of the _Perfect Way_ put very well the real character of the Shell.

The true "ghost" consists of the exterior and earthly portion
of the Soul, that portion which, being weighted with cares,
attachments, and memories merely mundane, is detached by the
Soul and remains in the astral sphere, an existence more or
less definite and personal, and capable of holding, through a
sensitive, converse with the living. It is, however, but as a
cast-off vestment of the Soul, and is incapable of endurance
_as ghost_. The true Soul and real person, the _anima
divina_, parts at death with all those lower affections
which would have retained it near its earthly haunts.[24]

If we would find our beloved, it is not among the decaying remnants in
Kâmaloka that we should seek them. "Why seek ye the living among the
dead?"


KÂMALOKA. THE ELEMENTARIES.

The word "Elementary" has been so loosely used that it has given rise
to a good deal of confusion. It is thus defined by H.P. Blavatsky:

Properly, the disembodied _souls_ of the depraved; these
souls having, at some time prior to death, separated from
themselves their divine spirits, and so lost their chance for
immortality. But at the present stage of learning it has been
thought best to apply the term to the spooks or phantoms of
disembodied persons, in general to those whose temporary
habitation is the Kâmaloka.... Once divorced from their