the key to theosophy…

“Mr. Old:  What is the impulse which determines the Devachanee to incarnate?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  It is Karma that makes him incarnate. He won’t have more than he deserves; there is no impulse in him, but he dies out, his dream is at an end.

 
Mr. Old:  When a man takes a meal, he satisfies his hunger. When the Devachanee has assimilated the experiences of his past experience, then there is reaction which takes place.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  I think that gives the impression on the mind that the Devachanee is actually desiring reincarnation, which is not the case.

 
Mr. Kingsland:  He has no choice.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  If he did, you do away with one of the first great causes.

 
Mr. Old:  But you must get rid of the sense of individual desire, because the monads have no such desire. Then how would you define that impulse?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  There is no impulse on the part of the Devachanee; it is no impulse at all. Karma takes him by the nape of his neck, and there is no impulse at all, just when a policeman comes and takes yours.

 
Mr. B. Keightley:  In which case, there is a strong impulse to take to your heels and run away.

 
Mr. Burrows:  Does he know that he is going to be reincarnated at all?

 
Mme. Blavatsky: Well, it is a poetical expression.

 
Mr. Sneyd: I think you said it had no effect, in Devachan?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  There is no new effect produced. It has placed the Devachanee into the state of happiness; it gives him is fill of what he deserves and stands and whistles at the door. When that is finished, Karma takes him by the nape of the neck and puts him into the new body.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky