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THEOSOPHY
DEVACHAN
From the
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founder of modern Theosophy and co-founder of
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
1831-1891
The
Founder of Modern Theosophy
Devachan
By
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Devachan is the state of consciousness which the
Ego eventually reaches after the death of the physical body and when the
desires of the personality have been discarded. It is often referred to by
Theosophists as the second death
This article is a response by H P Blavatsky to a question about this
state
To realize the conditions of spiritual existence of any sort it is
necessary to get above the plane of merely physical perceptions. One cannot see
the things of the spirit with the eyes of the flesh, and one cannot
successfully appreciate subjective phenomena by help only of those fully
appreciate subjective phenomena by help only of those intellectual reflections
which appertain to the physical senses. "How can a conscious existence
without activity or pursuit be one of satisfaction or enjoyment?" It would
only emphasize the mistaken idea which this questions embodies if one were to
ask instead, "how can a conscious existence without athletic sports and
hunting be one of enjoyment?" The cravings of man's animal or even human
nature are not permanent in their character.
The demands of the mind are different from those of the body. In
physical life an ever-recurring desire for change impresses our imagination
with the idea that there can be no continuity of contentment, without variety
of occupation and amusement. To realize completely the way in which a single
vein of spiritual
consciousness may continue for considerable periods of time to engage
the attention - of a spiritual entity, is probably posssible
only for persons who already in life have developed certain inner faculties,
dormant in mankind at large. But meanwhile our present correspondent may
perhaps derive some satisfaction from the fact - as explained in recent essays
on the subject - that one sort of variety is developed in Devachan
to a very high degree; viz. the variety which naturally grows out of the simple
themes set in vibration during life.
Immense growths, for example, of knowledge itself are possible in Devachan, for the spiritual entity which has begun the
"pursuit" of such knowledge during life. Nothing can happen to a
spirit in Devachan, the keynote of which has not been
struck during life; the conditions of a subjective existence are such that the
importation of quite external impulses and alien thoughts is impossible. But
the seed of thought once sown, the current of thoughts once set going (the
metaphor may freely be varied to suit any taste), and then its developments in Devachan may be infinite, for the sixth sense there and the
sixth principle are our instructors; and in such society there can be no
isolation, as physical humanity understands the term. The spiritual ego in
fact, under the tuition of his own sixth principle, need be in no fear of being
dull, and would be as likely to sigh for a doll's house or a box of ninepins as
for the harps and palm leaves of the mediaeval Heaven.
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Defintion of Devachan
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