particular person, with whom the dying intensely longs to communicate.
Such a thought, sometimes called a Mayâvi Rûpa, or illusory form

_May be often thrown into objectivity, as in the case of
apparitions after death; but, unless it is projected with the
knowledge of (whether latent or potential), or owing to the
intensity of the desire to see or appear to some one shooting
through, the dying brain, the apparition will be simply
automatical; it will not be due to any sympathetic
attraction, or to any act of volition, any more than the
reflection of a person passing unconsciously near a mirror is
due to the desire of the latter._

When the Soul has left the etheric double, shaking it off as it
shook off the dense body, the double thus left as a mere empty corpse
may be galvanised into an "artificial life"; but fortunately the
method of such galvanisation is known to few.

II. While the Soul is in Kâmaloka. This period is of very variable
duration. The Soul is clad in an astral body, the last but one of its
perishable garments, and while thus clad it can utilise the physical
bodies of a medium, thus consciously procuring for itself an
instrument whereby it can act on the world it has left, and
communicate with those living in the body. In this way it may give
information as to facts known to itself only, or to itself and another
person, in the earth-life just closed; and for as long as it remains
within the terrestrial atmosphere such communication is possible. The
harm and the peril of such communication has been previously
explained, whether the Lower Manas be united with the Divine Triad and
so on its way to Devachan, or wrenched from it and on its way to