e generally
called Kamadevas, Rupadevas, and Arupadevas respectively. Just as our
ordinary body here--the lowest body possible for us--is the physical,
so the ordinary body of a Kamadeva is the astral; so that he stands in
somewhat the same position as humanity will do when it reaches planet
F, and he, living ordinarily in an astral body, would go out of it to
higher spheres in a Mayavirupa just as we might in an astral body,
while to enter the Karana Sharira would be to him (when sufficiently
developed) no greater effort than to form a Mayavirupa is to us. In
the same way the Rupadeva's ordinary body would be the Mayavirupa,
since his habitat is on the four lower or rupa levels of that
spiritual state which we usually call Devachan: while the Arupadeva
belongs to the three higher levels of that plane, and owns no nearer
approach to a body than the Karana Sharira. But for Rupa and
Arupadevas to manifest on the astral plane is an occurrence at least
as rare as it is for astral entities to materialize on this physical
plane, so we need do no more than mention them now. As regards the
lowest division--the Kamadevas--it would be quite a mistake to think
of all of them as immeasurably superior to ourselves, since some have
entered their ranks from a humanity in some respects less advanced
than our own; of course the general average among them is much higher
than among us, for all that is actively or wilfully evil has long been
weeded out from their ranks; but they differ widely in disposition,
and a really noble, unselfish, spiritually-minded man may well stand
higher in the scale of evolution than some of them. Their attention
can be attracted by certain magical evocations, but the only human
will which can dominate theirs is that of a certain high class of
Adepts. As a rule they seem scarcely conscious of us on our physical
plane, but it does now and then happen that one of them becomes aware
of some human difficulty which excites his pity, and he perhaps
renders some assistance, just as any of us would try to help an animal
that we saw in trouble. But it is well understood among them that any
interference in human affairs at the present stage is likely to do far
more harm than good. Above the Arupadevas there are four other great
divisions, and again, above and beyond the Deva kingdom altogether,
stand the great hosts of the DHYAN CHOHANS, but the consideration of
such glorified Beings would be out of place in an essay on