Have, out of pity for mankind and those they left on earth,
renounced the Nirvânic state. Such an Adept, or Saint, or
whatever you may call him, believing it a selfish act to rest
in bliss while mankind groans under the burden of misery
produced by ignorance, renounces Nirvâna and determines to
remain invisible _in spirit_ on this earth. They have no
material body, as they have left it behind; but otherwise
they remain with all their principles even _in astral life_
in our sphere. And such can and do communicate with a few
elect ones, only surely not with _ordinary_ mediums.[52]

(e) _From Adepts now living on earth._ These often communicate with
Their disciples, without using the ordinary methods of communication,
and when any tie exists, perchance from some past incarnation, between
an Adept and a medium, constituting that medium a disciple, a message
from the Adept might readily be mistaken for a message from a
"Spirit". The receipt of such messages by precipitated writing or
spoken words is within the knowledge of some.

(f) _From the medium's Higher Ego._ Where a pure and earnest man or
woman is striving after the light, this upward striving is met by a
downward reaching of the higher nature, and light from the higher
streams downward, illuminating the lower consciousness. Then the lower
mind is, for the time, united with its parent, and transmits as much
of its knowledge as it is able to retain.

From this brief sketch it will be seen how varied may be the sources
from which communications apparently from "the other side of Death"
may be received. As said by H.P. Blavatsky: