Death—and After? eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Death—and After?.

Death—and After? eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Death—and After?.
As in actual earth-life, so there is for the Ego in Devachan the first flutter of psychic life, the attainment of prime, the gradual exhaustion of force passing into semi-consciousness and lethargy, total oblivion, and—­not death but birth, birth into another personality, and the resumption of action which daily begets new congeries of causes that must be worked out in another term of Devachan, and still another physical birth as a new personality.  What the lives in Devachan and upon earth shall be respectively in each instance is determined by Karma, and this weary round of birth must be ever and ever run through until the being reaches the end of the seventh Round, or attains in the interim the wisdom of an Arhat, then that of a Buddha, and thus gets relieved for a Round or two.

When the devachanic entity is born into this new sphere it has passed beyond recall to earth.  The embodied Soul may rise to it, but it cannot be drawn back to our world.  On this a Master has spoken decisively: 

From Sukhavati down to the “Territory of Doubt,” there is a variety of spiritual states, but ... as soon as it has stepped outside the Kamaloka, crossed the “Golden Bridge” leading to the “Seven Golden Mountains,” the Ego can confabulate no more with easy-going mediums.  No Ernest or Joey has ever returned from the Rupa Loka, let alone the Arupa Loka, to hold sweet intercourse with men.

In the “Notes on Devachan,” again, we read: 

Certainly the new Ego, once that it is reborn (in Devachan), retains for a certain time—­proportionate to its earth-life—­a complete recollection “of his life on earth”; but it can never revisit the Earth from Devachan except in Re-incarnation.

The Devachani is generally spoken of as the Immortal Triad, Atma-Buddhi-Manas, but it is well always to bear in mind that

Atman is no individual property of any man, but is the Divine Essence which has no body, no form, which is imponderable, invisible, and indivisible, that which does not exist and yet is, as the Buddhists say of Nirvana.  It only overshadows the mortal; that which enters into him and pervades the whole body being only it’s omni-present rays or light, radiated through Buddhi, its vehicle and direct emanation.[34]

Buddhi and Manas united, with this overshadowing of Atma, form the Devachani; now, as we have seen in studying the Seven Principles, Manas is dual during earth-life, and the Lower Manas is redrawn into the Higher during the kamalokic interlude.  By this reuniting of the Ray and its Source, Manas re-becomes one, and carries the pure and noble experiences of the earth-life into Devachan with it, thus maintaining the past personality as the marked characteristic of the Devachani, and it is in this prolongation of the “personal Ego”, so to speak, that the “illusion” of the Devachani consists.  Were the manasic entity free from all illusion, it

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