come down to them on earth, while it is their own spirits
that are raised towards those in the Devachan._[47]

This attraction can be exercised by the departed Soul from Kâmaloka or
from Devachan:

A "spirit" or the spiritual Ego, cannot _descend_ to the
medium, but it can _attract_ the spirit of the latter to
itself, and it can do this only during the two
intervals--before and after its "gestation period". Interval
the first is that period between the physical death and the
merging of the spiritual Ego into that state which is known
in the Arhat Esoteric Doctrine as "Bar-do". We have
translated this as the "gestation period", and it lasts from
a few days to several years, according to the evidence of the
Adepts. Interval the second lasts so long as the merits of
the old [personal] Ego entitle the being to reap the fruit of
its reward in its new regenerated Egoship. It occurs after
the gestation period is over, and the new spiritual Ego is
reborn--like the fabled Phoenix from its ashes--from the
old one. The locality which the former inhabits is called by
the northern Buddhist Occultists "Devachan."[48]

So also may the incorporeal principles of pure sensitives be placed
_en rapport_ with disembodied Souls, although information thus
obtained is not reliable, partly in consequence of the difficulty of
transferring to the physical brain the impressions received, and
partly from the difficulty of observing accurately, when the seer is
untrained.[49]