_There are two fields of causal manifestations: the objective
and the subjective. The grosser energies find their outcome
in the new personality of each birth in the cycle of
evoluting individuality. The moral and spiritual activities
find their sphere of effects in Devachan._

As the moral and spiritual activities are the most important, and as
on the development of these depends the growth of the true Man, and
therefore the accomplishing of "the object of creation, the liberation
of Soul", we may begin to understand something of the vast importance
of the devachanic state.


THE DEVACHANÎ.

When the Triad has shaken off its last garment, it crosses the
threshold of Devachan, and becomes "a Devachanî". We have seen that
it is in a peaceful dreamy state before this passage out of the earth
sphere, the "second death", or "pre-devachanic unconsciousness". This
condition is otherwise spoken of as the "gestation" period, because it
precedes the birth of the Ego into the devachanic life. Regarded from
the earth-sphere the passage is death, while regarded from that of
Devachan it is birth. Thus we find in "Notes on Devachan":

_As in actual earth-life, so there is for the Ego in Devachan
the first flutter of psychic life, the attainment of prime,
the gradual exhaustion of force passing into
semi-consciousness and lethargy, total oblivion, and--not
death but birth, birth into another personality, and the
resumption of action which daily begets new congeries of