This volume contains three classic life-after-death books: The Life After Death; The Astral Plane; and The Devachanic Plane, or The Heaven World. Combined they provide a detailed and helpful picture of the realms the soul passes through after death. The author, clairvoyant Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934), was a prominent member of the Theosophical Society, and a contemporary of founder Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and her successor Annie Besant. The Astral Plane was considered so important in the history of the Theosophical Society that the Masters of Wisdom requested the manuscript to be sent to the museum of history in the Himalayas, with the following reasoning: "For the first time among occultists, a detailed investigation had been made of the astral plane as a whole, in a manner similar to that in which a botanist in an Amazonian jungle would set to work in order to classify its trees, plants and shrubs, and so write a botanical history of the jungle. For this reason the little book, The Astral Plane, was definitely a landmark, and the Master as Keeper of the Records desired to place its manuscript in the great Museum." During his lifetime Charles Leadbeater wrote 69 books and pamphlets based on his clairvoyant investigations of life, covering topics such as the existence of a loving God, the Masters of Wisdom, what happens after death, immortality of the human soul, reincarnation, karma or the Law of Consequence, development of clairvoyant abilities, the nature of thought forms, dreams, vegetarianism, and Esoteric Christianity. He remains well-known and influential in New Age circles to this day.