

development reached by the individual at the
moment of death. The higher the level attained
during the lifetime, the higher the planetary
sphere to which one ascends after death. If a
person, through his lifetime, developed to the level
of acquiring mental bodies, he goes to the mental
sphere of the planet (first, second, or third mental

level). If he has completed the Earthly cycle of
evolution and his spirit possesses etheric, astral,
and all four mental bodies, it can penetrate all the
planetary barriers, thus escaping from the
planet and even the solar system. But,

unfortunately, this rarely happens. The
completion of the Earth cycle of evolution is
only the beginning of cosmic evolution.

In the yogic philosophy there is a concept of the
spirit merging with the “Absolute,” the state of
Nirvana, as the highest achievable phase of

spiritual evolution. But, the state where all
qualitative barriers of the Earth disappears
does not signal the end of man’s evolution. It
only means the first cycle of development is
complete and the cosmic cycle of development
can now begin. Standing on the threshold of a

new, qualitatively different level of evolutionary
development, should only inspire growth, not
complacency and self-immobilization. We shall
return to this matter later.

For now, let us explore in more detail what happens to a person at the moment of death.
If, during his life he has acquired only etheric and astral bodies, after death his spirit

moves to the astral plane of the planet. We should stress, however, that the astral level,
itself, has two sub-levels. What are they?

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