Cosmic Spheres and Soul Development After Death

In the book Theosophy there is a description of the passage of the soul after death through the Soul-World. This Soul-World is divided into a region of ‘Burning Desires’ ( Begierdenglut), a region of ‘Flowing Susceptibility’ ( fliessende Reizbarkeit), a region of ‘Wishes’ ( Wunsche), a region of ‘Attraction and Repulsion’ ( Lust und Unlust), and then into the higher regions of ‘Soul-Light’ ( Seelenlicht), of ‘Active Soul-Force’ ( tatige Seelenkraft), and the true ‘Soul-Life’ ( das eigentliche Seelenleben). That was how the Soul-World through which the soul has to pass after death was described. Thereafter the soul has to pass through what is described as the Spiritland and this sphere, too, with its successive regions, is described in the book Theosophy by using certain earthly images: the ‘continental’ region of Spiritland, the ‘oceanic’ region, and so forth.