Death—and After? by Annie Wood Besant
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Devachan; identity of molecular vibration is established, and
for a brief space the sensitive becomes the departed personality, and writes in its handwriting, uses its language, and thinks its thoughts. At such times sensitives may believe that those with whom they are for the moment _en rapport_ descend to earth and communicate with them, whereas, in reality, it is merely their own spirits which, being correctly attuned to those others, are for the time blended with them.[50] In a special case under examination, H.P. Blavatsky said that the communication might have come from an Elementary, but that it was Far more likely that the medium's spirit really became _en rapport_ with some spiritual entity in Devachan, the thoughts, knowledge, and sentiments of which formed the substance, while the medium's own personality and pre-existing ideas more or less governed the forms of the communication.[51] While these communications are not reliable in the facts and opinions stated, We would remark that it may _possibly_ be that there really is a distinct spiritual entity impressing our correspondent's mind. In other words, there may, for all we know, be some spirit, with whom his spiritual nature becomes habitually, for the time, thoroughly harmonised, and whose thoughts, language, &c., become his for the time, the result being that this spirit seems to communicate with him.... It is possible |
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