brotherhood, would no longer be deluded by the trappings of earthly
relationships. But the Devachanî, at least in the lower stages, is
still within the personal boundaries of his past earth-life; he is
shut into the relationships of the one incarnation; his paradise is
peopled with those he "_loved best with an undying love, that holy
feeling that alone survives_," and thus the purified personal Ego is
the salient feature, as above said, in the Devachanî. Again quoting
from the "Notes on Devachan":

"_Who goes to Devachan?" The personal Ego, of course; but
beatified, purified, holy. Every Ego--the combination of the
sixth and seventh principles[35]--which after the period of
unconscious gestation is reborn into the Devachan, is of
necessity as innocent and pure as a new-born babe. The fact
of his being reborn at all shows the preponderance of good
over evil in his old personality. And while the Karma [of
Evil] steps aside for the time being to follow him in his
future earth re-incarnation, he brings along with him but the
Karma of his good deeds, words and thoughts into this
Devachan. "Bad" is a relative term for us--as you were told
more than once before--and the Law of Retribution is the only
law that never errs. Hence all those who have not slipped
down into the mire of unredeemable sin and bestiality go to
the Devachan. They will have to pay for their sins, voluntary
and involuntary, later on. Meanwhile they are rewarded;
receive the effects of the causes produced by them._

Now in some people a sense of repulsion arises at the idea that the
ties they form on earth in one life are not to be permanent in
eternity. But let us look at the question calmly for a moment. When a