It is in this - during such a condition of complete Maya - that the souls or Astral Egos of pure, loving sensitives, laboring under the same delusion, think their loved ones come down to them on earth, while it is their own spirits that are raised towards those in the Devachan.

"Yes, there are great varieties in the Devachan states, and all find their appropriate place. As many varieties of bliss as on Earth there are of perception and of capability to appreciate snch reward. It is an ideal paradise; in each case of the Ego's own making, and by him filled with the scenery, crowded with the incidents, and thronged with the people he wonld expect to find in such a sphere of compensative bliss. And it is that variety which guides the temporary personal Ego into the current which will lead him to be reborn in a lower or higher condition in the next world of causes. Everything is so harmoniously arranged in nature - especially in the subjective world - that no mistake can be ever committed by the Tathagatos who guide the impulses.

"Devachan is a spiritual condition' only as contrasted with our own grossly material condition; and, as already stated, it is such degrees of spirituality that constitute and determine the great varieties of conditions within the limits of Devachan. A mother from a savage tribe is not less happy than a mother from a royal palace, with her lost child in her arms; and altho', as actual Egos, children prematurely dying before the perfection of their septenary entity do not find their way to Devachan, yet all the same, the mother's loving fancy finds her children there without one missing that her heart yearns for. Say it is but a dream; but, after all, what is objective life itself but a panorama of vivid unrealities? The pleasure realized by a red Indian in his 'happy hunting grounds' in that land of dreams is not less intense than the ecstacy felt by a connoisseur who passes aeons in the rapt delight of listening to divine symphonies by imaginary angelic choirs and orchestras. As it is no fault of the former if born a 'savage' with an instinct to kill - tho' it caused the death of many an innocent animal - why, if with it all he was a loving father, son, husband - why should he not also enjoy his share of reward? The case would be quite different if the same cruel acts had been done by an educated and civilized person, from a mere love of sport.

The savage in being reborn would simply take a low place in the scale, by reason of his imperfect moral development; while the Karma of the other would be tainted with moral delinquency.

"Remember, that we ourselves create our Devachan, as also our Avitchi, while yet on earth, and mostly during the latter days and even moments of our intellectual sentient lives. That feeling which is strongest in us at that supreme hour, when, as in a dream, the events of a long life to their minutest details are marshalled in the greatest order in a few seconds in our vision,* that feeling will become the fashioner of our bliss or woe, the life-principle of our future existence. In the latter we have no substantial being, but only a present and momentary existence, whose duration has no bearing upon, no effect nor relation to, its being, which, as every other effect of a transitory cause, will be as fleeting, and in its turn will vanish and cease to be. The real, full remembrance of our lives will come, but at the end of the minor cycle - not before......

* That vision takes place when a person is already proclaimed dead. The brain is the last organ that dies.

"Unless a man loves well, or hates well, he need not trouble himself about Devachan; he will be neither in Devachan nor Avitchi. 'Nature spews the lukewarm out of her mouth' means only that she annihilates their personal Egos (not the Shells, nor yet the 6th Principle) in the Kama Loca and the Devachan. This does not prevent them from being immediately reborn, and if their lives were not very, very bad, there is no reason why the eternal Monad should not find the page of that life intact in the Book of Life."

In Kama Loca there is no entity after the separation of the three higher Principles, as described, has taken place. Ordinarily, the interval required for this separation is of brief duration, as compared with the following period in Devachan. But we can easily see that a soul which has lived entirely on the material plane, which has created strong affinities for the grossly physical pleasures of life, will find itself unable to enter the devachanic sleep until these have loosened their hold. When this separation is completed, however, this which was an entity becomes a nonentity. As the Key says:

"Then the kamarupic phantom, remaining bereft of its informing, thinking principle, the higher Manas, and the lower aspect of the latter, the animal intelligence, no longer receiving light from the higher mind, and no longer having a physical brain to work through, collapses. It falls into the state of a frog when certain portions of its brain are taken out by the vivisector. It can think no more, even on the lowest animal plane."

It is in a condition similar to a permanently hypnotized man. The intelligence which animated it is withdrawn. It is a mere bundle of desires and passions, slowly disintegrating, or changing into "skandhas," or effects, waiting to attach themselves to the new personality which the Higher Ego enters upon reincarnating. If it float, or is attracted into the aura of a "medium," it may be galvanized into apparent consciousness; but this is only apparent. Just as a hypnotized person will obey the will and reflect the thoughts of the hypnotizer, being at the same time utterly unconscious of that which he is doing, so may these "shells," as they are termed, reflect information or opinions from the mind of the medium, or of any person present.

Still there is a Kama Loca entity, proper, which is the "lost soul," to which reference has been made. As we have seen, there may be those who have evolved no possibilities of a continued life in Devachan, with its succeeding reincarnation. Cultivating none but Kama Loca affinities during physical life, the soul finds itself irresistibly drawn downwards to this zone after death, leaving nothing to enter Devachan. Its consciousness, therefore, remains in Kama Loca, an actual, though evil, entity. Such a soul partakes so closely of the earth condition that it is semi-if not wholly, conscious of itself and of its state, especially when it is able to approximate still more closely the earth consciousness through the aura of a medium. This being realizes that he has nothing before him but the certainty of eternal extinction, and clings to his Kama Loca life with all the tenacity of a drowning man to the handful of earth he has grasped in slipping down the banks of the fatal stream. He it is who haunts "circles," and renews his fading stock of vitality from the life forces of his admiring and unconscious victims. It is he who materializes; who preaches mock sentimental morality, while compelling his medium to practice exactly the reverse.