Question: Do I understand correctly that paganism is oriented at the astral plane?

Answer: As a whole — yes.

The astral plane is the coarsest non-material spatial dimension. It is inhabited by the grossest of non-incarnate entities.

Occultists studied the astral plane in detail. They, in particular, distinguish seven sub-planes within it, which differ in the degree of their coarseness.

The coarsest sub-plane of the astral plane is that, which is called hell.

After shedding the body, people get into that spatial dimension or its sub-plane, to which they accustomed themselves while living in the body. And this is determined by the emotions dominated during life in the body (subtle or coarse ones), as well as the plane we attuned to. If we attune to God — we get close to Him. If we attune to the astral plane — we get into it.

There are very powerful books of the authors who devoted themselves to research of hell, rather than God. It was hell that interested them, attracted them; so they studied it. Afterwards, they decided to tell other people about it — as about the only actual.

It makes no sense to analyze separate elements of their narration now: what is correct and what is not. Another thing is essential — these books make those who read them attune to hell, attracting them to it. And having gotten in the company of demoniac beings — not everyone manages to get out of there.

I say it once again: those incarnated people who live in attunement to coarseness, in energetically coarse states, are inevitably going to find themselves in hell!

And the last thing — should one read such books? Yes, to reading and to analyze, without getting attuned. One has to know everything! But shrinking from evil and cleaving to good, in the New Testament’s words.