“Mr. Kingsland: There is a question which might be put with reference to very wicked people who don’t go into Devachan.
Mme. Blavatsky: They are born almost immediately after a kind of sleep in which they won’t have very nice dreams.
Mr. Kingsland: That is what I wanted to say.
Mme. Blavatsky: There is nothing, you see, like Devachan; there is Avichi, but that is quite a different thing.
Mr. Kingsland: In the state of Kamaloka.
Mme. Blavatsky: There it is no more the man, the entire man. He has been left and abandoned by one of his principles, he has no more of the Atma over him; he has simply his intelligence and his consciousness.
That is why I say those creatures that you see in the seance rooms are so very dangerous. It is not the man, it is the shadow of the man, and his reflection; but with all the wickedness and with all the wicked influences, the utmost fear of all that which he has committed in this life. And certainly he will inoculate it in those present as though a living man came with the smallpox and gave it to you all. All this idea of spiritualism is perfectly ridiculous.
Mr. Old: Then Karma does not operate, or has no active operation, only a reflex operation, in Devachan?
Mme. Blavatsky: Merely sends a man into Devachan and stops on the threshold. Allegorically speaking, it waits when the man comes out of the state of bliss, during which he will be rewarded for all the unmerited suffering and all the things he had – for after all, a man is a very miserable creature. A man does not want to be born, and does not know he is born.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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