is violently thrust out of its element into a new one, before
it is matured and made fit and ready for it._

These, whether suicides or killed by accident, can communicate with
those in earth-life, but much to their own injury. As said above, the
good and innocent sleep happily till the life-period is over. But
where the victim of an accident is depraved and gross, his fate is a
sad one.

_Unhappy shades, if sinful and sensual, they wander about
(not shells, for their connection with their two higher
principles is not quite broken) until their_ death-_hour
comes. Cut off in the full flush of earthly passions which
bind them to familiar scenes, they are enticed by the
opportunities which mediums afford to gratify them
vicariously. They are the Pishâchas, the Incubi and Succubæ
of mediæval times; the demons of thirst, gluttony, lust, and
avarice--Elementaries of intensified craft, wickedness, and
cruelty; provoking their victims to horrid crimes, and
revelling in their commission! They not only ruin their
victims, but these psychic vampires, borne along by the
torrent of their hellish impulses, at last--at the fixed
close of their natural period of life--they are carried out
of the earth's aura into regions where for ages they endure
exquisite suffering and end with entire destruction.

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Now the causes producing the "new being" and determining the
nature of Karma are Trishnâ (Tanhâ)--thirst, desire for